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GOV.UK Published FOI Responses

12,400 published responses 108 organisations Q1 2026 latest stats period 85.5% avg on-time rate

Published Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulations responses from central government. Each entry is a public question answered and published by a government body.

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VAT refund schemes for Government departments

10 Nov 2017HM Treasury

A request for correspondence from HM Treasury to HM Customs and Excise in 1983 and 1984 which relates to the introduction of the VAT Refund Direction.

Sources: GOV.UK Search API (filter_content_store_document_type=foi_release) and Cabinet Office / MoJ FOI Statistics CSV. Content published under Open Government Licence v3.0. Browse on GOV.UK →

Responses by year

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Published FOI and EIR responses by year · selected publishers and organisations
Publication year	Published responses
2010	19
2011	18
2012	5
2013	14
2014	5
2015	2
2016	20
2017	28
2018	16
2019	9
2021	10
2022	4
2023	1
2024	2

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Top publishers

By volume of published responses

Home Office 1,648

Foreign & Commonwealth Office 1,159

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs 1,032

Highways England 742

Civil Nuclear Police Authority 686

Department of Energy & Climate Change 599

Office of the Secretary of State for Wales 593

Driving Standards Agency 518

FOI timeliness — Q1 2026

Cabinet Office quarterly statistics · 2,654 data points

Best on-time rates

Debt Management Office

100.0%

Serious Fraud Office

100.0%

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

99.0%

Wales Office

96.8%

Charity Commission

96.6%

Lowest on-time rates

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

50.0%

Health and Safety Executive

63.0%

Department for Business and Trade

67.0%

Cabinet Office

69.9%

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

73.6%