Nearly a third of Kingston Council FOI responses sent late

The Kingston Guardian report:

Nearly a third of Kingston Council’s responses to freedom of information (FoI) requests in an eight month period were sent late.

By law public bodies have to respond to requests within 20 working days.

But more than 30 percent of responses between last October and this July for which the council supplied data – 427 out of 1,401 – came outside the legal limit.

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