Richard,

The key document is the table.  In the e-mail the terminology may be incorrect; "accepted" means received and treated as a valid request. Invalid requests are not logged. They might be legally invalid, but they could also relate to the work of another public authority such as the County Council, to whom the enquirer would be referred without the request having been processed here. "Rejected" means refused having regard to one of the statutory exemptions.  Please bear in mind that the main objective for which records are kept is to enable us to track compliance with the 20-working-day compliance period.

Regards,
David.
David Edwards
Interim Solicitor, Rother D.C.
Town Hall, Bexhill TN39 3JX Tel: 01424-787840
www.rother.gov.uk

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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Jackson [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx]
Sent: 31 July 2008 16:10
To: David Edwards
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Breakdown on FOI Requests and Rejections

     David,

     Thank you for this response. Can you please clarify the wording
     used though, as I'm not sure what (for example) "99 accepted of
     which 3 were rejected" actually means. Does "accepted" simply mean
     "received" here, or do you have some other categorisation whereby
     requests can be received but not accepted? I'm a little unclear as
     to how a request can be both accepted and rejected.

     Thanks,

     Richard

    

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