Information Access Team
Information Management Service
Financial & Commercial Group
2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF
Switchboard 020 7035 4848
E-mail: [email address] Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Mr. Derek Canning
[FOI #19128 email]
16th April 2009
Dear Mr. Canning,
Internal Review of Freedom of Information request – the safety of your
children
I write in response to your email of the 30th October 2009 in which you request an
Internal Review into the handling of your request under the Freedom of Information
Act for the following information:
1. Please supply all the information that you hold on the criteria for releasing
pictures of semi-naked children to the RSPB and the safeguard to protect
children from such events that have recently occurred.
2. Also, please supply all the information that you hold on the criteria for allowing
the RSPB access to pictures of children and where children actual live while
on police raids and the safeguards to protect our children. For example do the
RSPB have CRB checks like everyone else who could come in contact with
children and do the police check the CRB checks on each person on the raid?
3. Given the two questions above please supply all the information that you hold
on giving the RSPB unsupervised access to children’s pictures and where the
children actually live.
According to your page on the website
whatdotheyknow.com, you submitted this
request to the Home Office on the 1st October 2009. Unfortunately, following
searches of our correspondence tracking system and our FoI case register, I can
confirm that we have no record of receiving this request.
I would like to apologise for the fact that we did not receive your original request. It
is not often that we experience problems with receiving electronic correspondence
but problems do occasionally occur. I hope that this has not inconvenienced you
unduly.
We wil be happy to log your original request of the 1st October 2009 as a new
request under the Freedom of Information Act should you stil wish us to do so.
However in view of the passage of time, and the fact that we have no record of your
contacting us again about this matter, I am writing to ask whether you are stil
interested in the information that you requested. If so, please contact me at your
convenience and I wil be glad to treat this as a request under this Act.
May I take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the Home Office and for
your patience in this matter. I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Ian Lister
Information Access Consultant
Information Access Team
