Freedom of Information requests made

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please provide the following information:

1. Total number of FOI requests received by the authority, dating
from 1st Jan 2005 to present day, and broken down annually.

2. Out of these, the number that received a response within the
20-working day limit.

3. The longest time taken to respond to a request.

4. Out of the total, the number of requests that were refused.

5. Out of those requests that were refused, please provide, in
accordance with section 17 of the Act, the specific exemption in
question.

I do not need this for each individual case, but a tally of how
many cases were refused for specific exemptions.

eg.

135 cases refused by virtue of section 30 (2) FOI Act 2000.

59 cases refused by virtue of section 40 (1) FOI Act 2000.etc.

6. The number of respondents who requested an internal review of
their request.

7. The results of any internal requests. i.e did the authority
uphold the original decision?

8. The number of cases referred to the Information Commissioner

9. If any such cases exist, what the result was.

10. The criteria used when considering the public interest test.

Yours faithfully,

Alexander Plough