Total number of FOI responses released and published: FOI release
- Published
- 13 November 2018
- Directorate
- Constitution Directorate
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Date received: 29 October 2018
Date responded: 13 November 2018
You asked for:
With reference to FOI/18/02983, the Scottish Government “aim is to publish information {responses to FOI requests} on the same day as the response to the FOI is released.”
For the months of:
August 2018
September 2018
October 2018
Please provide, for each month (A) the total number of FOI responses released; and (B) the number of FOI responses published on the same day as the FOI release.
The answer to the part of your question referenced (A) is:
August 2018 – 239
September 2018 – 274
Up to 29 October 2018 – 410
The information you have requested referenced (B) is available from the Publications folder on www.gov.scot – more specifically: https://www.gov.scot/publications/?publicationTypes=foi-eir-release&begin=01/08/2018&end=29/10/2018&page=1.
You can compile the information that you have requested by comparing the publication date with the release date on the website.
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. We have no business need (or legal duty) to collate such information, therefore we do not do so.
The Scottish Government is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests. View all FOI responses at http://www.gov.scot/foi-responses
Contact
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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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