Dear Sir or Madam,

Since the inception of the Freedom of Information Act to date

1)how many requests for information under the act has the council
received?

2)how many have times has the council failed to respond within the
statutory 20 day period?

Yours faithfully,

T Thomas

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request for information received at this office on 29 September 2008. This has been considered as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request may take up to 20 working days to be processed.

If an exemption applies to the information that you have requested, the statutory period may be exceeded in accordance with the provisions of that Act.

If a charge is applicable to your request, we will advise you of this in due course.

Should you have any queries, please contact me.

_________________________________________________
Carl Wiper
Corporate Information Manager
Bolton Council, Room 320, Town Hall, Bolton BL1 1RU tel: 01204 331031, mobile: 0778 903 1512
[email address]

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Further to your request for information, Bolton Council is happy to
provide the following information.

You asked:

Since the inception of the Freedom of Information Act to date

1)how many requests for information under the act has the council

received?

We began using a central database for logging FOI requests in August
2005. Prior to that there was no central record of all FOI requests
received, so we do not have figures for that period. From August 2005 to
date there are 819 requests recorded on the database.

2)how many have times has the council failed to respond within the
statutory 20 day period?

According to the database, the response was sent after the 20 day
deadline for 198 requests.

If you have any further queries please contact me.

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