Please ask for:
Lynn Wyeth
Direct Line:
0116 252 7605
E-mail:
[email address]
Fax:
(0116) 252 7936
Our Ref:
FOIA 3224
Date:
11th December 2009
Mr Christian Lister
[FOI #23289 email]
Dear Mr. Lister
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 Your request for information has now been considered and the Council’s
response to your questions is shown below.
REQUEST
How many searches have been produced since the introduction of the
Home Information Pack regulations to the date of this request?
ANSWER
Home Information Packs (HIPs) were introduced on 1 August 2007. From that
day up to and including 16 November 2009 we have carried out a total of
13958 searches.
The legislation allows you to use the information supplied for your own
personal use. Please be aware that any commercial or other use, for example
publication, sale, or redistribution may be a breach of copyright under the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended unless you obtain the
copyright holder's prior permission.
Not all the information that is supplied which is covered by copyright will be
the Council's copyright, for example it may be the copyright of a government
department or another Council. You should seek either the Council’s consent
or their consent as appropriate. The Council is willing to advise you of any
such potential issues on request. In order to make a request to re-use the
information please contact the Head of Information Governance using the
details below.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request please write to:
Head of Information Governance Information Services Leicester City Council,
FREEPOST (LE985/33)
New Walk Centre, LEICESTER LE1 6ZG e-mail:
[email address]
Your request for internal review should be submitted to the above address
within 40 (forty) working days of receipt by you of this response. Any such
request received after this time will only be considered at the Council’s
absolute discretion.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Please be aware that the Information Commissioner does not normally
consider appeals or complaints until the internal appeals and complaints
processes of the public authority which is answering the request have been
exhausted. You are therefore advised to complain or appeal to Head of
Information Governance before contacting the Commissioner.
Yours sincerely
Lynn Wyeth
Information Governance
Information and Support