Children's Play Provision 2007/08

20th April 2009

Dear Ms Cosgrove
Freedom of Information Request
I am writing to acknowledge the receipt of your information request. The request will be managed according to City of York Council's Freedom of Information Policy and the Procedure for Responding to FoI Requests. The Freedom of Information Act gives you a right of access to information. City of York Council believes in open government, and, as promised in our Information Management Charter, we will provide the information you request, unless it falls under an exemption set out in the Act. If all or some of the information you request falls under an exemption we will explain why in our response to the request.
Your request has been passed to Jo Gilliland the service manager in Culture & Lifelong Learning section, to locate the information, she will contact you directly if it is necessary to clarify your request further. We will respond to your request within 20 working days from the day after receipt of the request which was, 21st April, but if the service manager needs to seek clarification the 20 days will re-start from the date when this happens.
You will be asked to pay for any disbursement charges for preparing the information for you, such as photocopying and postage, but that is all. You will be informed of the charge as soon as it can be established. If you have an upper limit in terms of cost please inform the service manager as soon as possible.
I hope this is helpful
Yours sincerely
Pat Richardson
Support Services Supervisor

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Thank you for your request for information. To be able to respond I will need to know:

What services are you including within your definition of "leisure and culture"?

What kind of expenditure are you enquiring about? Are you referring to revenue or capital or both? If revenue, do you wish to have capital charges, support service costs, etc. included or should these be excluded?

You may find it helpful to define your requirements by reference to CIPFA categories (indeed the CIPFA service exists for the purpose of providing this kind of comparative information.

Charlie Croft
Assistant Director (Lifelong Learning and Culture)

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Dear Ms Cosgrove

We have not received a response to the request for further clarification regarding your FoI request and the deadline date is today.

If you require this information please submit again with the full details as requested for the response. The 20 day deadline would commence from the receipt of a new FoI request.

Regards
Pat Richardson
Support Services Supervisor
L.C.C.S. * City of York Council
Mill House * North Street * York * YO1 6JD
Phone: 01904 554615
Email: [email address]

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