Lowest ever percentage of freedom of information requests were fully granted in first three months of current government

Rishi Sunak’s government placed a record number of blocks on freedom of information requests in its first three months, leading to accusations of a “culture of concealment”.

New figures show that the government gave out information in full in only 33.6% of cases in which it held the data during the first three months of Sunak’s administration. Just 3,895 of 11,597 “resolvable requests” were granted in full.

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