Islington Council failed to respond in time to more than one in four Freedom of Information (FOI) requests last year.

The town hall took longer than the 20-day legal requirement for requests made under the FOI Act 2000 to respond on 556 of 1,900 occasions.

Reported by the Islington Gazette. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
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.