To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many requests his Department received under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in 2008; and how many of those were answered within 20 working days. (269881)

Quarterly and annual statistics on freedom of information requests received by a number of central Government monitored bodies (including all Departments of state) are published by the Ministry of Justice on their website:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/freedomof informationquarterly.htm

Statistics for the first three quarters of 2008 are available on the above website and the fourth quarter will be published in due course.