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Please contact: Sue Hardy
PA to Assistant Director (Frontline Taskforce)
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Our ref: SMH/RFI/2881
Date: 18 September 2009
Mr N Houston
By e-mail: [FOI #16902 email] |
Frontline Services Regeneration, Community and Culture Medway Council Civic Headquarters Gun Wharf Dock Road Chatham Kent ME4 4TR Telephone: 01634 331376 Facsimile: 01634 331613 Email: [email address] |
Dear Mr Houston
Request for Information Reference Number: RFI/2881
I am writing in respect of your recent enquiry for information held by the Council under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.
I can confirm that the council holds the information, but not in the detailed format requested by you.
The council has now assessed your request and considers that the costs of compliance with the request will exceed the “appropriate limit”, as referred to in section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The appropriate limit for local authorities is £450 or 2½ working days.
Under the Act the council has the right to decline to comply with a request where the appropriate limit is exceeded. In this case the council has decided not to comply with the request and will not be supplying the information requested.
The Parking Team does not have a systems administrator that is solely designated to data extraction or system analysis. This work is carried out by an external provider (ICES) for our parking gateway system, which I can confirm is not an oracle-based system; we currently run a Sequel based system.
Contact has been made with our service provider, ICES, who have, unfortunately, stated that they do not have the resources available to them to extract this level of information that has been requested. Even though Medway Council administer the database, we do not have the knowledge of the structure or the data contained within it to be able to provide the information required.
As stated in my previous letter to you, to provide you with this information would be very time consuming in that we would have to manually open and assess each case, and to do this would exceed the appropriate time limit for FOI requests.
If you are unhappy with the decision we have made or wish to complain about any other issue regarding the Freedom of Information Act 2000 please see the attached handout `Request for Information Complaints Procedures'.
For further information on the Freedom of Information 2000, the exemptions and how requests are dealt with at Medway Council you can log onto the website at www.medway.gov.uk/freedomofinformation.
Yours sincerely.
S Hardy
Sue Hardy
PA to Assistant Director (Frontline Taskforce)
Enc: Request for Information Complaints Procedures
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