20 February 2009

Mr S Hardwicke Carruthers

Via email ([FOI #4767 email])

Our ref: CS/08/0117/HJP

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Dear Mr Hardwicke Carruthers

Request for information

In your email of 13 December, you say that the “qualified person for the internal review was identified as having to be a Minister”.

You go on: “As Karney claims he is acting under the authorisation of the DCLG please provide copies of all correspondence with the Minister related to the claim for internal review.”

There is no correspondence with any Minister related to any claim for internal review, so I have no information that I can disclose to you.

There is also no correspondence with the Ombudsmen on this matter.

That concludes my response and I hope you find the information useful. If you feel I have not dealt properly with your request, you have the right to appeal and, should you wish to do so, I can supply a copy our internal complaints procedure. You also have the right to apply to the Information Commissioner to determine whether your request has been properly dealt with. You should note however that the Commissioner will not consider any complaint where you have not first exhausted our internal complaints process or where there has been undue delay in contacting him. You will be able to obtain further details of the Information Commissioner's role from the website on www.ico.gov.uk.

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Yours sincerely

H J Pook

Hilary Pook (Ms)

Communications and Records Manager

cc: Jenny Saunders, Information Commissioner's Office

LGO 01 (03/08)