| Heading: |
Freedom of Information and Written Questions: Costs |
| Question ID: |
1801636 |
| UIN: |
51450 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-12 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4813 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Richard Holden
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| Asking Member handle: |
RicHolden
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@RicHolden
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how are aggregate disproportionate cost thresholds reviewed for (a) written Parliamentary Questions and (b) Freedom of Information Act requests; how often do these reviews take place; and on what dates have chan |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4820 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ms Abena Oppong-Asare
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| Answering Member handle: |
abenaopp
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@abenaopp
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
The Guide to Parliamentary Work, which is published online and available here, sets out that there is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written questio... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
53 |
| Answering body name: |
Cabinet Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |