Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library (a) the number of Freedom of Information requests received by each Government Department in each of the last four years, (b) the number and proportion of such requests that received a full answer from each Department and (c) the number and proportion of such requests which did not receive a full answer in each category of reason for refusal in each Department.

The Government publishes detailed statistics on freedom of information requests received by central government departments quarterly and annually. These include the number of requests received by government departments, the number of requests which received a full answer and the number which did not receive a full answer. The statistics for the last four years can be found on the following web addresses:

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/freedom-of-information-statistics-October-December-2013-and-annual (for 2013 Annual);

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/freedom-of-information-statistics-October-December-2012-and-annual (for 2012 Annual);

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/earlier-editions-statistics-on-implementation-in-central-government-earlier-editions-in-the-series (for 2011 Annual and 2010 Annual)