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Information not held by Office of Communications to P. John on 2 September 2009.
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Correspondence between Kip Meek policy officer of Ofcom(2005) and BT in 2005
Phillip Main made this Freedom of Information request to Office of Communications
The request was refused by Office of Communications.
Phillip Main
5 August 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please supply copies of any correspondence between Kip Meek (Policy
Officer of Ofcom in 2005) and BT for the period 1st jan 2005 to
31st December 2005
Yours faithfully,
Phillip Main
Information Requests
Office of Communications
7 August 2009
Reference: 1-124435532
7^th August 2009
Via email: [1][FOI #16451 email]
Dear Mr Main
Freedom of Information: Right to know request
Thank you for your request for information regarding copies of any
correspondence between Kip Meek (Policy Officer of Ofcom in 2005) and BT
for the period 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2005. Your request was
received on 06/08/09 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (`the Act').
Generally any information provided will consist of copies of original
documents in paper or electronic format.
Where we hold the information you have requested we will endeavour to
answer your request in full and within 20 working days. If we are unable
to provide the information requested, we will explain why under the Act
the information has not been provided.
If you have any queries then please contact
[2][Ofcom request email]. Please remember to quote the
reference number above in any future communications.
Yours sincerely
Alex Bevan
Information Requests
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Information Requests
Office of Communications
2 September 2009
Dear Mr Main
Please find correspondence attached.
Yours sincerely
Eleanor Berg
:: Eleanor Berg
Information Requests
Email: information.requests[1]@ofcom.org.uk
:: Ofcom
Riverside House
2a Southwark Bridge Road
London SE1 9HA
020 7981 3000
[2]www.ofcom.org.uk
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Phillip Main
21 September 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Office of
Communication's handling of my FOI request 'Correspondence between
Kip Meek policy officer of Ofcom(2005) and BT in 2005'. your
response is now long overdue. I am at a loss to understand why
questions about the Policy Officer of Ofcom causes such
consternation.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...
Yours faithfully,
Phillip Main
Information Requests
Office of Communications
22 September 2009
Dear Mr Main
Thank you for your email of 21 September 2009 to Information Requests requesting an internal review. As explained in our email of 2 September the time limit for responding to your request needed to be extended. This extension is because the information is being considered under an exemption which prevents Ofcom from releasing the information to which a public interest test applies. In accordance with ICO guidelines* your case should not exceed 40 working days in total, that is by Wednesday 30 September.
As Ofcom has yet to communicate its final decision to either provide you with the information you have requested or issue you with a refusal notice under section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act, we will not be commencing an internal review until this point. Should you, once you have received our decision, still wish for us to conduct an internal review, we will be more than happy to undertake this at that point.
We expect to have our response to you by the end of this week.
Yours sincerely
Eleanor Berg
* http://www.ico.gov.uk/what_we_cover/free... - Section 17: Time limits on considering the public interest
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Information Requests
Office of Communications
23 September 2009
Dear Mr Main
Please find response attached.
Yours sincerely
Eleanor Berg
:: Eleanor Berg
Information Requests
Email: [Ofcom request email]
:: Ofcom
Riverside House
2a Southwark Bridge Road
London SE1 9HA
020 7981 3000
www.ofcom.org.uk
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Phillip Main
24 September 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.
I am writing to repeat my request an internal review of Office of
Communications's handling of my FOI request 'Correspondence between
Kip Meek policy officer of Ofcom(2005) and BT in 2005'.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...
Yours faithfully,
Phillip Main
Information Requests
Office of Communications
14 December 2009
Dear Mr Main
Please see the attached response to your internal review.
Yours sincerely
Jonathan Ayres
:: Jonathan Ayres
Information Compliance Adviser
Information Requests
:: Ofcom
Riverside House
2a Southwark Bridge Road
London SE1 9HA
020 7981 3000
[1]www.ofcom.org.uk
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Phillip Main left an annotation (16 December 2009)
Yet again anything this former OFCOM Policy Officer and Phorm director (no clash of interests there then) does is shrouded in mystery. Does the reply mean that every phone call and every letter or email Mr.Meek wrote while at OFCOM was a personal one ? Did he do any work for ofcom at all ?
From the answers we have been given here and in other requests it appears not as everything he does is covered by an extemption.
' hear no Meek, speak no Meek, see no Meek'
I leave you to draw your own conclusions
P. John left an annotation (17 December 2009)
So Kip Meek, Ofcom Chief Policy Advisor, can conspire with BT/121Media to execute a covert trail of illegal mass surveillance technology.
He can then leave Ofcom and join the company that conducted out that illegal trial... and yet neither Kip Meek nor Ofcom can be required to give any account for his conduct.
I'm sorry, I don't accept that. It looks remarkably similar to shameless corruption.
The new head of the ICO recently said "Everyone in receipt of public funds has got to wake up and smell the coffee and realise that we have had five years of freedom of information now and that's the deal - you get the money and you're accountable".
Perhaps its time someone made Ed Richard a coffee, and told him who pays his salary.
We're overdue an account from him and Ofcom.
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Phillip Main left an annotation (24 September 2009)
Brilliantly apt comment I wish I could take credit for.
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