Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average response rate was of his Department to individual Freedom of Information requests in each month since July 2016.

Freedom of Information statistics are Official Statistics and are governed by the standards set out by the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) in their Code of Practice. To publish information outside of the release timetable would be a breach of Protocol 2 of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

The latest Freedom of Information statistics were published in December 2016 and are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/freedom-of-information-statistics-july-to-september-2016--2