Question follow-through · 27390
Ministry of Defence: Freedom of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in his Department are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests; and if he will make an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse of this work.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 7 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in his Department are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests; and if he will make an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse of this work.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence (MOD), due to its size and complexity, does not operate a central team responsible for answering all Freedom of Information (FOI) requests received by the Department nor is there a central budget for handling FOI requests. Every bu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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