The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI Act) aims to make information held by public authorities more accessible to the public, and allows individuals and companies to request a wide variety of material.

It also requires the Department to publish pro-actively a wide variety of information, so if you are interested in finding out about any transport-related issue, please first check our website to see whether the information has already been published.

The Department for Transport, like all other government departments, is a “public authority” to which the FOI Act and The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) apply.

The Department is comprised of a central policy organisation and seven executive agencies. The executive agencies are part of the Department for this and other purposes – they have no separate legal identity and are not public authorities in their own right.

Before you make a FOI or EIR request to any part of DfT please read:

• Accessing information from any part of DfT

DfT and DSA FOI responses

The Department aims to publish all responses to FOI and EIR requests where the information disclosed has a wider public interest. All responses issued since the beginning of 2011 are searchable by transport mode. Responses published during previous years are listed in month-order.

• 2012 DfT FOI responses
• 2012 DSA FOI responses
• 2011 DfT FOI responses
• 2011 DSA FOI responses
• 2010 DfT and DSA FOI responses
• 2009 DfT and DSA FOI responses
• 2008 DfT and DSA FOI responses
• 2007 DfT and DSA FOI responses
• 2006 DfT and DSA FOI responses
• 2005 DfT and DSA FOI responses

To preserve the integrity of the original documents, all files have been provided in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format and have not been formatted for accessibility.

Some responses consist of large numbers of documents that are not held in an electronic format. Where practical, these documents have been scanned and made them available on the DfT website.

In certain cases, however, the volume of files involved has made this impractical and the Department has been forced to provide the information requested in a hard copy format only. For information about how to access any such material, or to see any response in an accessible format, please call 0300 330 3000.