FOI requests that carried charges of over £50: FOI release

FOI reference: FOI/17/02934
Date received: 13 November 2017
Date responded: 7 December 2017

Information requested

• Within the following years how many FOI inquiries did you receive and what percentage of these carried a financial invoice/charge? The years being 2014,2015,2016,2017 (to date).

• Regarding the FOI inquiries during 2014,2015,2016, 2017 (to date) confirm the total Foi handled is as per the answers above and advise what percentage of these annual totals carried charges of over £50 and if there is a balance between the nil charge and over £50 please advise what percentage this figure represents of the total i.e. nil to £49.99.

Response

The number of requests received are as follows:

Year	No Requests
2014	2061
2015	2155
2016	2103
2017 (to 13/11/17)	2261

None of these requests carried a financial invoice/charge. Therefore 0% of the annual total requests carried charges over £50 or between nil to £49.99.

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