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Department for Work and Pensions: Freedom of Information |
| Question ID: |
1759946 |
| UIN: |
27388 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5161 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Richard Tice
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Richard Tice
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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 of |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-06 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4979 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Western
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| Answering Member handle: |
andrewhwestern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@andrewhwestern
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Department does not keep this information centrally and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs. This is because, whilst all Freedom of Information (FOI) requests are cleared by a central team, depending on the nature of the request, any memb... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |