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Ref:09FOI 270
4 September 2009
David Jones
request-14887-
[email address]
Dear Mr Jones
Thank you for your letter of 1 September, requesting an internal review of Wales Office’s
handling of your Freedom of Information request “recruitment”.
I will of course now conduct the necessary review, and respond to you as soon as I can. I
cannot say precisely how long it will take. I am leaving Wales Office at the end of this
month, and I shall endeavour to deal with this before I go, not leaving it unresolved for my
successor.
Our reply to your request acknowledged that it was outside the statutory deadline,
explained that this was because key staff were away in August, and apologised. I should
like to offer my own personal apology for this Office’s failure to meet the deadline.
You make a very serious allegation, of deliberate misinterpretation of your request in order
to avoid answering truthfully, which I take very seriously. I should find it deeply disturbing
if, on investigation, I were to find that it had been so.
It appears from your letter, especially the reference to knowing of many more cases, that
you have some specific concern in mind. I am keen to ensure that I can investigate
thoroughly and direct myself fully to your concerns. It must be for you to choose what you
are ready to tell me, but I believe it would help me to give you a better answer if you were
willing to share with me any more specific information which has given rise to your distrust
of my Office’s honesty in handling your request.
Would you be ready to elaborate a little, in a message, or in private discussion, to aid my
review?
Alan Cogbill
Director
Cardiff Office / Swyddfa Caerdydd
Wales Office, Discovery House, Scott Harbour, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF10 4HA.
Swyddfa Cymru, Tŷ Discovery, Harbwr Scott, Bae Caerdydd, Caerdydd, CF10 4HA.
Website: www.walesoffice.gov.uk / Gwefan: www.swyddfa.cymru.gov.uk
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