Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the average time taken by his Department to respond to freedom of information requests in the 2022-23 financial year.

Freedom of Information (FOI) performance for all central government departments and other monitored bodies can be found on gov.uk at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics.

A performance recovery plan was implemented during 2022. Subsequently, we have exceeded the 90 percent expectation of responding to FOI requests within 20 working days in each month during 2023.