The Department for Education (DfE) has been put into “special measures” by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over its record in dealing with Freedom of Information requests.
The latest statistics on the performance of government departments revealed that, in the last quarter, the DfE had the worst record out of all departments in England for responding to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests within the legal time limit – doing so in fewer than three-quarters of cases (74 per cent).
Other departments, including health, had a 100 per cent score. As a result, the DfE has been put under special monitoring by the ICO, which will now increase its checks on the department until it is satisfied that its procedures have improved.
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