The average time taken to complete an FOI request was 7 hours 22 minutes. The annual cost of registered cases and annual costs of the FOI Unit in 2009 came to a 16 Given all the above, and the wide divergence of costs combined cost of £409,465. which have been reported, £200 is a reasonable figure accepting that for many organisations the cost will be significantly less and that the Scottish Government’s figures may be higher on current day prices unless they have found ways to reduce costs with new technology. 26.