Prioritising FOI complaints

Draft response to the ICO consultation

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Draft response to ICO consultation on how to prioritise FOI complaints

Contents

1. Summary
2. Introduction and context
   1. About mySociety
   2. About WhatDoTheyKnow
   3. What the ICO wants to do
   4. Key context: ICO funding
3. The public interest and FOI
4. Maintaining the system
5. Avoiding a two tier system
   1. Requester-blind principle
   2. Definitions and scope
   3. Requests by the public, for the public, in public
   4. Sampling from a big net
   5. Fix systematic problems, not individual problems
6. Final response
   1. Feedback

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Cite this

mySociety, . (2022). Prioritising FOI complaints. [online] mySociety Research. Available at: https://research.mysociety.org/publications/prioritising-foi-complaints [Accessed 7 Aug 2025].