Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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.

FOI response times are monitored centrally by the Cabinet Office and published quarterly on the Gov.uk website.

Within the 2022-23 financial year, the percentage of requests answered within statutory deadlines did not fall below 85%, which we would assess as adequate.