Information Access Team 
Financial and Commercial Group 
4th Floor, Seacole Building (NE) 
 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF 
Switchboard 020 7035 4848 
E-mail info.access @homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk   www.homeoffice.gov.uk 
Ganesh Sittampalam 
Our Ref  11435 
Your Ref 
 
Request-9214-
Date  
24 April 2009 
[email address]
Dear Mr Sittampalam 
 
When I wrote to you on 14 April acknowledging receipt of your request for a review of the 
handling of the request for information you sent asking for details of Home Office funding 
made available to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), I said I had been asked to 
carry out that review.  The purpose of this letter is to let you know the outcome of that review. 
 
In order to carry out my review of the handling of your request, I discussed it with the Home 
Office unit where it is being considered.  I established that your request was received at the 
Home Office on 10 March and was due to be replied to by 7 April.  I understand that due to 
unexpected absences from within their team your request was delayed.  I acknowledge that 
the Home Office has therefore breached the statutory deadline contained in section 10(1) of 
the Act in this case. I apologise for this and regret that you were not at least contacted to 
explain that there would be a delay.  I have recommended to the unit that they should let 
applicants know if there is to be a delay in the handling of a request. 
 
I understand that the unit have now drafted a reply to send you and that you should receive 
this in less than two weeks.  Should you be dissatisfied with the content of that substantive 
response when received, we wil  be pleased to conduct a review of its contents. 
 
Should you be dissatisfied with the content of any further review that you might request, or 
with the content of this letter about the time being taken to answer your initial request, you 
have further rights of appeal to the Information Commissioner as set out in section 50 of the 
FoI Act.  The Commissioner can be contacted at: 
 
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The Information Commissioner 
Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow 
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF 
 
www.ico.gov.uk
Yours sincerely 
 
Steve Kirk   
 
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