Backing of Prime Minister David Cameron for The Sun News Paper

Dear Prime Minister's Office,

The following statement (12 Aug 2010) has appeared in The Sun
newspaper of News Group Newspapers Ltd - News International;

"Do you know a benefits cheat?

Report them by TELEPHONE: 020 7782 1340 or EMAIL: [email address]

Our campaign aims to crack down on fraud and has the backing of
Prime Minister David Cameron,

Read more:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fea...

Could you please provide conformation, and where relevant copies of
correspondence, of the agreement between Mr Cameron and this news
paper for such backing.

Should they be available, please confirm;

1) the date upon which an agreement was made as to the setting up
of a Fraud Reporting Hot-line with Mr Cameron's backing;

2) who is the Data Controller within Her Majesty's Government who
is to receive such reports and personal data obtained under any
reciprocal arrangement.

Yours faithfully,

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Dear Prime Minister's Office,

Could you indiacte when you may be willing to respond, by even
providing an acknowledgement of the Originating FOI request?

Yours faithfully,

white.mark.a

Dear Prime Minister's Office,

Could you indicate when you may be willing to respond, by even
providing an acknowledgement of the Originating FOI request of 14
August 2010, some 2 weeks ago?

This communication is in follow up to the original FOI request made
14 August 2010 and a follow up request for acknowledgement sent 20
August 2010.

It has been revealed that The Treasury have been having issues
around compliance with both FOI compliance and associated
compliance with the Data protection Act 1998. They seem to be
loosing FOI requests due to poor and even none compliance with Data
Protection Obligations.

Full details can be found via this URL -
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/sp...

Are the same issues and failures now occurring within The Office Of
The Prime Minister?

Should The Office Of The Prime Minister not be able to monitor or
be experiencing difficulties in monitoring requests submitted via
this Public Web Portal, you may find the RSS ( Really Simple
Syndication ) feed for all FOI request to The Office Of The Prime
Minister most helpful.

The Publicly Accessible RSS feed for all FOI requests made to The
Office Of The Prime Minster can be consulted on this URL -
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/feed/body/...

The RSS feed even most helpfully provides details of the status of
any FOI request to the Office of the Prime Minister, such as
"Awaiting response", "Long overdue", "Successful", "Refused",
"Awaiting internal review" etc.

I await your Prompt acknowledgement of my FOI request, and your
Prompt response to that FOI request.

I am surprised by the delays as historically FOI requests have been
acknowledged within 24 hours, as recognised best business,
administration and Civil Service practice.

Yours faithfully,

white.mark.a

Dear Prime Minister's Office,

I have received your acknowledgement of an FOI request being made,
after the legal time limit for an actual response to be issued.

The FOI request was sent 14 August 2010 and a response should have
been made by 13 September.

Your Acknowledgement sent on 14 September not only indicates that
the Office of The Prime Minister does not follow the law, but also
lacks the courtesy of an apology for not even acknowledging receipt
promptly, never mind responding promptly.

Kindly clarify by return when The Prime Minster's office intends to
respond in full.

It is understood that The Prime Minister may have been on holiday
and Paternity leave, but those are not good excuses!

I await the lawful response which has as yet not been made.

Yours faithfully,

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