To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of freedom of information requests received by her Department gave rise to responses that were published by her Department in 2008-09. (269688)

The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly statistics on the number of FOI requests received by central Government Departments, the most recent of which relate to the third quarter (July to September) of 2008. The statistics show that during the period April to September 2008, the Home Office received 1,019 requests, of which 394 resulted in a full or partial release of information.

82 (8 per cent. of the number of requests received) of these responses have been published in the Freedom of Information disclosure log on the Department's website.