Home Office: Freedom of Information — Written Question

Question

Richard Tice

Reform UK — Boston and Skegness

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests; and if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse o

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

The Home Office has a central team consisting of 13.7 FTEs managing FOI requests and related appeals work. The annual salaries paid to this group of staff were approximately £663K in the year ending September 2024.To determine precisely how many staff are...

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