Dr Geraint Bevan

Email: [FOI #24020 email]

Reference: FOICR 13525/09

Date: 19 January 2010

Dear Dr Bevan

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your e-mail of 30 November in which you ask for information about cost information for the ID launch event at the Manchester Printworks. Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

You asked:-

a) the total cost of the event;

The total cost of the event was £500.

b) a detailed breakdown of the costs, including the amount paid to each company.

£500 was paid to Pure, for the use of a meeting room for a stakeholder engagement event and the provision of a sandwich lunch.

c) how many people applied for enrolment on the National Identity Register on that day.

It is not clear, from your email, exactly what information you require. To help us to deal with your request properly, I would be grateful if you could clarify it. From your request it is not clear whether you are asking for the number that enrolled on that day in general, or the number that enrolled on that day specifically at the launch event.

Once you provide this information, we will aim to send you a full response to your request within twenty working days. If we do not receive clarification of your request within three months from the date of this letter, we will consider this request to be closed.

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 13525/09

Information Access Team

Home Office
Ground Floor, Seacole Building

2 Marsham Street

London SW1P 4DF

E-mail: [email address]

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 sincerely

F Belai

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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