Year-to-date totals for requests received under the UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service and is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Use Cases
- Tracking trends in public information requests based on the year-to-date totals.
- Analyzing government openness and accountability based on the volume of FOI and EIR requests.
- Benchmarking public authority performance in information disclosure based on request volumes.
- Researching public engagement with environmental information based on EIR request data.
Strengths
- Data is provided under the Open Government Licence v3.0, facilitating reuse.
- Focuses on two key UK transparency laws: the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Government Digital Service
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- Year-to-date
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United Kingdom