Question follow-through · 27392
Home Office: Freedom of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests related to police forces in England and Wales; and if she will make an estimate of the annua
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 7 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests related to police forces in England and Wales; and if she will make an estimate of the annua
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Home Office does not centrally hold this information.Each police force is a separate public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act and is responsible for processing and responding to requests they receive.However, we agree with t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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