Information on number of FOIA requests received by the FCA

Reference Case Number: FOI10815

Freedom of Information: Right to know request:

Please advise, how many FOIA requests has the FCA received in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

For each of those years, how many responses has the FCA sent which contain all or some of the information requested?
For each of those years, how many times has FCA provided none of the information requested because the FCA has relied on the exemptions in the FOIA?
For each of those years, how many responses has the FCA has published on its website?

FCA response:

Question 1

The information is publicly available from our website, broken down by Financial Year, and can be obtained using the links below. For this reason, we are exempted from having to disclose it to you under section 21 (Information reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means) of FOIA. For more details on why we are applying this exemption please see Annex A below.

2020-21

https://landmark-phase.live/data/service-standards-2020-21%3Cspan class="print-footnote">[1]

2021-22

https://landmark-phase.live/data/fca-operating-service-metrics-2021-22%3Cspan class="print-footnote">[2]

2022-23

https://landmark-phase.live/data/fca-operating-service-metrics-2022-23%3Cspan class="print-footnote">[3]

From April 2023 to date, a total of 549 requests have been received.

Received	Cases
2020/21	499
2021/22	495
2022/23	459
2023/24 to date	236

Question 2

Received	Cases
2020/21	254
2021/22	271
2022/23	204
2023/24 to date	130

Question 3

Received	Cases
2020/21	213
2021/22	167
2022/23	88
2023/24 to date	0

The FCA Disclosure Log contains information we have already released under FOIA, and which we think is of wider public interest. We usually update our log on a 6-monthly basis. However, we are currently reviewing our publication processes, and this has caused some delay in publishing the latest batch of responses. We expect to be able to publish the next batch of responses by the end of February.

Supporting document

FOI10815 Annex A[4]

Date of Release: 05/12/2023

Information on number of FOIA requests received by the FCA - December 2023