Information Access Team

Shared Services Directorate

2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF

Switchboard 020 7035 4848 Fax: 020 7035 4745 Textphone: 020 7035 xxxx

E-mail: Info.Access@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk

David Johnson

[email address]

April 1, 2009

CR 11034

Dear Mr Johnson

I am writing further to my letter of 5^th February 2009, regarding your request for an internal review of the response to your Freedom of Information request for details about who keeps copies of penalty notices issued by Accredited Persons.

I have now completed a full and independent review of this matter and come to the following conclusions.

After consultation with all relevant parties, I have found that your request was initially incorrectly transferred to the MOJ as standard correspondence, rather than treated as a FOI request. I am sorry for this error, and apologise for any inconvenience it has caused.

Once the error had been identified, and the letter passed to the relevant unit in the Home Office, I can confirm that their original decision to inform you that the Home Office does not hold the requested information to be correct. The person who dealt with your original request made enquiries, confirmed that the Home Office does not hold the information, and that this request is now for the Ministry of Justice to deal with. This is because the unit which deals with these matters transferred to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) in May 2007.

You were provided with contact details for MOJ in a letter dated 4^th February 2009 and if you submit your request to them, they may be able to provide you with the information you require. In case you did not receive the letter, these details are:

Ministry of Justice

102 Petty France

London

SW1H 9AJ

Telephone 020 3334 3555

Fax 020 3334 4455

e-mail [email address]

Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review you have a further right of complaint to the Information Commissioner who can be contacted at the following address:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmore

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Diana Pottinger

Information Access Consultant