Cost of FOIs

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Dear Scottish Borders Council,

Please can you tell me how many Freedom Of Information requests you have received every year for the last five years (2014-2019) and how much it has cost the council to respond to FOIs each year.

Yours faithfully,

Alasdair Russell

Freedom of Information, Scottish Borders Council

Dear Alasdair Russell

I acknowledge receipt of your request for information relating to the
above and shall respond within the relevant 20 working day period.

Yours sincerely

Information Management Team

Scottish Borders Council

0300 100 1800

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Freedom of Information, Scottish Borders Council

Dear Alasdair Russell

Further to your request for information under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 relating to the above I am now able to respond.

 

The following response was prepared and provided on behalf of Regulatory
Services:

 

Number of Information Requests Received

 

Unfortunately we are unable to provide you with the figures for 2014, 2015
2016 and some of 2017 due to retention policies. To comply with retention
we do not keep requests which are over 3 years old. Therefore, we give
notice under s17 of FOI(S)A 2002 and declaring some of the information you
require is not held. However, please see figures below for 2017, 2018,
2019 and 2020.

 

2017 = 333

2018 = 1406

2019 =  1329

2020 (as of 29^th October) = 832

 

Cost for the Council to Respond to Information Requests

 

Responding to information requests is part of staff roles and confirm that
there is no specific budget for responding to FOI and EIR. Therefore, the
answer is zero to all years requested.

 

I should advise that you have a right to request a review within 40
working days from the date we respond to your request.  You should either
e-mail [1][email address] or write to the Information Manager,
Scottish Borders Council, Council HQ, Newtown St. Boswells TD6 0SA.

 

If after the Council’s FOI Advice Group have considered your review and
you are still not happy with the decision you then have a right to appeal
to the Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner, you do this either
by visiting [2]http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal  or by post to: 
Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9DS.

Yours sincerely

Molly Longstaff
for the

Information Management Team

Scottish Borders Council

Newtown St Boswells

TD6 0SA

E mail:  [Scottish Borders Council request email]

Tel: 0300 100 1800

 

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