Details of request 'Freedom of Information requests'

Event history

This table shows the technical details of the internal events that happened to this request on WhatDoTheyKnow. This could be used to generate information about the speed with which authorities respond to requests, the number of requests which require a postal response and much more.

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id event_type created_at described_state last_described_at calculated_state link
12403 sent Sun Sep 28 16:53:10 UTC 2008 waiting_response Sun Sep 28 16:53:10 UTC 2008 waiting_response outgoing
21830 followup_sent Wed Dec 24 23:38:21 UTC 2008 internal_review Wed Dec 24 23:38:21 UTC 2008 internal_review outgoing
68894 followup_sent Thu Jul 16 19:18:10 UTC 2009 outgoing
68895 response Thu Jul 16 19:18:18 UTC 2009 Fri Jul 24 11:00:43 UTC 2009 not_held incoming
68900 followup_sent Thu Jul 16 19:30:41 UTC 2009 not_held outgoing
136969 comment Sat Jan 30 19:13:35 UTC 2010
136983 comment Sat Jan 30 21:25:26 UTC 2010
137021 followup_sent Sun Jan 31 16:19:26 UTC 2010 outgoing
141485 comment Fri Feb 12 22:56:24 UTC 2010
141613 comment Sun Feb 14 10:23:19 UTC 2010
171572 response Tue May 11 15:37:58 UTC 2010 partially_successful Tue May 11 16:06:03 UTC 2010 partially_successful incoming

Here described means when a user selected a status for the request, and the most recent event had its status updated to that value. calculated is then inferred by WhatDoTheyKnow for intermediate events, which weren't given an explicit description by a user. See the search tips for description of the states.

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