Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:35:24 +0100
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Jonathan Djanogly expense claims
From: Ganesh Sittampalam <[FOI #13459 email]>
To: FOICOMMONS <[email address]>


Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of House of Commons's
handling of my FOI request 'Jonathan Djanogly expense claims'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/jonathan_djanogly_expense_claims

My request was for the full, unredacted text of the expense claims.
This information is not already reasonably available to me as you
have only published a redacted version. If you choose not to
release it unredacted, then you must provide a proper refusal
notice explaining what exemptions you are relying on for the
redactions, with enough detail so that your reasoning can be
challenged. This would not necessarily be for each redaction
individually, but the redactions as a whole would have to be
covered by the exemptions and explanations. It is well settled
precedent for the FOI act that the time spent on redaction or
writing a refusal notice can not be considered when applying the
cost limit.

In addition I would like you to review why it took almost the full
20 days to produce an essentially trivial refusal notice. I believe
you are in breach of the requirement in the act to respond
"promptly".

Yours faithfully,

Ganesh Sittampalam



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