Updated: There was an error on Slide 14 of the chart in the 2017 Annual bulletin - 'Most commonly used exemptions'. This has now been corrected. The data tables and CSV files were unaffected.
Corrections
There was an error on Slide 14 of the chart in the 2017 Annual bulletin - ‘Most commonly used exemptions’. This has now been corrected. The data tables and CSV files were unaffected. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
We previously identified a small error in earlier published bulletins: FOI requests that were ‘On hold or lapsed’ at the time of monitoring were also being counted as ‘Still being processed’ in error, affecting approximately 30 requests each quarter.
Affected results are the ‘Still being processed’ and ‘Response not yet provided’ columns in Tables 1 & 5 of the 2017 Q1 and Q2 bulletins, and Tables 2, 6 and 7 of the 2016 Annual bulletin, as well as the columns headed ‘Requests still being processed’ and ‘Initial Outcome Response not yet provided’ in the csv data files from Q4 2015 to Q2 2017.
This was corrected in the Q3 2017 bulletin and tables, and we will be correcting previous versions very shortly. All previous versions of the data will be available on a ‘previous versions’ page once updated. We apologise for any inconvenience.
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