Make a freedom of information (FOI) request to DBT
How to make a freedom of information (FOI) request to the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).
Use this service to request information from the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000. You can also use this form to request environmental information under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. You do not need to tell us which law or regulation you are making your request under.
If you would like to request personal information about yourself, or about another living person with their permission, please submit a subject access request instead.
For general enquiries that are not requesting recorded information from the department, please email enquiries@businessandtrade.gov.uk.
Start your FOI request
You will need to provide us with:
- your name
- email or postal address (if you don’t have an email address)
- details of the information that you are requesting
We will respond to your request within 20 working days (excluding weekends and UK bank holidays) and will contact you directly if we need to clarify your request.
The form will take about 5 minutes to complete.
Our privacy notice explains how we will process any personal information which you share with us.
If you would prefer, you can also contact us by email or by post at:
Old Admiralty Building, Admiralty Place
London
SW1A 2DY
United Kingdom
What information you can request from us
You have the right to request recorded information which we hold. This includes electronic or paper copies of formal documents, like policies or minutes of meetings. You can also request information held in other kinds of records like emails, photographs or audio recordings.
The laws that give you this right of access are:
If you ask for information, we must provide it unless we have a good reason not to. We can refuse your request if it is vexatious, repeated or if it would cost too much to comply. We may also apply an ‘exemption’ under the FOIA or an ‘exception’ under the EIR to refuse, or partially refuse to disclose information.