Bristol City Council was only able to answer half of the Freedom of Information (FOI) requests it received last year within the legal time limit.

The council said it had seen a surge in the number of requests it received at a time it was cutting staff numbers.

It also said many of the requests come from organisations interested in business rates and rental values rather than individual members of the public.

Reported by the Bristol Post. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.