Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many freedom of information requests have been submitted to his Department since July 2016; how many such requests the Department has responded to; how many such requests the Department has responded to within 20 working days; and for what number of days the longest outstanding request has been awaiting response.

Details of the Department for International Trade’s handling of requests under the Freedom of Information Act from the Department’s formation until 30 September 2016 will be published by the Cabinet Office later this year on www.Gov.uk. Statistics for quarter four of the year (October – December 2016) will be published at the same location in the New Year.

As official statistics, disclosure of the information prior to its publication is prohibited by the Statistics and Registration Services Act 2007 and the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.