Dr Geraint Bevan

Email: [FOI #23769 email]

Reference: FOICR 13432/09

Date: 11 January 2010

Dear Dr Bevan

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your e-mail of 25 November in which you ask for information about the National Identity Register. Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

You asked :-

Please will you let me know what proportion of people currently

enrolled on the National Identity Register are employed by the Home

Office?

We believe that the information you have requested is already reasonably accessible to you. It can be found on the House of Commons website as a written response to a Hansard PQ record, reference number PQ 303782, on the following link :- http://www.publications.parliament.uk/cgi-bin/semaphoreserver?DB=semukparl&FILE=search

Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act exempts the Home Office from having to provide you with this information, because it is already in the public domain. If you have any difficulties in accessing this information at the source which I have indicated, please contact me again.

If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to the address below, quoting reference FOICR 13432/09

Information Access Team

Home Office
Ground Floor, Seacole Building

2 Marsham Street

London SW1P 4DF

E-mail: info.access@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request will be reassessed by members of staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours faithfully

H Reid

Freedom of Information Team

Passport Adviceline: 0300 222 0000 (07.00 - 23.00 seven days a week).

Email us at [Identity & Passport Service request email]. Visit our website at www.ips.gov.uk.

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