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FOI Statistics

Exemptions

All Time:

There were 131,793 exemptions over 103,360 contested requests.

ExemptionsTimes Referenced
S(40) - Personal information47,491
S(21) - Information accessible to applicant by other means.11,744
S(31) - Law enforcement9,384
S(22) - Information intended for future publication8,154
S(43) - Commercial interests8,112
S(35) - Formulation of Government policy, etc7,513
S(44) - Prohibitions on disclosure7,293
S(30) - Investigations and proceedings conducted by public authorities7,043
S(41) - Information provided in confidence5,208
S(27) - International relations4,464
S(36) - Prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs3,375
S(23) - Information supplied by, or relating to, bodies dealing with security matters3,232
S(38) - Health and Safety3,125
S(24) - National security2,895
S(32) - Court records, etc2,568
3(a) - Exempt personal data2,126
S(42) - Legal professional privilege1,907
S(26) - Defence1,270
4(e) - Internal communications941
4(b) - Manifestly unreasonable847
S(37) - Communications with Her Majesty, etc and honours730
5(e) - Impinges on confidentiality of commercial or industrial information698
4(a) - Information not held622
S(33) - Audit functions540
S(29) - The economy505
4(d) - Work in progress / incomplete data497
5(a) - Adverse effect on international relations, defence, national security, public safety348
5(b) - Adverse effect on course of justice or conduct of enquiries245
S(28) - Relations within the United Kingdom159
5(f) - Adverse effect on interests of person who provided the information145
4(c) - Too general133
5(d) - Impinges on confidentiality of a public authority's work106
5(c) - Adverse effect on intellectual property rights45
S(34) - Parliamentary privilege39
5(g) - Adverse effect on protection of environment to which information relates21
S(22A) - Research intended for future publication12
S(39) - Environmental information0