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

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%

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FOI response gives the number of male and female driving licence holders and the numbers with speeding offences on their licence.
22 October 2014 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
Secure English Language Test providers (SELT) agreement extensions and competition withdrawal
24 September 2014 UK Space Agency
The average time taken from intial contact to being granted an Outer Space Act licence.
19 September 2014 Civil Nuclear Constabulary
Firearms licences granted by the Civil Nuclear Constabulary.
25 July 2014 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
Oxycodone import licence applications received and cancelled, including reasons for cancellation, from 1 June 2011 to 30 May 2014.
24 July 2014 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
Number of Tier 4 sponsorship licences issued to institutions including the number suspended and revoked from July 2008 to 31 December 2013.
18 July 2014 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
The number of hemp growing licences issued between 2010 and 2014 and justification for hemp growing licence fee.
Response to an FOI request regarding a list of domain names (or URLs) that the department owns licences for
Crops that require a licence.
A list of domain names (or URLs) that the department owns licences for
Response to a Freedom of Information request from the Driving Standards Agency.
Response to a Freedom of Information request from the Driving Standards Agency.
Response to a Freedom of Information request from the Driving Standards Agency.
Copy of licence issued to Circus Mondao to operate using wild animals for 2014.
14 April 2014 Department for Business, Innovation & Skills  ·  View inquiry tracking
List of suspended and still unsuspended extant licences for export to the Russian military that could be used against Ukraine.
Licence issued on 20 March 2014 to Peter Jolly's circus to operate using wild animals.
Application from Peter Jolly's Circus for 2014 licence under the Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (England) Regulations 2012.
Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences (PEDLs) covering parts of Bath, Somerset and Bristol (PEDLs 226, 227 and 228).
11 February 2014 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
Number of licences granted for the cultivation of low and high tetrahydrocannabinol cannabis plants in England and Wales, 2010 to 2013.
24 January 2014 Department for Business, Innovation & Skills  ·  View inquiry tracking
Information on the number of all existing strategic export licences for military and dual-use goods going to Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania.
20 December 2013 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
Personal license applications received and granted for the importation of medicinal cannabis from October 2012 to October 2013.
3 December 2013 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
Number of UK Universities holding Tier 4 sponsor licence out of the 181 subjected to UKBA audit from July 2012 to July 2013.
27 November 2013 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
The numbers of weapon licences issused under Section 5 authorities from 2008 to October 2013 to the Home Department by the Secretary of State.
8 November 2013 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
Work permits granted, Tier 2 sponsor licences issued and revoked by the former UK Border Agency to UK employers in 2009 to 2012.
Licence for an English circus to use big cats.
12 November 2012 Driving Standards Agency
Number of trainee licences issued to potential driving instructors.
12 November 2012 Driving Standards Agency
ADIs on the register and the number of trainee licences issued.
7 November 2012 Driving Standards Agency
Withdrawn driving test pass certificates and licences.
Freedom of Information response about Traffic Commissioners being able to impose conditions on an operator's licence.
FOI response detailing provisional driver licence data by age and partial postcode.
25 July 2012 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
23348 We have a received a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for the following:  1. How many licences were applied for and…
FOI response detailing driver licence data by gender and age.
28 February 2012 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
We have received a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for the following:  I would like a freedom of information disclosure detailing…
FOI response detailing full and provisional driver licence data by gender and age.
12 January 2012 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
Figures released on the number of cannabis cultivation licences issued from 2000 to 2010 (information before 2000 not available) and the number…
FOI response regarding driver licence data.
11 January 2012 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
The number of exemptions/licences to cultivate cannabis in 2010. The following information was released on 6th May 2011: 53 licences to cultivate…
16 November 2011 Driving Standards Agency
Approved driving instructor, trainee licence holders and training organisations statistics.
11 November 2011 Driving Standards Agency
Response to FOI request IA0098311: Approved driving instructors with points on their licence or criminal records.
Freedom of Information response about the operator licence database.
11 July 2011 Home Office  ·  View inquiry tracking
We released the following information on the purpose of the first ten cannabis licences granted in 2010 on 11th July 2011: Licenses are issued…
Driver CPC periodic training hours completed by drivers with a UK licence number.
Approved driving instructor (ADI) numbers and potential driving instructor (PDI) licences.
Freedom of Information response about details of PSV operator licences issued in the north west traffic area and recorded as not valid.
FOI response detailing driver licence with penalty points data.
Freedom of Information response about publication of operator licence details in the traffic commissioner's Notices and Proceedings booklet.
FOI response regarding driver licence and penalty points data.
Freedom of Information response about operator licence details for operating centres at postcode NR17 2LR since 2006.
Freedom of Information response regarding PSV operator licence holders in Yorkshire and Humberside.
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