Information Access Team
Information Management Service
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Mr Alex Skene
Our Ref
9526
Your Ref
Date
9 March 2010
[FOI #803 email]
Dear Mr Skene
PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPH TEMPLATES AND SPECIFICATIONS
I am writing in relation to your Freedom of Information (FOI) request about
templates for passport photos and the technical specifications for photo
measurements, the response to which is now under consideration by the
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
The ICO has pointed out that at the time of our internal review you were not
provided with a copy of, or access to, the photo template in use at the time of
your request. I apologise for this and enclose a copy of that in use in the
summer of 2008, when you made your original request. I hope that you wil find
it of interest.
As you wil be aware the ICO is considering our use of exemptions in relation to
the technical specifications for photo measurements, so far as they are not
already in the public domain. When the ICO has considered this matter they wil
inform us both of their findings.
Yours sincerely
Oliver Lendrum
Information Access Manager
cc: ICO
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