This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'Requirement for NHS numbers to register a birth'.
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 
 
Our reference: 14091 
 
Date: 28 May 2010 
Dear Mr Leaton, 
Freedom of Information request (our ref. 14091): internal review 
 
Thank you for your e-mail of 30 April 2010, in which you asked for an internal 
review of our response to your Freedom of Information (FoI) request about 
NHS numbers and birth registration.  
 
I have now completed the review. I have examined all the relevant papers 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 main conclusion is that the 
original response was substantively correct, although we were at fault in not 
responding within 20 working days and could have provided more advice and 
assistance to you. 
 
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