Northern Ireland Office: Freedom of Information
(asked on 14th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many hours her Department spent on processing freedom of information requests in each of the last 24 months.
This question was answered on 21st September 2015
The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has provided a Shared FOI Service along with the Wales Office since September 2014. The FOI Team consists of one full-time member of NIO staff and three part-time members of Wales Office staff, who together contribute 0.4 FTE (full-time equivalent). Man hours spent on this area of work are not measured on a monthly basis; the Departments have allocated 1.4 staff who are responsible for this area of work.