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From: John Walker
30 October 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
This FOI request relates to the FOI request that can be viewed
here:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ho...
1.
http://www.ico.gov.uk/what_we_cover/data...
states:
"22 January 2009
The ICO has required the Home Office to sign a formal undertaking
after a contractor employed by the Home Office, PA Consulting, lost
an unencrypted memory stick holding sensitive personal details of
thousands of individuals in August 2008. The Undertaking has been
signed on behalf of the Home Office by Sir David Normington, the
Permanent Secretary."
1a. What was the nature of this "formal undertaking" [please supply
a copy]
1b. What steps did you take to ensure this undertaking was complied
with?
2. The Home Office habitually breaks the law relating to the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the FOIA).
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has received hundreds
of complaints about the Home Office's refusal to comply with FOIA.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ho...
states:
"We have issued 28 Decision Notices in relation to complaints about
the Home Office"
(with over 50 complaints in total upheld)
2a. What action have you taken to ensure that you comply with the
FOIA?
2b. What has been the cost to the taxpayer of your arrogant and
repeated refusal to comply with this law?
2c. Are these breaches of the FOIA the result of a deliberate
policy of law breaking by the Home Office or the result of
incompetence and negligence?
2d. If these breaches are the result of a deliberate policy of law
breaking, what actions are you taking to ensure that the law is
complied with in the future?
2e. If these breaches are the result of incompetence and
negligence, what disciplinary action is taken against those civil
servants responsible?
Yours faithfully,
John Walker
From: Brook Adrian
Home Office
16 November 2009
Dear Mr Walker
I attach a reply to your FoI request of 30 October.
Regards
Adrian Brook
Information Access Team
Information Management Service
Ground Floor, Seacole Building (NW)
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
Tel. 020 7035 1022
External e-mail [1][email address]
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From: John Walker
16 November 2009
Dear Brook Adrian,
You say:
"2b. What has been the cost to the taxpayer of your arrogant and
repeated refusal
to comply with this law?
The Home Office does not refuse to comply with the law and does not
hold this
information. "
In that case, explain your repeated refusal to comply with the law
and answer this FOI request dating from 12 February 2009:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mr...
In that case, explain your
Yours sincerely,
John Walker
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Trevor Allport left an annotation (28 November 2010)
If more people were like you, concerned about real matters rather than who's won 'X-Factor', our country and indeed, the whole world, would be a much better place.
Carry on asking. Question everything because although the corruption in government is compartmentalised, it is a significant threat to all of our futures.
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