Freedom of Information: Complaints Mr. Hancock To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many complaints under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 have been awaiting allocation to a case officer of the Information Commissioner’s Offices (ICO) for (a) three months, (b) six months, (c) nine months and (d) longer, broken down by ICO (i) regional offices and (ii) teams; and if she will make a statement. Ms Harman As of 31 March 2007 the number of complaints under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 awaiting allocation to a case officer at the Information Commissioner’s Office, broken down by time and team, was as detailed in the following table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Time period/team |Belfast|Cardiff|Team 1|Team 2|Team 3|Team 4|Team 5|Team 6|Total| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |0 to three months |8 |19 |23 |15 |51 |25 |65 |36 |242 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Three to six months|3 |0 |9 |23 |19 |19 |21 |27 |121 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Six to nine months |1 |0 |12 |20 |18 |18 |11 |23 |103 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Nine months + |15 |0 |12 |37 |37 |6 |8 |32 |147 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total for team |27 |19 |56 |95 |125 |68 |105 |118 |613 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- |Sector |Team name| ----------------------------------------- |Health and Transport |Team 1 | ----------------------------------------- |Education, Police and Justice|Team 2 | ----------------------------------------- |Central Government 1 |Team3 | ----------------------------------------- |Local Government 1 (North) |Team 4 | ----------------------------------------- |Local Government 2 (South) |Team 5 | ----------------------------------------- |Central Government Millbank |Team 6 | -----------------------------------------