GOV.UK Published FOI Responses
Published Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulations responses from central government. Each entry is a public question answered and published by a government body.
12,277
Published Responses
125
Organisations
Q3 2025
Latest stats period
87.6%
Avg on-time rate
Responses by Year
Best on-time rates — Q3 2025
Rural Payments Agency
100.0%
Office of Rail and Road
100.0%
Debt Management Office
100.0%
Serious Fraud Office
97.1%
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
97.1%
Lowest on-time rates — Q3 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
41.5%
Home Office
67.1%
Ministry of Defence
74.6%
Health and Safety Executive
74.7%
Cabinet Office
75.5%
Timeliness data from the Cabinet Office quarterly FOI statistics (2,576 quarterly data points across 75 central government bodies). View all statistics →
274 matching responses
View on GOV.UKList of accepted trade marks from 2021- 2023.
List of number of FOI requests and SARs received in 2021 and 2022.
Graphs showing trends of patent applications submitted by individual inventor.
Details of the number of UK Intellectual Property Office design invalidity actions filed in the last 5 years.
Statistics on the number of ex parte design hearings for 2017-2023.
Requesting updated details on number of registrations and applications for non standard trademarks.
Requesting details on the number of IPO staff granted permission to work abroad.
Statistics relating to the number of oppositions filed for trademarks registered under Class 25 (footwear and apparel).
Oppositions filed against UK trade marks (and UK designation of IRs) in the last two years and number of TM8 defences filed.
Details of any technologies which the IPO would need to report to other companies, organisations or directly to government.
Statistics for January 2022- June 2023 on different elements of UK oppositions.
Details of the grant success rates of non-represented patent applicants versus represented patent applicants.
Requesting details of how many trademark applications were received on 01 January 1876.
The number of UK comparable trade marks and designs created, and the number opted out, following the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
The amount of money paid by the UKIPO to EY for the preparation and production of this report.
Patent applications and grants 1970 to 1979, and for the years 2020 and 2000.
The British patent for the first typewriter machine, invented in 1866 in England by John Pratt (patent No. 3163, 1st December 1866, according to the London Society of Arts. Other sources list it as 1863.
Partial information on numbers of applications received and their outcomes.
A copy or link requested to all patents for Sars CoV-2 testing kits to which the government guidance applies.
The IPO’s trial on preliminary indicators in trade mark oppositions.
Patent filing data for 2018 and 2019 available. Data for 2020 was not available at time of the request.
Shortest time period for processing patents
Freedom of Information requests, Subject Access Requests and written complaints and other enquiries received in the calendar years 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Inspection activities performed by the Intellectual Property Office.
Request for the number of lapsed patents over a three year period and how many applications for restoration were received and restored.
Complaints submitted for consideration by the Secretary of State under a provision of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Request concerning any compensation for ‘orphan works’ licensed by the IPO since October 2014.
The number of requests to reproduce orphan works legally under the Orphan Works Licensing Scheme.
Comparison of prosecution figures recorded before and after the Digital Economy Act 2017.
Request for an unusual search for trade marks commencing with the hash symbol.
Trade mark priority claims from a selection of countries.
Provides information held by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) on UK certification marks in force, refused, withdrawn or being processed (as at 30 January 2020).
Details of published GB patent applications where requests for restoration have been filed.
The number of the various types and formats of trade mark hearings that have taken place over the last 10 years.
Data on oppositions which have been defended at various stages and a breakdown of represented and unrepresented applicants concerned.
Data on the following: Complaints, data protection requests, freedom of information requests
questions from parliament and correspondences from ministers.
Documents leading up to the 1977 Bill relating to employee inventions and compensation.
The number of merger requests filed with the UKIPO in the last 20 years.
Mean and median earnings for employees, including gender split and salary minima and maxima for each grade.
Figures of UK trade mark applications and International registrations designating the UK in the food and drinks classes.
What channels are provided for patent payments, volume of patent payments and supplier for each channel.
A list of complaints against UK CMOs (including CMOs with Memoranda of Understanding with the IPO) from 2015.
Statistics of how many patents are granted to men/women in the UK per year.
Questions about the handling of applications restricted under section 22 of the patents Act 1977.
Data on patent applications from the London area.
The number of trade marks filed which contain "CBD" either in the trade mark or somewhere in their specification
The number of complaints of piracy reported to the department between January 2014 and June 2019.
Number of staff employed by the IPO to work primarily or specifically on Brexit preparations or policy.
Information regarding appealed oppositions (both to the Appointed Person and to the Court)
Annual numbers of granted and lapsed patents from 1988 to end of 2018.
Sources:
GOV.UK Search API (
filter_content_store_document_type=foi_release) and
Cabinet Office / MoJ FOI Statistics CSV.
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