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C Montanaro made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs did not have the information requested.
From: C Montanaro
23 July 2010
Dear Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
I'd like to request a list of the donations made to the Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) for the financial year
ending 31st March 2009.
An abridged version of the Trustees report is available on their
website, but I would like a complete list detailing the
name/company name of the donor and the amount donated.
Yours faithfully,
C Montanaro
From: Helpline, Defra (CCU)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
23 July 2010
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as soon as possible and no later than 20 working days after the date of
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limited circumstances.
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From: Paul, Shona (LCS-PCF)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
20 August 2010
Dear C Montanaro,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
Please find attached the letter about your FOIA request.
<<FOIA Letter - C Montanaro (RFI3468).pdf>>
Please quote the above reference details regarding any queries.
Many thanks and kind regards
Shona
Shona Paul
Procurement and Contracts Division
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
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If you have received it in error you have no authority to use, disclose,
store or copy any of its contents and you should destroy it and inform the
sender.
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for known viruses whilst within Defra systems we can accept no
responsibility once it has left our systems.
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recorded to secure the effective operation of the system and for other
lawful purposes.
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C Montanaro left an annotation (20 August 2010)
This is, frankly, a ludicrous response and I'm astonished they took almost the full 20 days to respond.
I can confirm that Defra donates a significant sum to the RSPB. It would have taken them 30 seconds to see that on the RSPB website. What I wanted was a complete list of all donations.
Furthermore, as a charity their finances should be publicly available, not just the abridged version available on the RPSB site. All other FOI requests about the RSPB went to Defra, so why not this one?
This response smacks of contempt for the freedom of information and I will be issuing a further complaint.
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