Rishi Sunak accused of concealment culture after record number of FoI blocks

Lowest ever percentage of freedom of information requests were fully granted in first three months of current government

Rishi Sunak’s government placed a record number of blocks on freedom of information requests in its first three months, leading to accusations of a “culture of concealment”.

New figures show that the government gave out information in full in only 33.6% of cases in which it held the data during the first three months of Sunak’s administration. Just 3,895 of 11,597 “resolvable requests” were granted in full.