Information Access Team
Shared Services Directorate
2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF
Switchboard 020 7035 4848 Fax: 020 7035 4745 Textphone: 020 7035 xxxx
E-mail: [email address] Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Phillip Main
[FOI #19885 email]
23 December 2009
Ref: CR13023
Dear Mr Main
Thank you for your e-mail of 17 December in which you ask for an internal
review of the time taken to respond to your Freedom of Information request
about protests and protesters at the BT AGM held on 16 July 2008.
I have consulted with the policy unit which dealt with your original request,
and they have confirmed that a response was sent to you on 21 October
2009, which was within the prescribed 20 day limit. As you appear not to
have received this response, a copy is attached at Annex A.
If you remain dissatisfied with this response to your complaint, you have the
right of complaint to the Information Commissioner at the following address:
The Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Yours sincerely
Diana Pottinger
Information Access Consultant
Direct Communications Unit
2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF
Switchboard 020 7035 4848 Fax: 020 7035 4745 Textphone: 020 7035 4742
E-mail: [Home Office request email] Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
[FOI #19885 email]
Mr Phillip Main
Reference: T17666/9
Dear Mr Main,
Thank you for your e-mail of 8th October 2009 requesting information in light
of Baroness Mil er’s recent question in which she asked;
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the remarks by Lord West of
Spithead on 23 April (HL Deb, col. 1672), when he wil write concerning the
review of a Home Office document by a private company with commercial
interests in the advice under consideration and the decision by the
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to give
confidential police information regarding a protest to a private company with
commercial interests in the matter."
In relation to this question you requested the following disclosure of
information;
• The disclosure of correspondence between BERR/BIS and British
Telecom, and BERR/BIS and Phorm, concerning protests and
protesters at the BT AGM (held on 16 July 2008)
• The disclosure any correspondence between BERR/BIS and British
Telecom, and BERR/BIS and Phorm, concerning protests and
protesters at the BT AGM (held on 15 July 2009)
• The disclosure of what personal information about protesters was
provided to companies concerned, and what information was received.
After a thorough search, I regret to inform you that the Home Office does not
hold the information that you have requested.
If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent
internal review of our handling of your request by submitting your complaint
within two months to the below address quoting reference:
13023
Information Rights Team
Information and Record Management Service
Home Office
4th Floor, Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
Email: [email address]
During the independent review the department’s handling of your information
request wil be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you
with this response. Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review,
you wil have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as
established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Yours sincerely
J Fanshaw
