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</h3> <h4> WhatDoTheyKnow users have made 1,169,914 requests, including: </h4> <ul> <li class="request-listing"> <div class="request-listing__request-status-icon bottomline icon_successful icon-standalone"></div> <div class="request-listing__request-body"> <p> <a href="/body/tfgm">Transport for Greater Manchester</a> answered a request about <a href="/request/stockport_greek_street_closure_a">Stockport Greek Street closure and diversions</a> </p> <p class="request-body__time-ago"> about 3 hours ago </p> </div> </li> <li class="request-listing"> <div class="request-listing__request-status-icon bottomline icon_successful icon-standalone"></div> <div class="request-listing__request-body"> <p> <a href="/body/croydon_borough_council">Croydon Borough Council</a> answered a request about <a href="/request/personal_budgets_in_education_20_49">Personal Budgets in Education 2025</a> </p> <p class="request-body__time-ago"> about 4 hours ago </p> </div> </li> <li class="request-listing"> <div class="request-listing__request-status-icon bottomline icon_partially_successful icon-standalone"></div> <div class="request-listing__request-body"> <p> <a href="/body/dft">Department for Transport</a> answered a request about <a href="/request/junction_analysis_traffic_data_c">Junction Analysis – Traffic Data – Cross-roads</a> </p> <p class="request-body__time-ago"> about 2 hours ago </p> </div> </li> <li class="request-listing"> <div class="request-listing__request-status-icon bottomline icon_successful icon-standalone"></div> <div class="request-listing__request-body"> <p> <a href="/body/police_scotland">Police Scotland</a> answered a request about <a href="/request/angus_robertson_sinclair_firearm">Angus Robertson Sinclair Firearms Offences 1979</a> </p> <p class="request-body__time-ago"> about 5 hours ago </p> </div> </li> <li class="request-listing"> <div class="request-listing__request-status-icon bottomline icon_partially_successful icon-standalone"></div> <div class="request-listing__request-body"> <p> <a href="/body/defra">Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</a> answered a request about <a href="/request/statutory_consultees_for_flood_r">Statutory consultees for flood risk</a> </p> <p class="request-body__time-ago"> about 7 hours ago </p> </div> </li> </ul> <a class="button-secondary" href="/list">Browse all requests →</a> </div> </div> <div class="homepage-article-section" id="what-is-foi"> <div class="row homepage-article-section__ar-contet"> <div class="ar-content__headings "> <h2>What is Freedom of Information?</h2> <p class="ar-content__lede"> Make a request for information to a UK public authority.<br> By law, they have to respond. </p> </div> <div class="ar-content__article-grid col-2-grid"> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> The Freedom of Information Act, also known as <strong>FOI gives you the right to <a href="/help/requesting">request recorded information</a> from public authorities</strong>. </p> <p> As well as documents and emails, it also covers things like spreadsheets, presentations, maps, videos and photographs. </p> </div> </div> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> By law <strong>requests have to be answered promptly</strong> and within <a href="/help/requesting#quickly_response">20 working days</a>. <p> <p> <strong>In most cases information should be released</strong>, but various <a href="/help/exemptions">exemptions</a> allow authorities to withhold information. </p> </div> </div> </div> <p class="ar-content__lede"> <a href="/help/about_foi">Learn more about the Freedom of Information act →</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="homepage-article-section" id="how-to-use-foi"> <div class="row homepage-article-section__ar-contet"> <div class="ar-content__headings "> <h2>How do I use Freedom of Information?</h2> <p class="ar-content__lede"> From <a href="https://twitter.com/WhatDoTheyKnow/status/1025388510474379264">coach drop off points</a> to <a href="https://www.mysociety.org/2019/09/02/foi-and-the-irish-border-issue/">national borders</a>; <a href="https://www.mysociety.org/2019/07/26/after-exploitation-using-foi-to-understand-what-happens-to-victims-of-modern-slavery/">modern slavery</a> to <a href="https://www.mysociety.org/2019/06/05/case-study-sold-from-under-you-by-the-bureau-of-investigative-journalism/">council sell-offs</a>, <em style="background-color:#ffd7005c;">Freedom of Information is a tool that everyone can use</em>. Individual or community group; journalist or campaigner. National or local; every day or now and then. Here are just a few of the ways that it can help… </p> </div> <div class="ar-content__article-grid col-2-grid"> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>🔍 Find the evidence:</strong> Survey responses, research reports and board papers can help you to uncover the truth behind decisions and public statements. </p> </div> </div> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>⚖️ Compare and contrast:</strong> Compare the situation in your local area with what’s happening in other parts of the country and highlight disparities or similarities. </p> </div> </div> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>💰 Follow the money:</strong> Contracts, invoices and budget information let you see where public money goes, ensuring greater accountability for how funds are allocated and spent. </p> </div> </div> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>🧩 Fill in the gaps:</strong> You can ask a group of authorities to build or extract a dataset that didn't exist. This can fill knowledge gaps and improve public understanding of specific issues. </p> </div> </div> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>🤔 Understand why:</strong> Meeting minutes, policy papers and internal correspondence can help you to understand why important decisions were taken, and who is accountable for those decisions. </p> </div> </div> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>☀️ Promote openness:</strong> Asking for datasets can help to show that there is public demand to see it, which might persuade the authority to publish it routinely without needing to be asked. </p> </div> </div> </div> <p class="ar-content__lede"> Read our <a href="https://www.mysociety.org/category/transparency/?tag=case-studies">case studies</a> for some great examples of how others have put these ideas to use. </p> </div> </div> <div class="homepage-article-section" id="how-we-help"> <div class="row homepage-article-section__ar-contet"> <div class="ar-content__headings "> <h2>How does WhatDoTheyKnow help?</h2> </div> <div class="ar-content__article-grid col-2-grid"> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>🔀 Find the right authority:</strong> A database of 46,000+ public bodies, kept up to date by a team of staff and volunteers. </p> </div> </div> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>🗂️ Public archive:</strong> A permanent, searchable, public record of over one million information requests and responses. <p> </div> </div> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>✍️ Write your request:</strong> Inline guidance and a collection of help pages to help write your request. <p> </div> </div> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>🤖 Automate bureaucracy:</strong> Built in assistance and reminders to manage your request from submission to completion. <p> </div> </div> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>🏟️ Correspond in public:</strong> Requests and responses are automatically published online with proof of delivery to hold authorities accountable to respond. <p> </div> </div> <div class="article-grid__item"> <div class="article-grid__item-content"> <p> <strong>🛑 Refusal advice:</strong> Encouragement, support, guidance and snippets to help challenge refusals at internal review, regulator appeal and tribunal<sup></sup>. <p> </div> </div> </div> <p class="ar-content__lede"> <a href="/help/about">Learn more about WhatDoTheyKnow</a>. 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