The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is monitoring the Ministry of Justice, due to concerns over how fast the department responds to freedom of information (FOI) requests. The ICO says it will review the performance of the Ministry of Justice in relation to FOI requests received between September 1 2015 November and 30 2015. This is due to delays being identified in many cases where the statutory time limit of 20 working days was exceeded. The latest MOJ quarterly FOI statistics indicate that the department is well below 85 per cent, which is one of the triggers for formal monitoring to be considered. Meanwhwile The Royal Borough of Greenwich Council, which was the subject of an extended period of monitoring, has now been taken off formal monitoring following sustained improvements in performance. Cumbria County Council, Nottingham City Council and Salford City Council have also been taken off formal ICO monitoring, after improvements in their performance during the last monitoring period between February 1 and April 30 2015......Read more here