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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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Private security contractors

27 Nov 2013Ministry of Defence

MOD response to an FOI request for the number private security contractors employed and total spend on private security companies.

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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
2007	1
2008	2
2009	1
2010	28
2011	23
2012	5
2013	25
2014	63
2015	47
2016	55
2017	27
2018	27
2019	28
2020	53
2021	35
2022	30
2023	40
2024	20
2025	5

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%