logoalt Hacker News

petcat • yesterday at 7:59 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The UK FOIA law only requires the government to acknowledge the request within 30 days. Not to actually fulfill it. In reality it is much, much slower and incomplete than the OP suggested.


Replies

ahazred8ta • yesterday at 10:40 PM

As they said in "Yes, Minister": "under consideration" means we've lost the file; "under active consideration" means we're trying to find it.