2009 documents

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please provide copies of all agenda's minutes and reports
associated with all Commission for Local Administration in England
meetings for 2009.

Please additionally identify the criteria as agreed by the CLAE for
identifying which documents should be identifoed as confidential.

Yours faithfully,

Stuart HARDWICKE CARRUTHERS

Dear Foi Officer,

It is nearly April.. and the first meeting in 2009 was identified
as being in January.. what timescale does the CLAE work to whe
identifying future publication.. six months later.. three months
later. a glob of years later?

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Foi Officer,

when and will the CLAE be appointing an assistant - as if they were
not an information based organisation they would not have these
problems.

The OFT have just identified that the CLAE is responsible for all
the misleading advertisements on Council Websites.. like 'we have a
complaints system that follows these processess', and we must 'meet
foi requests within 20 working days'.. this maladministration seems
to be causing significant problems.. and who can argue with the OFT
?

It might be worth pointing out to the CLAE that this could very
soon be identified to them.. and that there are about 400
council's.. so there could be dramatic growth in records management
activities.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Local Government
Ombudsmen's handling of my FOI request '2009 documents'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/20...

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Foi Officer,

many thanks... you can cease the internal review with respect to
this issue. it is noted from the minutes that a 2008 triennial
review document is available

it is normal practice to publish agenda's prior to the minutes..
quite possibly something to consider ? and that might easily become
subject to FoI requests.

I have just done an analysis.. and it turns out that about 80 per
cent of the FoI requests that I have made all relate to minutes and
agenda items..

I would anticipate that their publication has reduced the FoI
requests.

I can't see any good reason why some of the contents (agenda items)
are regarded as confidential.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS