Departmental Freedom of Information

Sarah Teather
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 his Department received in 2008; and how many of these received a substantive response within 20 days.

Barbara Follett
The information requested can be found in tables 1 and 2 of the Ministry of Justice's Report ‘Annual Statistics on the Operation of the FoI Act in Central Government, 2008’. This can be located at:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/docs/foi-statistics-report-2008.pdf