questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department missed any statutory deadlines to respond to information requests submitted under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
answerText: Yes, in 2022 and 2023 to date, 4 out of 956 requests that were handled under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 missed the statutory deadline to respond to the information request.
heading: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Disclosure of Information