{"value":{"id":1759946,"askingMemberId":5161,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-29T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-02-03T00:00:00","uin":"27388","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in her Department are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests; and if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse of this work.","answeringBodyId":29,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Work and Pensions","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4979,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-02-06T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Department does not keep this information centrally and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs. This is because, whilst all Freedom of Information (FOI) requests are cleared by a central team, depending on the nature of the request, any member of the Department’s staff could potentially be involved in: processing; locating information for; or drafting, a response to a FOI request.</p><p> </p><p>DWP Departmental spend is published here: <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-payments-over-25-000\" target=\"_blank\">DWP: departmental spending over £25,000 - GOV.UK</a></p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Department for Work and Pensions: Freedom of Information","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1759946","method":"GET"}]}