Our Ref: FOI 2873

15^th May 2009

Email response to Mr Gareth Walker

Dear Mr Walker

Request for Information - Freedom of Information Act 2000

Further to your email dated 14^th May 2009 where you are requesting further information relating to a response provided to you:

Thanks for your response. You state that you don't record the actual cost of dealing with FOI requests but you do log the number of hours spent on them. Would it be possible then to provide me with the number of hours spent on FOI requests broken down in the same way by financial year instead.

As in our response to you dated 22^nd April 2009 where we provided the total number of Freedom of Information requests received from 2005 to end of 2008 (please see the table below).

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION FIGURES 2005-2008

As stated in our response that although we record the time spent on each request we do not record the cost of responding to each request. In order to provide you with a total number of hours spent on each FOI request, we would need to go into 2175 applications. This would exceed the fees limit, the appropriate limit specified in the regulations is £450.00.

If you are not satisfied with the response you may ask for an internal review. If subsequently you are not satisfied with the Council's decision you may apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at the following address:

The Information Commissioner

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Telephone: 01625 545745

Web Address: www.ico.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Corporate Information Governance Team

Department of Governance Telephone: 0121-303 4876

Corporate Information Governance Team Facsimile: 0121-675 1427

1^st Floor

1 Lancaster Circus

Birmingham B4 7DQ