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.UKInformation regarding appealed oppositions (both to the Appointed Person and to the Court).
The average length between serving the DF19B and issue of the design decision [as at May 2019].
Average time taken from the filing of the notice of defence to the issuing of the Hearing Officer’s decision [as at May 2019].
Number of Chinese applicants for British trade marks.
Terms of employment and transfer of IPO.
Request for a list of applications for non-traditional trade marks since January 2019.
Numbers of designs applications received per year.
Request for information about countries that have criminalized IP theft and for a list giving numbers of patent applications and grants over 40 years.
Request for information on days the office is closed.
Request for information about handling of personal information requests under the GDPR.
Request for details of non-traditional trade marks filed from 14 January 2019.
Request for figures of trade marks objected to on absolute grounds.
Request for details of the numbers of assessments conducted under employment legislation introduced on 6 April 2017.
Request for data on applications filed without representation.
Request for annual figures of design applications.
Request for the latest filing figures for UK trade mark applications and whether these have been published.
Request for details of the current pay settlement, pay and grading and the trade unions representing IPO staff.
Request for figures of patents, designs and trade marks filed in the UK from applicants in Taiwan.
Request for the percentage of GB-PCT patent cases filed that go to grant.
Request for information about provisional patents.
Request for data on spending by the Intellectual Property Office since 2011.
Request for assistance in researching inventions of unusual musical instruments.
Information about applications to include words in company names that are ‘sensitive’, i.e. are meaningful with respect to the functions of other public bodies.
Information about licences of right (LORs).
Request for information on energy, gas and water management within IPO premises.
Information about the courier services currently employed.
Information about patenting activity within the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Information about recruitment of people who apply using the guaranteed interview scheme.
Information about remuneration of all staff and emoluments paid to senior staff earning over £100k.
Information about a recruitment process.
Information about the options for mediation and indications of success.
Request for a comprehensive list of brands relating to alcohol products.
Request for numbers of orphan works and the registration fees collected.
Request for information regarding any such prosecutions during the last four years.
Request for number of compulsory licences granted in 2017 under EC Regulation 816/2006.
Request for number of such trade mark applications received.
Request for a copy of the regulatory impact assessment for The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003.
Request for information regarding use of various social media services/platforms.
Request for information as to whether the UK offers protection for utility models.
Request for information relating to the duration of copyright (in particular of photographs), and to the standard of originality of computer programmes.
Request for information regarding non-payment of fees for a patent extension during the last 10 years.
Request for information about non-traditional trade marks (for example shape or 3D marks).
Request for numbers of subject access requests received, under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998, from 2014 to 2016.
Request for figures of designs registered at the IPO in the last 10 years.
Request for information about the salaries of staff of the Trade Marks Registry.
Request for information about the number of national security patents, subject to directions issued under s.22 of the Patents Act 1977.
Request for updated information regarding patent extensions.
Request for the number of applications received in recent years from unrepresented applicants.
Request for breakdown of ‘image only’ trade marks that have been filed and registered in the U.K.
Request for an article from an archived copy of an in-house staff magazine.
Sources:
GOV.UK Search API (
filter_content_store_document_type=foi_release) and
Cabinet Office / MoJ FOI Statistics CSV.
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