A drop in the number of council Freedom of Information requests being answered on time has been partly blamed on high profile council projects.
In 2021/22, South Ayrshire Council received 928 FOI requests. As a number required responses from different departments, the total number of requests processed was 1,163.
In a report to the council’s service and performance panel, it was revealed that there was a drop in the number of requests answered within the statutory 20 working days, from 85 percent in 2020/21 to 72 percent in 2021/22.