FOI laws have been created so that the public can gain information about the internal workings of the government - and the scope is deliberately wide. It includ

FOI laws have been created so that the public can gain information about the internal workings of the government - and the scope is deliberately wide. It includes activities that you or me may not consider worthwhile, but that’s our judgment call. If handling FOI requests overloads the departments, then the answer would be to just make the information accessible to the public from the outset or supply sufficient funding to the departments so that they can provide the services required by law, including answering FOI requests.