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UK Border Agency Freedom of Information Team Employment Routes Home Office PO Box 3468 Sheffield S3 8WA
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Ron French
mailto:[FOI #10642 email]
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Fax +44 (0)114 207 2906 Email Freedomofinformation.employment @ukba.gsi.gov.uk
Web www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk |
4 August 2009 |
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Ref: 12147/1024 |
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Dear Ron,
Thank you for your enquiry of 11 June in which you have requested management/team structure details for Sponsor Licensing Unit staff. Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am sorry for the delay in my response.
Please see the attached Sponsor Licensing Unit Organisational Chart as of 27 July 2009 and information regarding process/location.
Applications are completed on line.
The Sponsor Application Online Submission sheets are printed, signed and forwarded to our partners in Durham for payment clearance. Required documents should be enclosed.
Applications are received in Sheffield electronically and placed in queue awaiting caseworking.
If an application requires a visit, the case is referred to a Sponsor Management Unit visiting team, who are based in each of our six regions: Scotland and Northern Ireland, London and the South East, Wales and the South West, Midlands and East of England, North East Yorkshire and the Humber and the North West.
In respect of your request, I can confirm that the Department does hold the information you requested. However, it is the general policy of the UK Border Agency not to disclose, to a third party, personal information about another person. This is because the UK Border Agency has obligations under the Data Protection Act and in law generally to protect this information. We have therefore withheld the names of staff contained within the information disclosed.
Your request has been considered in line with the UK Border Agency's obligations under the Freedom of Information Act. It has been concluded that the information you have requested is exempt under Section 40(3) of that Act. Section 40(3) of the Freedom of Information Act provides that information will be exempt from disclosure if disclosure would breach any of the Data Protection principles. We have concluded that the information which you have requested would breach the first Data Protection principle and therefore we cannot supply the full information you have requested.
If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the UK Border Agency sending a substantive reply to your original request and should be addressed to:
Information Access Policy Team
(Freedom of Information Team)
11th floor (short corridor)
Lunar House
40 Wellesley Road
Croydon
CR9 2BY
During the independent review, the department's handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response.
Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you will have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Yours sincerely
Sandra Birkinshaw
Freedom of Information Team
UK Border Agency