Publication - FOI/EIR release

FOI requests declined due to unreasonable costs: FOI release

Published: 3 January 2018
Directorate: Constitution Directorate
Topic: Constitution and democracy, Public sector

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

FOI reference: FOI/17/02992
Date received: 9 December 2017
Date responded: 22 December 2017

Information requested

In each of the last three years, what proportion of FOI requests made to the Scottish Government and its associated agencies have been declined on the basis that fulfilling the requests would incur unreasonable costs?

Response

All of the information you have requested is detailed in the table below:

Year	FOI Requests Total Number	Number of requests where upper cost limit applied under Section 12 of FOISA	Percentage
2015	2155	107	4,9%
2016	2103	71	3 %
2017 (to 9th December)	2948	129	4,3%

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Contact

Please quote the FOI reference

Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

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