Cabinet Office: Freedom of Information
(asked on 14th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many hours his Department spent on processing freedom of information requests in each of the last 24 months.
This question was answered on 22nd September 2015
The estimated cost of the central processing of FoI requests at the Cabinet Office is £381,760.89. This includes the costs associated with the central operational and legal teams coordinating and advising on FOI requests across the department. It does not include litigation costs or the costs outside the central team as handling FoI requests is part of other civil servants’ wider duties and the detailed information requested is not separately identifiable.