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
Phillip Main
[FOI #45890 email]
2 September 2010
Dear Mr Main,
Freedom of Information request – our ref: 15946
I write in response to your Freedom of Information Act request of 31 August
2010 relating to 121media and Phorm.
We have considered your request and we consider it to be vexatious when
considered in conjunction with the previous requests you have submitted on
this topic. Section 14(1) of the Act provides that the Home Office is not
obliged to comply with a request for information of this nature if it is
considered as vexatious.
We have decided that these requests are vexatious because, in our view, it
meets with the criteria laid out by the Information Commissioner’s Office. A
copy of this guidance can be found here –
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/freedom_of_information/detail
ed_specialist_guides/awareness_guidance_22_vexatious_and_repeated_req
uests_final.pdf
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 relevant 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 will not respond to them.
Yours sincerely,
L. Fisher
