Public bodies answer four in five FOI requests on time, says commissioner
A new Information Commissioner dashboard shows 82 per cent of requests met the 20-day deadline last quarter, with five bodies handling two-thirds of all queries.
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Four in five Freedom of Information requests made to public bodies on the island have been answered on time this year, the Information Commissioner has said.
The commissioner’s office has launched a dashboard showing the most recent figures on requests submitted to public bodies, 3FM reported on 28 October.
For the last quarter, the data shows 82 per cent of requests received a response within the 20-day statutory limit. According to 3FM, that was seven per cent below the average for the past two years.
The figures also show that requests are concentrated among a small number of organisations. Five bodies account for two-thirds of all FOI queries:
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