Cost of recent Sefton Park School Expansion consultation

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Dear Steven Phillips.

In reply to your Freedom of Information request:

The City Council have paid a total of £5362.20 to Consultants IRIS for
their involvement in the recent consultation on the expansion of Sefton
Park Schools.

I have been advised that I may send information but not documents under
a Freedom of Information request and therefore have not supplied copies
of the relevant invoices from IRIS.

This response should answer your request in full, however if you are
not satisfied with this response or wish to lodge an appeal against any
exemptions that may have been applied, you can do so by writing to the
Data Protection Officer at Bristol City Council Legal Services, The
Council House, College Green, Bristol, BS99 7PH, or [Bristol City Council request email].
Details of the complaints procedure can be found at
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/complaints.

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Regards Bob R

PFI/BSF Client Manager
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please note new e-mail address:
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Dear Steven Phillips.

In reply to your Freedom of Information request:

The City Council have paid a total of £5362.20 to Consultants IRIS for
their involvement in the recent consultation on the expansion of Sefton
Park Schools.

I have been advised that I may send information but not documents under
a Freedom of Information request and therefore have not supplied copies
of the relevant invoices from IRIS.

This response should answer your request in full, however if you are
not satisfied with this response or wish to lodge an appeal against any
exemptions that may have been applied, you can do so by writing to the
Data Protection Officer at Bristol City Council Legal Services, The
Council House, College Green, Bristol, BS99 7PH, or [Bristol City Council request email].
Details of the complaints procedure can be found at
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/complaints.

If, after you have exhausted the council’s complaints procedure, you
are still not satisfied with the response you have received you have the
right to complain to the Information Commissioner, details of your right
to complain can be found at http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints.aspx

Copyright notice
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does not imply a right to reproduce or commercially exploit such
information without the Council's express prior written permission.

Reproduction or commercial exploitation of materials supplied under
this scheme without the express permission of Bristol City Council may
be an infringement of copyright.

The Council is unable to grant permission to reproduce or re-use any
material accessed through this scheme that is the property of third
parties. Permission to reproduce or re-use such material must be
obtained from the copyright holders.

Regards Bob R

PFI/BSF Client Manager
0117 9037596 - w
07710 396508 - m

please note new e-mail address:
[email address]

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Dear Mr Phillips,
I can confirm that after receiving your request for the review, I have
been in contact with the council department who hold the information
requested and can now enclose below a copy of the response provided.

After reviewing this matter, I must apologise for the extended delay
that you have experienced in receiving the response. Unfortunately it
appears that the delay has arisen due to staff absence in exceptional
circumstances. However staff have been reminded that we must meet the
statutory time limit in responding to such requests.

If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to
contact me.

Outstanding response to Freedom of Information request:

In reply to your further Freedom of Information request, a copy of
which is enclosed below:

The details of the £5362.20 that the City Council have paid a to
Consultants IRIS, comes in the form of two invoices broken down as:

* invoice dated 24 July, 2008 = £1,650.00

* invoice dated 29 October, 2008 = £3,712.20

The work involved was:

AIM of the CONSULTATION:
To provide all stakeholders with an opportunity to be involved and
informed on the plans, as they are developed, to extend Sefton Park
Infant and Junior Schools into an official three form entry school.

TIMETABLE
Start in May 08 with meetings with key stakeholders, provide and
distribute questionnaire to wide range of consultees.
June / July 08 holding first focus groups.
Sept 08 - continuation of focus groups.
Oct 08 - produce outcome information.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, a requester is
entitled to be informed in writing by the public authority whether it
holds "information" described in the request and if that is the case, to
have that information communicated to them. In some cases, the Council
will disclose copies of documents in response to a request, however the
act does not specify that copies of documents should be provided, rather
that we provide the information requested, unless of course an exemption
applies.

This response should answer your request in full, however if you are
not satisfied with this response or wish to lodge an appeal against any
exemptions that may have been applied, you can do so by writing to the
Data Protection Officer at Bristol City Council Legal Services, The
Council House, College Green, Bristol, or [Bristol City Council request email]. Details
of the complaints procedure can be found at
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/complaints.

If, after you have exhausted the council’s complaints procedure, you
are still not satisfied with the response you have received you have the
right to complain to the Information Commissioner, details of your right
to complain can be found at http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints.aspx

Copyright notice
The provision of information by Bristol City Council under this scheme
does not imply a right to reproduce or commercially exploit such
information without the Council's express prior written permission.
Reproduction or commercial exploitation of materials supplied under
this scheme without the express permission of Bristol City Council may
be an infringement of copyright.
The Council is unable to grant permission to reproduce or re-use any
material accessed through this scheme that is the property of third
parties. Permission to reproduce or re-use such material must be
obtained from the copyright holders.

Yours sincerely
A Marshall

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2009 21:08:17 >>>
Dear Sir or Madam,

Attached below is my email dated 21st Jan 2009. You did not
respond
to this or my email dated 1st December 2008.

I would like to request an Internal Review of the handling of
this
FOI request.

Best Regards

Steven Phillips

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21 January 2009

Dear Bristol City Council FOI

I emailed you on 1st December ( attached below), with a question
about your response (27/11/08 )to this FOI request.

I have not received any reply. Please respond.

Yours sincerely,

S Phillips

------------------Email from December 1st--------------

Dear Mr Rutherford,

Thank you for supplying the total cost of the consultation.

Could you send me a cost breakdown by date and services rendered,
for the IRIS consultation?

You say that you have been advised that you "may send information
but not documents".

Could you tell me which part of the FOI law or its exemptions
limits you in this way ?

Yours faithfully,

Steven Phillips

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