Department for International Trade
- Date 5 September 2022
- Type Enforcement notice
- Sector Central government
Enforcement notices are used where there are repeated and/or significant or systemic issues in compliance with any of the requirements of Part 1 of FOIA.
The Department for International Trade has been served with an Enforcement Notice as a result of the evidence seen by the Commissioner about its performance in relation to its statutory duties under the Freedom of information Act (FOIA). Specifically:
In June 2022, the Central Government Q1 2022 stats were published, which saw DIT meet only 19% of FOI requests in 20 days with 55% of requests receiving a late response; and
The failure by DIT to provide sufficient mitigation for its performance in its response to our enquiries regarding this performance.
The Enforcement Notice requires the DIT to provide responses to requests that are over 20 working days old and devise and publish an action plan to mitigate delays.