Dear Mr Cassidy

Request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Thank you for your email received on 19 March 2009 requesting that the following information be provided to you:

“Can you please email me an electronic copy of the following information:

1) Minutes of any meeting of the COSLA Strategic Migration Partnership, since the inception of this Partnership.

2) Copies of any information produced or distributed by the COSLA Strategic Migration Partnership in connection with the Home Office UKBA UASC Reform Programme which I understand you hold, due to you being a member of the Partnership. The request is being made of yourself as no other Public Authority has made this information accessible to the Public.

Please ensure that any general correspondence, acknowledgment or holding letters etc are included in the body of the email messages,

rather than as attachments. As this will ensure the correspondence is much easier to access, read and respond to.

When providing any information disclosures please provide it in the q original format such as:

a. MS Word .doc or Rich Text.rtf format or equivalent

b. Plain text .txt format

c. Spreadsheets in MS Excel .xls format or equivalent

d. Presentations in MS Powerpoint .ppt format or equivalent

or converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), ONLY if none of the above formats are available

if you only have a paper version (hard copy) available, please provide a Digital Photo Copier Scanned version in PDF format.

Providing correspondence and disclosed information via these means will also help ensure that text based information is accessible for

use with a Screen Reader or a Magnifier for none text based information.”

You further clarified your request on 23 March 2009 in a separate email as follows:

“2.1) Minutes of the COSLA UASC Reform Working Group, since the group's inception

2.2) Copies of any information produced or distributed by of through the COSLA UASC Reform Working Group, as may or may not have been be noted in the above Minutes (2.1)”

The Council is treating your request as a request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

We are currently in the process of collating the information you have requested and aim to send this out to you as soon as possible.

The officer concerned has also advised that they would be happy to meet with you at a mutually convenient time if it would be helpful to gain the information you require.

Section 15 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act advises that a Scottish Public Body, must, so far as it is reasonable to expect it to do so, provide advice and assistance to a person who proposes to make, or has made, a request for information to it.

For this purpose, I am enclosing web links for the COSLA Strategic Migration Partnership website. The website holds Minutes and Reports regarding this request. Please refer to the following weblink:

http://www.asylumscotland.org.uk/minutesandreports.php

For further information, full contact details for COSLA Strategic Migration Partnership employees can be obtained via this weblink:

http://www.asylumscotland.org.uk/contactcsmp.php

If you are dissatisfied with the way Glasgow City Council has dealt with your request you are entitled to require the Council to review its decision. Please note that for a review to take place you must:

The Solicitor to the Council

Glasgow City Council

City Chambers

George Square

Glasgow G2 1DU

Email: [email address]

You will receive notice of the results of the review within 20 working days of receipt of your request. The notice will state the decision reached by the reviewing officer as well as details of how to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner if you are still dissatisfied with the Council's response. You must request an internal review by the Council before a complaint can be directed to the Scottish Information Commissioner.

If you have any further queries regarding this process, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Jennifer Small

Freedom of Information Officer

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