Our Ref: FOI/VN/iw09/10/20196

15 October 2009

Dear Mr Figg

Freedom of Information request ref. iw09/10/20196

Thank you for your information request dated 12 October 2009 relating to costs of dog service vans.

Unfortunately, I have estimated that the time it will take to determine if the Council holds the information, including locating, retrieving and extracting the information, to enable us to respond to your request, will exceed the fee limit as set out in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulation 2004. This limit takes account of previous requests dealt with within the last 60 days for the same or similar information. Therefore, the Council is not obliged to provide a response.

For information purposes, the fee limit set down by the Lord Chancellor is £450 and in our case this equates to a maximum of 18 hours of search and retrieval time.

If you have any complaints in respect of your information request, please write to the Corporate Information Unit at the above address, or complete the on-line appeals form that can be found at www.iwight.com/information. If your complaint is not resolved to your complete satisfaction, you have the ultimate right, once you have exhausted the internal appeals process, to appeal to the Information Commissioner.

Yours sincerely

Vanda Niemiec (Miss)

For Director of Corporate Services

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