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Quarterly Information Request Statistics 2010

Q1 = Jan - Mar; Q2 = Apr - Jun; Q3 = Jul - Sep; Q4 = Oct - Dec

*	Statistic Description	2010 Q1	2010 Q2	2010 Q3	2010 Q4
a	Total requests received	224	189	195	182
b	Processed	215	177	191	177
c	On-hold or lapsed	7	9	4	4
d	Still being processed	2	2	0	2
e	Number handled under Environment Information Regulations	14	17	32	18
f	Number handled under Data Protection Act 1998	10	10	8	8
g	Total received excluding EIR, DPA & on-hold or lapsed	190	172	175	159
h	20-day deadline met	190	170	175	158
i	Permitted extension applied	0	0	1	1
j	Late response	0	2	0	1
k	Percentage of requests meeting deadline	100%	98.83%	100%	98.75%
l	Percentage of requests completed in-time	100%	98.83%	100%	99.37%
m	Requests where advice and assistance provided	1	0	1	0
n	Requests where information not held	12	14	15	7
o	Total resolvable requests	203	171	171	174
p	Granted in full	167	152	154	156
q	Partially withheld	18	8	6	4
r	Fully withheld	18	19	11	12
s	Response not yet provided	2	2	0	1
t	Percentage of resolvable requests granted in full	82.3%	88.89%	90.05%	89.65%
u	Percentage of resolvable requests withheld in full	8%	11.11%	6.43%	6.89%
v	Total number of requests attracting one or more exemptions or exceptions	36	27	17	16

Number of requests processed where each exemption (listed in Part II of FoI Act) was applied:

Number	Exemption Description	2010 Q1	2010 Q2	2010 Q3	2010 Q4
21	Accessible by other means	7	7	4	6
22	Intended for future publication	4	0	1	1
30	Investigations and proceedings	0	0	0	0
36	Prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs	2	2	5	1
39	Environmental information	0	0	0	0
40	Personal information	10	4	1	0
41	Information provided in confidence	1	1	0	0
42	Legal professional privilege	1	0	1	2
43	Commercial interests	1	0	2	0

Number of requests processed where each exception (listed in Part 3 of EIRs) was applied:

Section	Exception Description	2010 Q1	2010 Q4
3(a)	Exempt personal information	0	0
4(b)	Manifestly unreasonable	0	1
4(c)	Too general	0	0
4(d)	Work in progress / incomplete data	0	0
4(e)	Internal communications	0	0
5(a)	Adverse effect on international relations, defence, national security, public safety	0	0
5(b)	Adverse effect on course of justice or conduct of enquiries	0	0
5(c)	Adverse effect on intellectual property rights	0	0
5(d)	Impinges on confidentiality of a public authority's work	0	0
5(e)	Impinges on confidentiality of commercial or industrial information	0	1
5(f)	Adverse effect on interests of person who provided the information	1	0
5(g)	Adverse effect on protection of environment to which information relates	0	0