Have had EVERY of question and demand that U can imagine from all sorts of people and many from people looking to have your business secrets so as they can compete Some requests take a little time and effort to respond to whilst others take lots of time and money to manage and has become a new business section such as H&S, HR, production etc. in my opinion U need to be fully aware of the wording of the law and what is allowed/not allowed to be able to manage it Best of luck

An FOI law shouldn't have any effect on record keeping and retention schedules, unless there is something specific in that legislation which requires this. I suspect that sort of thing is covered under your data protection legislation, i.e. you only keep what is necessary, for as long as is necessary, and get rid of it when it is no longer necessary! HSE gets a huge raft of requests on a daily basis covering pretty much everything you can imagine from information on visits to specific companies, details of investigations, general policy queries, expenses records etc etc. To get an idea of the sort of requests made, I'd suggest taking a look at the "What do they know" website as this is a portal through which FOI queries can be raised and answered.

Hi Oneof2, something to be aware of maybe is that it doesn't just impact on public bodies; we have had FOI requests as a contracted supplier of public services, John

Cynical ..........but true