FOI Salaries
Hi Cabinet Office
I'm trying to do some benchmarking and I was hoping you could help.
Could you tell me:
(1) How many people work in your FOI team (or team responsible for dealing with FOI requests)?
(2) What is the grade/salary band of the most senior person who writes FOI responses? (i.e. what grade are they and what salary range covers this grade)
(3) What is the grade/salary band of the most senior person who writes internal review responses?
(4) What is the grade/salary band of the most senior person who writes submissions for the ICO?
(5) What is the grade/salary band of the manager of the FOI team?
(6) In 2023, 2022 and 2021 respectively how many FOI and EIR requests did you deal with?
Thanks in advance
Jon Howard
Our ref: FOI2024/02274
Dear Jon Howard,
Thank you for your request for information which was received on 16th
February. Your request is being handled under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 ('the Act').
The Act requires that a response must be given promptly, and in any event
within 20 working days. We will therefore aim to reply at the latest by
15th March.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
Cabinet Office
Dear Jon Howard,
Please find attached our response to your recent Freedom of Information
request (reference FOI2024/02274).
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
Cabinet Office
Hi
Sorry, can I be a pain and ask for an internal review?
I don't think that it's the case that the lack of a centralised record means that you don't hold the information I'm looking for. I presume you keep some kind of record of what responses you've sent and who was responsible for writing them. I get that owing to the volume of "first time" requests it might be difficult to locate, extract and retrieve this information within the appropriate limit (although even this I'm a touch sceptical of).
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...
Yours faithfully,
Jon Howard
Dear Jon Howard,
Thank you for your request for an internal review (reference
IR2024/03720), which was prompted by our response to your request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We shall endeavour to complete the internal review and respond to you
within 20 working days.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Team
Dear Jon Howard,
Please find attached our response to your request for an Internal Review
(reference IR2024/03720).
Yours sincerely,
FOI Team
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Paul Douglas left an annotation ()
For point 5 you can refer to the published Cabinet Office statistics for all Government departments
https://www.gov.uk/government/collection...