The Council of Transparency and Good Governance, an independent authority responsible for ensuring public transparency, received in 2025 A total of 2,767 claims submitted by citizens who disagree with the Administration’s response (or lack of response) to their requests for information. This means that 40.2% more claims have been filed than in 2024.

Of them, 1,778 files correspond to claims against the organs and bodies of the State Administration (27.3% more than in 2024). The rest of the complaints received (989 files) were presented in front of the Administrations, agencies and entities of autonomous and local scope of the autonomous communities that have attributed to the Council the exercise of competence in this matter through the corresponding convention (Principality of Asturias, Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Extremadura, La Rioja, Ceuta and Melilla), which represents 71.7% more than in 2024.

With regard to the claims processing activity carried out by the Council, In 2025 it has resolved a total of 2,234 filespractically the same number of resolutions as the previous year. Of these, 1,577 correspond to claims at the state level, and the rest to claims at the regional and local levels. These figures assume that the Council has resolved an average of 186 cases per month in its work defending the right of citizens to access public information held by the Administrations.

They are data of the provisional balance sheet of the activity carried out in the year 2025 by the Council, which is preparing its annual report, where more detailed information will be provided on the activity of the institution in terms of the right of access and on the other functional areas of the body, such as the evaluation of compliance with the obligations of active publicity.

In the state-level cases resolved, the Council has issued statement in favour of the claimant in six out of ten files admitted to the proceedings (65.9% of the cases), either by fully estimating the claims; partially, by urging the Administration and the state public bodies to submit part of the requested information; or for formal reasons, that is, when the Administration has provided the requested information only after the intervention of the Transparency Council, transferring the claim, thereby infringing its right to receive the information within the legal time period established by the Transparency Law.

Specifically, of the 1,577 claims admitted for processing, in 976 the Council resolved in favour of the claimant: in 46 per cent of them, urging the Administration to provide all the information requested; in 14 per cent, to provide some of the information; and in 40 per cent of the files, the estimate was for formal reasons. In another 389 cases, the claim has been dismissed, confirming that the denial of the requested information was in accordance with the law. The remainder of the claims were filed (99), mostly due to the claimant’s withdrawal; inadmissible (97) due to failure to comply with legal requirements; or suspended (16) due to pending judicial review of the matter.

With regard to the cause that motivated the submission of the claims at State level, and as the Council has repeatedly denounced, in a very high percentage, 45.5% of cases, citizens had to resort to this institution because they had not received any response from the Administration to their request for information.