Foreign & 
 
Commonwealth 
 
Office 
4 August 2009 
 
 
Information Rights Team 
 
Room SG/127 
  
Old Admiralty Building 
  
London 
John Simpson 
SW1A 2PA 
 
 
Tel: 020 7008 1224 
By e-mail to 
Fax: 020 7008 1114 
[email address] 
E-mail: [email address] 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FOI REQUEST REF: 0533-09 
 
I am writing regarding your request for information, which we received on 07 July 2009.  In 
that request, you asked us for a list of which countries the United Kingdom holds summits or 
relations with officially using the term “Anglo”. 
 
Officially Her Majesty’s Government do not use the term “Anglo” for any relations or 
summits:  “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” is the country’s formal 
title and should be used in full in international agreements and other official documents.  The 
term “Anglo” and the abbreviation “UK” should be avoided in formal contexts.  Information 
on the use of the term unofficially, is not centrally held and would mean contacting every 
department within the FCO to search for that information.   
 
Therefore, we estimate that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the 
appropriate limit of £600. The appropriate limit has been specified in regulations and for 
central Government it is set at £600. This represents the estimated cost of one person 
spending 3½ working days in determining whether the Department holds the information, and 
locating, retrieving and extracting the information. Under section 12 of the Freedom of 
Information Act the Department is not obliged to comply with your request and we will not 
be processing your request further. 
 
If you were to make a new request for a more narrow category of information, it may be that 
we could comply with that request within the appropriate limit, although I cannot guarantee 
that this will be the case, and it may help if I outline some possible ways of narrowing your 
request. You may wish to confine your request to correspondence from a particular 
department or departments which uses the phrase.  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 

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Any reformulated request the department receives from you will be treated as a fresh 
Freedom of Information request. 
 
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to 
make a complaint or request a review of our decision, you should write to me within 40 
working days. 
 
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply directly to the 
Information Commissioner for a decision.  Generally, the Information Commissioner cannot 
make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the FCO. 
The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner's Office, 
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brian Dorrington 
Information Rights Team 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Data Protection Act 1998 
 
The FCO processes personal data as notified to the Information Commissioner (www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk) for the purpose of 
working for the UK's interests in a safe, just and prosperous world.  Such personal data  may be shared with other UK Government 
Departments and public authorities. 
 
 
 
 
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