FOI request (FOIR-675866595)

FOI Time Limits

Requested Mon 06 January 2025
Responded Tue 07 January 2025

The Freedom of Information Act 'provides an exemption from the obligation to comply with a request for information if the estimated costs of complying with that request would exceed the prescribed appropriate limit.'

Please find above, the response to some of my FOI requests.

I need to know how many FOI requests in total got this response in 2024 and what proportion that figure is of the total number of FOI requests for 2024.

Response

Hastings Borough received 822 Freedom of Information requests in 2024.

14 were refused under Section 12 - Exemption where cost of compliance exceeds appropriate limit.