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Paul Perrin made this Freedom of Information request to Information Commissioner’s Office

The request was successful.

From: Paul Perrin

30 November 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I understand that there are a number of accusations of the
University of East Anglia - specifically the Climatic Research Unit
- have sought to evade their responsibilities under the freedom of
information act.

Can you tell me of any complaints that you have received, any
investigations (complete or in progress) that you have/are
undertaking?

If there were to be no investigation in progress regarding the
current claims (regarding the withholding of raw data regarding
historic climatic temperatures, and the destruction of emails and
the destruction of historic data), can you tell me what is required
for you to start such an investigation? Do you need a specific
complain from an individual? if so does the individual have to have
been the person who was denied information?

Yours faithfully,

Paul Perrin

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Information Commissioner’s Office

1 December 2009

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1st December 2009

Case Reference Number IRQ0280728

Dear Mr Perrin

Thank you for your email dated 30 November 2009 in which you have made a
request for information to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Your request is being dealt with in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Whilst the 20 working day deadline for response to
your request is 30 December 2009 as the ICO is closed during the period
between Christmas and New Year we will respond by 24 December 2009.

If you wish to add further information or clarification to your request
please reply to this email, being careful not to amend the information in
the ‘subject’ field. This will ensure that the information is added
directly to your case. However, please be aware that this is an automated
process; the information will not be read by a member of our staff until
your case is allocated to a request handler.

Yours sincerely

Joanne Crowley

Assistant Internal Compliance Manager

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Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Tel: 01625 545 700 Fax: 01625 524 510 Web: www.ico.gov.uk

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Case Reference Number IRQ0280728

Dear Mr Perrin

I write with reference to your request for information dated 30 November
2009 concerning the University of East Anglia and further to our
acknowledgement letter. As you are aware your request has been dealt
with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request asked for the number of complaints received by this office
concerning the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. To
date we have received two allegations of a breach of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and one allegation of a breach of the Data Protection
Act 1998. Our investigations into these complaints are ongoing.

Complaints made to this office as the regulator of the Freedom of
information Act 2000 are made under Section 50(1) of the Act. This
states that:

“Any person (in this section referred to as “the complainant”) may
apply to the Commissioner for a decision whether, in any specified
respect, a request for information made by the complainant to a public
authority has been dealt with in accordance with the requirement of Part
1”

Therefore, in order to investigate a specific complaint concerning a
particular request for information, this would need to be brought by the
individual who made the request. There, if further information about
the complaint process on our website.

[2]http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/freedom...

We also monitor compliance with the Act proactively and have published our
enforcement strategy.

[3]http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/l...

In this case our investigation stemmed from both individual complaints and
media interest.

I hope this information is of help and assistance. However, if you are
dissatisfied with the response you have received and wish to request a
review of our decision or make a complaint about how your request has been
handled you should write to the Internal Compliance Team at the address
below or e-mail [4][email address]

Your request for internal review should be submitted to us within 40
working days of receipt by you of this response. Any such request
received after this time will only be considered at the discretion of the
Commissioner.

If having exhausted the review process you are not content that your
request or review has been dealt with correctly, you have a further right
of appeal to this office in our capacity as the statutory complaint
handler under the legislation. To make such an application, please write
to the Case Reception Team, at the address below or visit the
‘Complaints’ section of our website to make a Freedom of Information
Act or Environmental Information Regulations complaint online.

A copy of our review procedure is attached.

Yours sincerely

Charlotte Powell

Internal Compliance Manager

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Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Tel: 01625 545 700 Fax: 01625 524 510 Web: www.ico.gov.uk

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