How will EIRs be monitored?
The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) will monitor how cases are handled throughout central government. From January 2005 all central government public authorities will report to the DCA on their handling of FOI and EIR information requests according to the monitoring criteria set out by DCA. This information will be held on central database and the statistics will be made public at regular intervals.
Related Questions
- Why do the EIRs not backdate the requirement to make information available electronically to 28 January 2003 (when the Directive entered into force)?
- What do I do if at internal review stage we decide that an application should have been considered under the EIRs and not the Act (or vice versa)?
- The EIRs aren under an absolute exemption from FOI, so doesn that mean the public interest test is carried out twice?
