Information Access Team
Shared Services Directorate
2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF
Switchboard 020 7035 4848
E-mail: [email address] Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Dear Mr Sittampalam,
Freedom of Information request (our ref. 13754): internal review
Thank you for your e-mail of 4 March 2010, in which you asked for an internal
review of our response to your Freedom of Information (FoI) request about the
handling of your previous FoI request – reference: 12862.
I have now completed the review. I have examined all the relevant papers,
including the information that was withheld from you, and have consulted the
policy unit which provided the original response. I have considered whether
the correct procedures were followed and assessed the reasons why
information was withheld from you. I confirm that I was not involved in the
initial handling of your request.
My findings are set out in the attached report. My conclusion is that the
original response was correct, although we were at fault in not informing you
within 20 working days that additional time would be required to consider your
request.
I am happy to talk to you about our conclusions; if you wish to contact me
please do so at the email address this correspondence was dispatched from.
This completes the internal review process by the Home Office. If you remain
dissatisfied with the response to your FoI request, you have the right of
complaint to the Information Commissioner at the following address:
The Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Yours sincerely
Robert Clifford
Information Access Team
