17 February 2010

17 February 2010 LBH56462-10

Dear Mr Campbell

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your email of 20 January 2010 in which you requested information regarding the 100 most recent FOI requests received by Hackney Council.

Your request has been considered and the information requested is below:

(1) The date the request was received by the council.

(2) The summary subject of the request - in less than 20 words.

Please find attached a spreadsheet including the receipt date of each request, a short summary and the date on which a final response was given.

(3) The date the request was acknowledged.

(4) The date the initial final response was given

Please see the response to Questions 1 and 2.

(5) The status of this response, ie met, not held, rejected

I can confirm that we do hold this information but unfortunately it is not in an easily retrievable format nor is there an automated mechanism that would allow us to easily collate the required data.

The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 has set the appropriate limit as £450 based on a charge at £25 per hour.

Section 12 of the Act states that the Council is not obliged to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the costs of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.

The appropriate limit is represented by the estimated cost of one person spending 2½ working days in determining whether the Council holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information requested. Consequently the Council is not obliged to respond to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

In order to collate this information, the council would need to manually search through each of the 100 FOI requests listed to ascertain its status. The council estimates that this activity would exceed the appropriate limit. Therefore, the information is exempt by virtue of Section 12 of the Act.

(6) Whether an Internal Review was requested, and if so the date on

which this was completed and the outcome status.

The council has received one internal review which was received on 12 February 2010. The review has not yet been completed.

(7) Whether the FOI Request to the council's knowledge was referred

to the ICO.

Not applicable

(8) Whether the ICO issued any guidance or instruction to the

council following this referral.

Not applicable

(9) The final outcome after the ICO referral.

Not applicable

Please note the information is still covered by copyright legislation. You are not authorised to re-use this information for commercial or research purposes as defined by the Re-Use of Public Sector Regulations 2005. If you do wish to re-use this information please contact the Information Governance Team, 6-15 Florfield Road, Hackney London E8 1DT.

If you are dissatisfied with this response and wish to appeal, please write to the Information Governance Team, Appeals, 6-15 Florfield Road, Hackney London E8 1DT and your complaint will be dealt with through our Internal Review procedure.

If you are still not satisfied following the Internal Review, you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner. He can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Tat-Pheng Lay

Freedom of Information Assistant