When it comes to the government, which then would be a decision by a minister or ministers, the issue is referred to a government decision on appeal on that. That would be the procedure.
When it comes to the constitutional committee in our Parliament that scrutinizes and reviews on a regular basis all the different ministers that work in relation to openness when it comes to public documents, they have an annual administrative scrutiny of each minister. Within that review, they can also report on delays and malpractices in relation to the release of documents.
It can also be done on demand from a parliamentarian. A parliamentarian can ask the constitutional committee to look into a ministry's habit or practice when it comes to release of documents. For example, in my ministry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are, on an annual basis, a number of issues for which the minister has to report to the constitutional committee on these matters. It can concern both secrecy and the time delay, the timing.
Then we have our ombudsman, who follows the whole public administration. The ombudsman works on a complaint basis and makes recommendations to the administration on how it should relate to a request for the release of a document or documents. In a number of cases, the ombudsman has said that a release should be done “immediately”—that's the word I referred to—which means the same day. If an official, a public servant in the Swedish ministry, gets a request, it's mainly for that person to act immediately. If it's a more complicated matter, it can be referred to the head of the department and finally to the minister, but it is for each public servant to act immediately when they get a request for the release of a public document.
I would say that we have a culture of openness, which leads to relatively few formal complaints to courts and government, but I will come back with the exact numbers.