Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the (a) average and (b) maximum length of time taken by his Department is to carry out a public interest case to determine whether certain information will be disclosed in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The Government publishes annual statistics on Freedom of Information on GOV.UK, including detailed statistics on public interest cases. This includes information relating to DCMS. Please see the latest annual figures for 2014 at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/freedom-of-information-statistics-october-to-december-2014-and-annual