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. Pete John
Case Ref:
CR13651
[FOI #25167 email] Date:
28th January 2010
Dear Mr. John,
I write in response to your Freedom of Information Act request submitted to the
Home Office on the 30th December 2009 in which you asked for information
concerning the second phase of the European Commission Infringement case
64/08/INSO.
We have considered your request and we deem it to be vexatious when considered
in conjunction with the previous requests you have submitted regarding Phorm, 121
Media, BT, Virgin Media and Deep Packet Inspection. 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 this request is vexatious because it meets 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 case 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 also note that, should we consider that any future requests on this topic to
also be vexatious, we wil not respond to them.
Yours sincerely,
Ian Lister
Information Access Consultant
Information Access Team
