Latest updates - 17 October 2024
17 October 2024
- Additional support is provided to help public authorities check that no exempt personal data is disclosed in response to requests in the section of Personal Information.
- Other changes are simply stylistic.
This guidance explains the provisions about datasets in detail and is aimed at public authorities. The dataset provisions give detail about providing datasets in response to requests and making them available as part of your publication scheme. Read this guidance if you have questions not answered in the Guide, or if you need a deeper understanding of how the dataset provisions apply in practice.
- Overview
- What is the scope and purpose of the dataset provisions?
- How do we provide a dataset in response to a request?
- Datasets
- What’s meant by ‘capable of re-use’?
- What is meant by ‘reasonable practicable’?
- Should we license re-use under FOIA or the RPSI?
- How do we license re-use under FOIA?
- Fees
- Publication schemes
- Complaints
- Environmental information
- Practical issues
- Further reading
- Annex 1: Datasets flowcharts