Insights
Original analysis drawn from the FOI releases we track — not just a republished feed.
- The nine-month gap: what a stall in FOI disclosure logs looks like
Between January and September 2023, our policing & justice dataset recorded almost no new FOI releases at all. Then the backlog arrived in batches. Here's the pattern, from the data alone.
- Why 'policing FOI' here mostly isn't about your local police force
GOV.UK's FOI feed barely touches the 43 territorial police forces. Here's what central government FOI data about policing actually covers instead.
- Immigration and asylum is the single largest FOI topic we track — here's what's actually in it
153 FOI releases about immigration and asylum, almost all from the Home Office. What the questions people ask actually look like, and how that's shifted over two decades.