AQW 6167/16-21

Mrs Naomi Long
Alliance Party
East Belfast

Tabled Date: 25/10/2016
Answered On Date: 09/11/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities what processes are in place to ensure the speedy release of a Freedom of Information request in circumstances where the absence of clearance from either he or his Special Adviser has taken the request beyond the statutory deadline for response.

Answer:

Draft replies to FOI requests may be considered by a number of staff in the department before a response is approved and issued. The Department seeks wherever possible to comply with deadlines for responses to requests.