Freedom of Information (FOI) reporting

Performance and response time information regarding our handling of Freedom of Information requests.


Monthly Performance Statistics

In April 2017 following a dip in performance regarding the number of FOI requests and reviews responded to on time, the Scottish Information Commissioner initiated an intervention process.

We are committed to improving FOI response times and are working to address the Commissioner's concerns.

We have agreed the following targets with the Commissioner to improve performance:

  • a target of 85% of request and review responses on time over the rest of 2017
  • 90% in 2018
  • 95% by 2019

Monthly performance will be pro-actively published below.

  Requests * Reviews *
2017 - -
April  62% 65%
May 70% 20%
June  89% 88%
July  94% 71%
August 89% 79%
September  92% 91%
October  87% 69%
November  80% 95%
December  93% 92%
2018 - -
January  94% 73%
February  93% 75%
March  88% 92%
April  95% 86%
May  93% 90%
June  94% 97%
July  94% 96%
August  92% 71%
September  89% 86%
October  89% 88%
November  86% 61%
December      89% 85%
2019 - -
January  87% 74%
February 91% 96%
March  92% 78%
April 92% 86%
May 92% 89%
June 90% 90%
July 94% 79%
August 96% 63%
September 95% 100%
October 98% 96%
November 94% 95%
December 97% 86%
2020 - -
January 97% 100%
February 97% 100%
March 95% 87%
April 90% 64%
May 58% 43%
June 79% 78%
July 81% 83%
August 83% 83%
September 84% 81%
October 84% 71%
November 85% 80%
December 84% 70%
2021 - -
January 88% 79%
February 84% 73%
March 85% 76%
April  86% 81%
May  87% 84%
June 88% 91%
July 89% 79%
August 89% 83%
September 82% 75%
October 79% 66%
November 90% 76%
December 90% 79%
2022 - -
January 88% 76%
February 84% 63%
March 88% 66%
April 78% 83%
May 86% 74%
June 84% 44%
July 90% 83%
August 88% 68%
September  85% 78%
October 85% 61%
November 87% 59%
December  86% 71%
2023 - -
January 86% 70%
February 74% 52%
March 85% 60%
April  87% 61%
May 87% 87%
June 97% 91%
July  98% 83%
August 95% 88%
September 97% 93%
October 98% 89%
November 96% 94%
December 98% 98%
2024 - -
January 97% 94%

 

*% of responses answered on time

Information request handling: annual reports

We publish annual reports on the handling of information requests.  Previous published annual reports can be accessed at the following links:

Previous FOI reporting information can be found in our archive.

Contact

Please quote the FOI reference

Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

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