Birmingham: Scientology gifts / hospitality

Dear Mr Thackeray

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Request for Information

Thank you for your recent enquiry for information held by the Council under
the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We acknowledge
receipt of your request dated 1st September 2010 which was received in our
office and we will be touch with you again in due course.

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case, we will
let you know. A fees notice will be issued to you and you will be required
to pay before we will proceed to deal with your request.

If you require any further information or are not happy with our response
please do not hesitate to contact a member of our team on 0121 303 4876.

Yours sincerely

Corporate Information Governance Team

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records for a period of 2 years from the date Birmingham City Council
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Dear Mr Thackeray

Please see the attached for your Freedom of Information request.

(See attached file: FOI 4497.doc)

Yours sincerely

Corporate Information Governance Team

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Dear Mr Thackeray

I am writing further to your email below.

We do not hold or record the information you have requested. We hope that
concludes your request.

Regards

Corporate Information Governance Team

William Thackeray
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25/09/2010 19:51
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Re: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Dear Birmingham City Council,

Many thanks for your response to my FOIA request.

Could you please clarify the meaning of:
"we do not hold any information relating to your request"
?

Does this mean that:

a) no such gifts etc have been recieved?

or

b) the council has no information on whether such gifts etc have
been recieved?

Many thanks.

Yours faithfully,

William Thackeray

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Dear Mr Thackeray

In regards to your email and query below, we have looked at the gift
register and it does not have entries for any of the organisations listed.

Yours sincerely

Corporate Information Governance

William Thackeray
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27/09/2010 14:12
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Re: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Dear Birmingham City Council,

Sorry, I'm still not clear.

Does "We do not hold or record the information you have requested."
mean that you don't have a gift register?

Or that you've looked at the gift register and it doesn't have
entries for any of the organisations listed?

Sorry if I'm being obtuse.

Yours faithfully,

William Thackeray

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