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Freedom of information guidance for local government

This guidance is for all organisations covered by the Freedom of Information Act that do not currently report statistics through the Ministry of Justice statistical release process.

Its purpose is to encourage local government and other bodies subject to the legislation to publish to the same standard as the central government and Crown-body information that is currently produced by the department.

The guidance includes a section that covers various aspects of the Ministry of Justice's freedom of information monitoring statistics, including monitoring pro formas and a series of presentational tables that can be used for quarterly and annual reporting.

• Summary guidance on publishing freedom of information data (PDF 0.09mb 14 pages)
• Freedom of Information monitoring pro forma for quarters 1 to 3 (Excel 0.07mb 6 pages)
• Freedom of Information monitoring pro forma for quarter 4 (Excel 0.18mb 11 pages)
• Presentational tables (Excel 0.14mb 13 pages)