Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to make a request for some information from the most
recent UK census. What I would like to know is, for each first name
/ surname combination, what the incidence of that name combination
in the UK population is.

What I would envisage in terms of a reply is a table with three
columns: First name, Surname, and in the third column, the number
of people found during the census with that first name and surname
combination. An Excel spreadsheet would be an ideal format, but csv
or similar will be acceptable if that is not possible.

Please do get in touch if you have any queries about this request.

Yours faithfully,

Susan Davis

Dear Sir or Madam,

I have not yet received a response to my request - could you let me
know how you're getting on with preparing a reply?

Thanks

Susan Davis

Freedom of Information team

Please can you advise/respond to this enquirer.

Many thanks

Liz Tennant
Customer Advisor | Cynghorydd Cwsmeriaid
Customer Intelligence | Cudd-wybodaeth Cwsmeriaid
Room 1.015 | Ystafell 1.015
Office for National Statistics | Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol
Government Buildings | Adeiladau'r Llywodraeth
Cardiff Road | Heol Caerdydd
Newport | Casnewydd
NP10 8XG
Telephone 0845 6013034 | Ffôn: 0845 6013034

Communication Matters | Materion Cyfathrebu
Communication Division | Is-adran Gyfathrebu

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to make a request for some information from the most
recent UK census. What I would like to know is, for each first name
/ surname combination, what the incidence of that name combination
in the UK population is.

What I would envisage in terms of a reply is a table with three
columns: First name, Surname, and in the third column, the number
of people found during the census with that first name and surname
combination. An Excel spreadsheet would be an ideal format, but csv
or similar will be acceptable if that is not possible.

Please do get in touch if you have any queries about this request.

Yours faithfully,

Susan Davis

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Dear Liz,

Please could you let me know the progress with responding to my
request?

Thanks,

Susan Davis

Freedom of Information team, please advise Susan of the progress of her
request forwarded to you 14th July 2009 (CCC172570)

Many thanks

Gillian Day
Customer Advisor | Cynghorydd Cwsmeriaid
Customer Intelligence | Cudd-wybodaeth Cwsmeriaid
Room 1.015 | Ystafell 1.015
Office for National Statistics | Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol
Government Buildings | Adeiladau'r Llywodraeth
Cardiff Road | Heol Caerdydd
Newport | Casnewydd
NP10 8XG
Telephone 0845 6013034 | Ffôn: 0845 6013034

Communication Matters | Materion Cyfathrebu
Communication Division | Is-adran Gyfathrebu

[FOI #12758 email]
13/08/2009 17:50

To:
cc:
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Data from most
recent national census

Dear Liz,

Please could you let me know the progress with responding to my
request?

Thanks,

Susan Davis

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Hi Gillian,

I've still not heard anything from the FoI team. Could you speak to
them to find out when they will be responding, and let me know?

Thanks,

Susan

Dear Liz,

I've not yet received a reply from ONS to my request. Could you
look into this and let me know what's happening?

Thanks,

Susan

Thank you for your email.

As the Customer Contact Centre can not help with Freedom of Information
requests, I have forwarded your Freedom of Information update request to
the FOI team and also provided the e-mail address for you to contact them
directly if you wish to do so.

FOI e-mail address: [email address]

I hope this is helpful.

Rosemary Taylor
Customer Advisor| Cynghorydd Cwsmeriaid
Customer Intelligence | Cudd-wybodaeth Cwsmeriaid
Room 1.015 | Ystafell 1.015
Office for National Statistics | Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol
Government Buildings | Adeiladau'r Llywodraeth
Cardiff Road | Heol Caerdydd
Newport/Casnewydd
NP10 8XG
Telephone 0845 6013034 | Ffôn: 0845 6013034

Communication Matters | Materion Cyfathrebu
Communication Division | Is-adran Gyfathrebu

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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 for National
Statistics's handling of my FOI request 'Data from most recent
national census'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/da...

A response to this request should have been received by 12 August,
and although I have made repeated requests for an update, no
response has been forthcoming.

Please could you commit to a date by which you will be able to
supply the requested information.

Yours faithfully,

Susan Davis

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please could you confirm that you have received my request for an
internal review of your handling of my FoI request?

Yours faithfully,

Susan Davis

Dear Susan,

thank you for your email requesting information from the most recent
Census.

Firstly please let me apologise for the delay in responding to your
request.

I have passed your request onto our Census Customer Services team they have
advised me that they would be unable to provide the information you have
requested through their customer commissioned tables service as the 2001
Census White Paper and other confidentiality assurances quite clearly
stated that names and addresses would not be recorded or stored on the
output database from which the statistics were to be prepared.

Therefore we cannot now retrospectively produce or release publicly any
information relating to named individuals (either singly or collectively)
from the census before the 100 year closure.

Such analyses as is requested below have however been done from birth
registration records (which are, of course, in the public domain) and
available from teh General Registrars Office, which is now part of the
Immigration and Passport Service (IPS) within the Home Office.

For details for submitting an FOI request to the IPS please follow this
link, http://www.ips.gov.uk/cps/rde/xchg/ips_l...

Yours Sincerely,

Nicola Shearman

Rosemary Taylor
To: FOI Team@ONS
26/08/2009 12:40 cc:
Please respond to Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Data from most recent national census -
info Ref: CCC175899 e-mail date; 26/8/09 third request for this data

Dear colleague,

Please could contact this enquirer and inform them of the progress of their
query.

Many thanks.

Rosemary Taylor
Customer Advisor| Cynghorydd Cwsmeriaid
Customer Intelligence | Cudd-wybodaeth Cwsmeriaid
Room 1.015 | Ystafell 1.015
Office for National Statistics | Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol
Government Buildings | Adeiladau'r Llywodraeth
Cardiff Road | Heol Caerdydd
Newport/Casnewydd
NP10 8XG
Telephone 0845 6013034 | Ffôn: 0845 6013034

Communication Matters | Materion Cyfathrebu
Communication Division | Is-adran Gyfathrebu

[FOI #12758 email]
25/08/2009 18:52

To: Liz Tennant/PID/ASRG/NEWPORT/ONS@ONS
cc:
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Data from most
recent national census

Dear Liz,

I've not yet received a reply from ONS to my request. Could you
look into this and let me know what's happening?

Thanks,

Susan

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Dear Nicola,

Thank you for your reply. For completeness, please could you tell
me which FoI exemption you are using in order to support
withholding the information?

Yours

Susan Davis

Dear Nicola,

Could I check that you received my email asking which FoI examption
you are using in respect of my request?

Thanks,

Susan

Susan,

apologies for the delay in responding, I have been away on leave.

As this analysis has not been run we do not consider that we "hold" this
information, thus no exemption is necessary.

If though we were to have run this report and did actually have this
information we would consider that it is exempt under S44(1)(a)
(prohibitions on disclosure) as this information would be "personal data"
and thus our use of it is restricted by S39 of the Statistics and
Registration Services Act.

As I previously said the IPS should be able to produce this information for
you as they are not contrained by the same legislation as ONS,

Yours Sincerely,

Nicola Shearman

request-12758-befecb4f@whatdot
heyknow.com To: FOI Team@ONS
cc:
11/09/2009 15:33 Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Data from most recent national census

Dear Nicola,

Thank you for your reply. For completeness, please could you tell
me which FoI exemption you are using in order to support
withholding the information?

Yours

Susan Davis

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Dear Nicola,

Many thanks for your reply. Having reviewed the legislation you
refer to, I am satisfied you are applying it correctly.

Thanks for directing me to IPS - I'll make a request to them.

Yours sincerely,

Susan Davis