Childcare vouchers without tax relief

Dear Sir or Madam,

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page21036 states that "companies will
still be able to offer childcare vouchers to the people they employ
and in fact, we expect many of them will continue to provide
support for childcare".

To the best of my knowledge, childcare vouchers are almost
universally provided through salary sacrifice schemes and thus it
would be pointless for employees to take up such schemes if there
would be no tax advantage.

Please could you supply any research or other documents you hold
that might back up the PM's claim, for example statistics or lists
about employers providing childcare vouchers without requiring a
salary sacrifice in exchange, or any explanation of why salary
sacrifice schemes would still be worthwhile.

Yours faithfully,

Ganesh Sittampalam

Dear Prime Minister's Office,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Prime Minister's
Office's handling of my FOI request 'Childcare vouchers without tax
relief'.

Firstly, your response took 20 working days. Given its content, I
do not consider this "prompt".

Secondly, it is technically deficient in that it does not state
whether or not you hold the information I requested.

Finally, on the assumption that you are claiming not to hold any
information covered by my request, please can you check this again.
The claim I referred to was made by the Prime Minister, not the
Chancellor. Surely he must have had some document to back up this
claim before made it?

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

Yours faithfully,

Ganesh Sittampalam

Dear Prime Minister's Office,

I note that you haven't acknowledged my internal review request
from 11th December, so this is just a reminder in case you have
lost it.

Yours faithfully,

Ganesh Sittampalam

Dear Prime Minister's Office,

I asked for an internal review of this request on the 11th of
December, and followed this up with a reminder on 22nd December.
You still haven't replied, and 20 working days have now elapsed.
Please can you provide an immediate update on the situation,
otherwise I will refer the matter to the ICO.

Yours faithfully,

Ganesh Sittampalam

Dear Prime Minister's Office,

This internal review request is now over the ICO's 40 day absolute
limit, so I will be referring the case to them. If you have
previously sent a substantive reply which has been lost, please
resend it immediately.

You can check what has been received at
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ch...

Yours faithfully,

Ganesh Sittampalam