The Ministry of Justice has published the Annual Report on the Freedom of Information Act for 2006 which includes the statistics on the performance of central government in handling requests. (Thanks to the UK Freedom of Information Act blog for the tip).
The full report is downloadable from the Ministry of Justice's website.
Naked Law (the blog of Mills & Reeve Solicitors) makes the point that
In our experience, businesses are still catching on to the opportunities to use the FOIA to obtain information about rivals (eg lost tenders), and public authorities are having to become increasingly adept at negotiating their way through the commercially sensitive and confidential information exemptions.
It's definitely a view I share.
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