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Ganesh Sittampalam made this Freedom of Information request to Home Office
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From: Ganesh Sittampalam
16 May 2010
Dear Home Office,
Under their contracts with you for "grant-in-aid", ACPO is required
to provide you with a variety of reports - for example, quarterly
financial reports, annual reports and annual accounts.
Please could I have a copy of all such reports (i.e. any required
to be provided under the grant-in-aid contracts) from the 2006/7
financial year onwards.
If your filing system is so disorganised that it would take more
than 24 hours to find these, please provide as many as you can in
chronological order of receipt, starting with the earliest.
Yours faithfully,
Ganesh Sittampalam
From: Ganesh Sittampalam
7 June 2010
Dear Home Office,
I have as yet had no acknowledgement of this request; I remind you
that you only have a week left to reply.
Yours faithfully,
Ganesh Sittampalam
From: Ganesh Sittampalam
15 June 2010
Dear Home Office,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's
handling of my FOI request 'ACPO grant aid reports'.
You have failed to reply within 20 working days.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ac...
Yours faithfully,
Ganesh Sittampalam
From: Ganesh Sittampalam
22 June 2010
Dear Home Office,
I have still received no communication whatsoever from you despite
this request being over a week overdue. Please let me know the
status immediately or I will ask the ICO to get involved (yet
again).
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ac... has
the full details of the rather one-sided correspondence so far.
Yours faithfully,
Ganesh Sittampalam
From: Lister Ian (IMS)
Home Office
22 June 2010
Dear Mr. Sittampalam,
Please note the attached letter concerning your Freedom of Information Act
request. Please accept my apologies that your previous correspondence has
gone unanswered.
Yours sincerely,
Ian
Ian Lister
Information Access Consultant
Information Access Team
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From: Ganesh Sittampalam
23 June 2010
Dear Ian,
OK, thanks for at least being honest about the reasons.
Yours sincerely,
Ganesh Sittampalam
From: Ganesh Sittampalam
15 July 2010
Dear Ian,
As the 13th of July has now been and gone, do you have any further
news to report or should I just go to the ICO? (which, given the
Home Office's past record, I probably should have done immediately
the 20 days expired.)
I believe the internal review I requested on 15th June is now late
too, by the way.
Regards,
Ganesh
From: Lister Ian (IMS)
Home Office
16 July 2010
Mr. Sittampalam,
Thank you for you email yesterday. Once again, I apologise for the fact
that I haven't kept you up to date with our work on your request.
Although our discussions with our stakeholders are still ongoing at this
time and we hope to have our response prepared within the next couple of
weeks.
Whilst I recognise the fact that you request has been with us for two
months now, I would like to assure that I am working to provide you with
a substantive response to your request as soon as I can. I again
acknowledge that the Home Office is in breach of section 10(1) of the
Act but I would like to also assure that we're not ignoring your request
or trying to deliberately obfuscate the matter. I will provide you with
a response to your request just as soon as I can.
In regards to your request for an Internal Review in your email of the
15th June 2010, we cannot conduct an Internal Review until you have
received a substantive response to your request. We can conduct a
procedural review but this would only cover the handling of your request
so far. The delays that have been incurred so far have simply been due
to the allocation of your request, locating the information you have
requested and with consulting with our stakeholders.
The Home Office takes its obligations under the Freedom of Information
Act seriously and we aim to answer all of our requests under the Act
promptly. Unfortunately, there are some instances where we are not able
to meeting the twenty working day deadline provided under section 10 of
the Act, either because of the volume of requests we receive or because
the scope of the request requires us to conduct extensive searches or
consultations before we can provide a substantive response to that
request.
I hope to provide you with our substantive response no later than Friday
30 August 2010. If you have any further questions about your request,
please feel free to contact me.
Thank you again for your patience in this matter.
Sincere regards,
Ian
Ian Lister
Information Access Consultant
Information Access Team
Tel: 020 7035 6065
Email: [email address]
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From: Ganesh Sittampalam
16 July 2010
Dear Ian,
In my opinion, an internal review of the procedural issues would be
entirely appropriate at this point. Parliament chose to impose an
upper limit on the time for compliance, and you are taking
advantage of the lax enforcement regime to treat that limit as
optional when it quite clearly is not.
If it were the case that you were experiencing an unexpected
upswing in the volume of requests, I would have some sympathy, but
I do not believe that is the case here. If the information did
require extensive searches, then section 12 is available to you. In
the case of "extensive consultations", as I presume is the case
here, it's up to your consultees to ensure that they respond
quickly enough for you to meet the statutory timescales - and if
they do not, the law requires that you release the information or
provide a valid refusal notice anyway.
I would therefore suggest that your internal review should cover
the question of why the consultation was allowed to take so long
and why the Home Office has deliberately chosen to break the law.
Regards,
Ganesh
From: Lister Ian (IMS)
Home Office
16 July 2010
I will forward your request and ask that a procedural review is carried
out.
Ian Lister
Information Access Consultant
Information Access Team
Tel: 020 7035 6065
Email: [email address]
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From: FOI Responses
Home Office
22 July 2010
Dear Mr Sittampalam
The Home Office has received your request for an internal review (time
complaint) of your FOI case 14968. I will be conducting this review.
Please be aware the deadline for our response is the 30^th July 2010.
Many Thanks
Martin Riddle | Information Access Team
Information Management Service | Financial and Commercial Group
Ground Floor | Seacole Building | Home Office | 2 Marsham Street | London
SW1P 4DF
Switchboard Number: 0207 035 4848
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From: Information Access
Home Office
27 July 2010
Mr Sittampalam
Please see attached regarding your Time Complaint.
Information Access
Information Management Service (IMS)
Seacole Building
Marsham Street
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From: Lister Ian (IMS)
Home Office
4 August 2010
Mr. Sittampalam,
Please find attached our response to your request. The information we are
releasing will follow this email.
Regards,
Ian
Ian Lister
Information Access Consultant
Information Access Team
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From: Lister Ian (IMS)
Home Office
4 August 2010
2006 7 quarterly.pdf
33K
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2007 8 quarterly.pdf
47K
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2008 9 quarterly.pdf
95K
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2009 10 quarterly.pdf
83K
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From: Lister Ian (IMS)
Home Office
4 August 2010
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4 August 2010
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From: Ganesh Sittampalam
7 August 2010
Dear Lister Ian (IMS),
Thank you for your eventual compliance with the act.
Now that I have received the information, I am absolutely stunned
that you required so long to produce such a trivial amount of
information; it consisted of two numbers for each quarter, and the
annual reports which are available from Companies House anyway and
thus already in the public domain (and I had in fact already got
them.)
Do you have any further comment on why so much time was required?
Yours sincerely,
Ganesh Sittampalam
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