Freedom of Information Data

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Questions (418)

John McGuinness

Question:

418. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number that were fully or partially granted; and the number of requests that were refused. [51844/17]

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Written answers

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

As of 30 November, my Department has received 368 requests under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. Data in respect of these FOI requests are set out in the following table. Full or partial refusals were based on the exemptions in the Act.

Number of FOI Requests	Granted	Part Granted	Refused	Withdrawn/Responded to outside of FOI	Transferred	Being processed
368	108	96	49	46	8	61