Alderman Ian Luder: Scientology meetings / correspondence

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Dear Mr Thackeray

Following your request for information of 14 December 2009, and our
acknowledgement of 15 December, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows.

Elected Members are outside the scope of the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA) with regard to information held as part of their
constituency work.

Alderman Luder has confirmed that any contact he may have had with
representatives of Scientology organisations in the last five years
would have been in his role as an elected representative for his Ward.
Elected representatives are outside the scope of the FOIA with regard to
their constituency work.

In addition, the CoL confirms that it does not hold information
requested in so far as the CoL falls within the scope of the FOIA, ie in
respect of its local authority, police authority and port health
authority functions, except with regard to the communication which has
already been disclosed to you (subject to the application of exemptions)
in our response to your request of 24 July 2009.

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Following your request for information of 14 December 2009, our response
of 5 January 2010, and your request for clarification of the same date,
the City of London (CoL) responds as follows.

Please consult the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), where it can be
seen that individual councillors are not authorities for the purposes of
the FOIA. For confirmation of this, please see the Information
Commissioner's Guidance entitled:

"Freedom of Information Act / Environmental Information Regulations -
Information produced or received by councillors", at
[1]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.

We hope that this is of assistance.

City of London
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