Freedom of Information and Written Questions: Costs — Written Question

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how are aggregate disproportionate cost thresholds reviewed for (a) written Parliamentary Questions and (b) Freedom of Information Act requests; how often do these reviews take place; and on what dates have chan

Answer

Ms Abena Oppong-Asare

The Guide to Parliamentary Work, which is published online and available here, sets out that there is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written questio...

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