Information Access Team
Information Management Service
Financial & Commercial Group
2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF
Switchboard 020 7035 4848
E-mail: [email address] Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Mr. Philip Main
[email address]
[email address]
[FOI #24823 email]
Date:
6th January 2010
Dear Mr. Main,
I write in response to three Freedom of Information Act requests that you submitted
to the Home Office, two on the 7th December and one on the 17th December 2009.
These requests were for:
• information about Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC (Home Office FoI
reference
CR 13531);
• information referred to in an press office email circulation dated the 9th
September 2008 (Home Office FoI reference
CR 13647); and
• a clarification to a response provided to another FoI applicant (Mr. P John)
regarding RIPA (Home Office FoI reference
CR 13690)
We have considered your requests and we consider them to be vexatious when
considered in conjunction with the previous requests you have submitted on this
topic. Section 14(1) of the Act provides that the Home Office is not obliged to
comply with a request for information of this nature. We have decided that these
requests are vexatious because they meet with the criteria laid out by the
Information Commissioner’s Office. A copy of this guidance can be viewed here –
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/freedom_of_information/detailed_sp
ecialist_guides/awareness_guidance_22_vexatious_and_repeated_requests_final.p
df
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 the relevant reference number above.
Information Access Team
Home Office
Ground Floor, Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
Alternatively, you can email: [email address]
As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request
wil be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this
response. If 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.
Please note that, should we consider any future requests on this topic to be
vexatious, we will not respond to them.
Yours sincerely,
Ian Lister
Information Access Consultant
Information Access Team
