Customs and Excise Agreement with the Isle of Man

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please provide details of the methods used (from 1997 until now) to
calculate the relative shares of the common duties to be paid to
the Isle of Man Treasury in accordance with Section 2(2) of the
Isle of Man Act 1979 and the Customs and Excise Agreement.

Please also provide details of any revised arrangements which are
proposed to enter into force in the next two years.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Williams

Dear Sir,

I note I have not received a response yet to my Freedom of
Information request, which you are required by law to respond to
promptly, and in any case no later than 20 days after receipt, a
period that expired on 26 November 2009.

I am therefore requesting an internal review of your handling of
this request.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Williams

Dear Ms Adams,

The Act requires the public authority to reply promptly in any
case, and I'd therefore like an internal review into why it took a
full 20 days, even by your calculation, for a response that states
this is not an area managed by your department.

I would also like a review of your statement that HM Treasury does
not hold this information: I strongly believe this to be incorrect
as in the recent past you have supplied some of this information to
me in a different FoI request. Even if HMRC is the lead department
on this question it does not therefore follow that HMT would not
hold any documentation on the financial flows involved or the
underlying policy.

I look forward to your early response.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Williams

Dear Ms Adams,

I do not believe you have addressed the first point I asked to be
reviewed. The relevant statute states that the response should be
prompt and in no more than 20 working days - this is not the same
as after 20 working days. Given the nature of the response, I wish
there to be a review into why it took the full permitted time
period to respond.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Williams