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
Dennis Fallon
[FOI #30542 email]
11 April 2010
Ref:CR14312
Dear Mr Fallon
I am writing further to my e-mail of 23 March, about your request for details of
IMS staffing levels. Your request has been handled as a request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We are now in a
position to provide a ful reply to your request.
I am able to disclose the information set out in the enclosed Annex A.
I hope that this information meets your requirements. I would like to assure
you that we have provided you with all relevant information that the Home
Office holds.
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you will find the complaints
procedure at Annex B.
Yours sincerely
Diana Pottinger
Information Access Team
Annex A – requested information
Q1
How many full and part time staff currently work within IMS for the purposes of
Information Management?
Team
Full time
Part time
Customer liaison team
25
3
Information and Library team
6
2
Information Access team
11
Leadership and business support
4
The Information Access team deal with FOI requests
Q2
How many FOI requests were received during the past 12 months?
How many requests were completed during the past 12 months?
How many of these completed requests were followed by requests for appeal
process?
Freedom of Information requests Feb 09 -Jan 10
Total requests received
2467
Total requests completed
2379
Number of appeals
146
You can find quarterly statistics for the Home Office’s (and other government
departments’) performance on FOI on the Ministry of Justice website at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/freedomofinformationquarterly.htm
Q3
What is the current IMS workload regarding number of FOI requests pending
initial
completion
And pending completion of the appeal process
Current workload
Initial requests
59
Appeals: Internal reviews
29
ICO complaints: initial investigation,
29
awaiting decision notice, or under
consideration for appeal to tribunal
Q4
Who is the person who will be responsible for finally authorising the release of
the response to my appeal ref FOI 11156?
You received a full response to this appeal on 21 August 2009.
Annex B – complaints procedure
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 reference 14312. If you ask
for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are
dissatisfied with the response.
Information Access Team
Home Office
Ground Floor, Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
e-mail: [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.
