To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what total sum has been received by his Department for the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in its first year of operation.

Department for Transport along with other central Departments is currently participating in a monitoring exercise to record the costs of responding to all FOI requests received during the week commencing 30 January 2006.

This survey will be completed on 20 March and is intended to reveal actual costs of handling FOI cases, and particularly the activities where most cost is incurred.