Chamber and committees

Question reference: S5W-14205

Asked by: Clare Haughey, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: 30 January 2018
Current status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 5 February 2018

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many FOI requests it (a) received, (b) answered and (c) answered on time in each month in 2017, also broken down by type of requester.

Answer

a) Number of requests received in 2017

January	221
February	243
March	314
April	236
May	187
June	284
July	254
August	242
September	205
October	416
November	293
December	151

b) Number of requests answered each month in 2017

January	165
February	208
March	297
April	202
May	240
June	233
July	284
August	224
September	198
October	246
November	355
December	278

c) Number of were answered on time each month in 2017

January	176	79%
February	166	76%
March	204	77%
April	168	64%
May	174	70%
June	170	89%
July	256	94%
August	214	89%
September	189	92%
October	212	87%
November	291	80%
December	230	93%

The Scottish Government issued answers to 355 requests in November, which was 43% more than the monthly average since the Commissioner’s intervention began in April, of 248.

d) Requests lodged each month of 2017 broken down by type of requester

	Elected representative	Individual	Media	Organisation	Other	Researcher	Solicitor
January	5	94	51	30	3	28	10
February	11	122	33	27	1	39	10
March	7	132	22	42	7	97	7
April	5	109	34	27	2	54	5
May	2	98	47	18	1	13	8
June	25	103	39	36	10	61	10
July	20	114	40	33	5	31	11
August	5	115	47	34	7	30	4
September	8	89	26	24	6	41	11
October	7	118	44	25	5	204	12
November	10	106	43	22	6	98	8
December	5	66	22	21	4	27	6
Total	110	1266	448	339	57	723	102

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