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A Freedom of Information request to Home Office by Harry Metcalfe
The request was partially successful.
Harry Metcalfe
9 July 2008
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please could you send me:
- A copy of the contract between the Home Office and Virtual
Surveys Ltd for the operation of the MyLifeMyID.org consultation
site;
- The total cost of the project.
Yours faithfully,
Harry Metcalfe
HQ Enquiries
Home Office
21 July 2008
Dear Mr Metcalfe,
Thank you for your email of 21 July. Please find a response attached.
Yours faithfully,
Identity and Passport Service
<<9864 H Metcalfe Acknow.doc>>
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Harry Metcalfe
18 August 2008
Dear HQ Enquiries,
I am writing to ask if any progress has been made with my FoI
request, reference FOICR 9864/08.
I was assured a substantive response by the 11th August: a reply is
considerably overdue.
Yours sincerely,
Harry Metcalfe
Harry Metcalfe
2 September 2008
Hello,
I am writing to ask if any progress has been made with my FoI
request, reference FOICR 9864/08.
A response to this request is extremely overdue.
Please let me know the status of this request as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely,
Harry Metcalfe
HQ Enquiries
Home Office
5 September 2008
Dear Mr Metcalfe,
Thank you for your email of 11 July. Please find a response attached.
Yours faithfully,
On behalf of James Hall, Chief Executive
Identity and Passport Service
<<9864 H Metcalfe Final response.doc>>
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Harry Metcalfe left an annotation (5 September 2008)
The information, it turns out, was publicly available:
http://www.ips.gov.uk/identity/downloads...
But this document was not published until the 20th August, over a month after my original request.
Eventually, I called the Home Office to follow up on this request. The letters they send have the switchboard number for their general enquiries people, who didn't seem ever to have heard of FoI, let alone knowing who to put me through to. You can call this number if you're in a similar predicament, and save yourself the hassle:
0203 356 8035
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