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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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Compulsory licences for patents or design right (unregistered)

29 Aug 2018Intellectual Property Office

Information about licences of right (LORs).

Request for compulsory licences

26 Apr 2018Intellectual Property Office

Request for number of compulsory licences granted in 2017 under EC Regulation 816/2006.

Compulsory licences

20 Apr 2017Intellectual Property Office

Request for information about applications for compulsory licences.

Applications for extended collective licences in the UK

4 Nov 2016Intellectual Property Office

Request for information on any applications for extended collective copyright licences.

Registration of sub-licences of IP rights

12 Feb 2016Intellectual Property Office

Request for figures of sub-licences of patents, trade marks and registered designs.

Assigned patents which have been licensed

17 Jul 2015Intellectual Property Office

Request for information on the number of patents that have been assigned and on which ten or more licences have been recorded.

Compulsory patent licences

20 Feb 2015Intellectual Property Office

Request for information on number of compulsory licenses granted within the UK.

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

Publisher and organisation selections · all years

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Published FOI and EIR responses by year · selected publishers and organisations
Publication year	Published responses
2014	33
2015	55
2016	55
2017	18
2018	49
2019	7
2021	12
2022	14
2023	18
2024	10
2025	3
2026	1

Publisher and organisation selections apply to this chart. Text search and year filters affect the results list only. Responses without a recorded publication date are excluded from the chart.

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%