answers to all FOI requests about Mr Ratzinger's visit

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

Please provide a disclosure log of all freedom of information
requests and replies about Mr Ratzinger's visit.

The reason I think this is important is economy: to save
duplication of requests & duplicate replies.

The act only gives me rights about information that already exists,
and if you reply by email it will be published on
whatdotheyknow.com . You may prefer to keep a running record of
requests and replies like the ministry of defence:
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Freedo...

regards,
John Robertson

Hullo,
Just to clarify this request, I am interested in the full list of
requests similar to that shown in your reply
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/41...
rather than the edited list of requests and replies published on
the FCO freedom of information site.

Yours faithfully,

John Robertson

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
A public authority must comply with section 1(1) promptly and in
any event not later than the twentieth working day following the
date of receipt - by 14 September 2010
Yours faithfully,

John Robertson

Dear Papal Visit Team,
Thanks for your help so far.
I am sorry to understand that you have no help from the £5m a year
"embassy" to the Vatican.
Yours faithfully,

John Robertson

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Foreign and
Commonwealth Office's handling of my FOI request 'answers to all
FOI requests about Mr Ratzinger's visit', because the answer given
needs more evidence before the average person, I think, would find
it plausible. I don't believe it myself.

• Some of the FOI requests quoted stem from a Sunday Telegraph leak
of a mocking but private document and use have the same odd logic
as the Vatican's response - as though written by one person. The
logic is that the holder of an irrational belief in not using
condoms reads a leaked private email mocking the position &
complains that it offends his irrational belief, rather than
address the more imporant point of why HIV & unwanted children
should be spread about the world. I would like to see evidence that
these FOI requests were submitted by anyone outside the FCO; that
the bulk fo them were not just made-up by FCO officials or one or
two others. (The same Sunday Telegraph piece quotes the Vatican as
suggesting this very response and the FCO for some reason agreeing
& apologising, rather than cancelling an expensive visit and
promoting condom use to reduce HIV and over-population)

• 0585-10 Please supply the following information under Freedom of
Information Act 2000: What is the projected cost of the Pope's
4-day state visit to the UK in Information provided in full. 15
July 2010
September 2010? Please state all costs, including security, travel,
accommodation, etc.’

It is stated that this businesslike request was recieved and
answered but no answer is shown on the FCO discolosure log.

• Few other requests or replies are logged at a time of intense
media coverage with some criticism of visiting pontiff's place in
the heirachy of spending cuts. No questions are recorded from the
BBC, The National Secular Society, the British Humanist
Association, or the newspapers who ran stories about Mr Ratzinger's
subsidised visit. I think all the newspapers ran stories but it's
claimed that none filed a freedom of information request (except
perhaps the one with no disclosed answer) so I find this hard to
believe.

• As background, the FCO official responsible for answering
requests decided to delay response beyond the deadline because she
was busy with her pontiff. This is different to the way most of us
have to behave in meeting deadlines for tax returns or job
applications or the like; it suggests something odd about an FCO
papal desk backed by a four million pound subsidy per year to an
embassy to the Vatican.

So in summery I would like to see supporting evidence to the
previous answer to a freedom of informationa act request.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/an...

Yours faithfully,

John Robertson