Dear Sir or Madam,

Reference

MATTERS CONSIDERED BY THE REVIEW PANELS PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION
AND THE ENVIRONMENT, WASTE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PANEL
MEETING HELD ON 8TH JUNE 2005

which can be seen here:

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:u8iT8...

Section 6.2 where it says:

6.2 It was noted that the Unit would be using the services of a
Graduate Placement to help drive the Action Plan forward.

Questions:

1. What was the name and rank/grade of the "Graduate Placement"
appointed to this job?

2. What was their previous job?

3. Are they still in post as of today's date?

4. Was the person appointed a "Common Purpose" graduate?

5. Where it mentions to "the Unit", what is the full name and
function of "the Unit" referred to?

Yours faithfully,

John Walker

Dear Mr Walker,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request, received by us on May 21st. We are forwarding your request to an FOI Officer within Planning and Transportation.

Your request will be considered within the statutory timescale of twenty working days as defined by the Freedom of Information Act 2000. For clarification, our deadline for your request is therefore June 19th.

For your information, the Act defines a number of exemptions that may prevent release of the information you have requested. You will be informed if this is the case.

If the information you request contains reference to a third party then they may be consulted prior to a decision being taken on whether or not to release the information to you. You will be informed if this is the case.

There may be a charge payable to cover the cost of providing this information. This will be assessed and you will be informed of the charge payable if this is the case.

Should you have any queries regarding your request, please feel free to contact us at [Norfolk County Council request email] .

Yours sincerely,

Deirdre Sharp
Corporate Freedom of Information Officer

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Dear Mr Walker,

Attached is our response to your Freedom of Information Request received by us on May 21st. You will see that we have concluded that, in respect of some of the information you requested, Section 2(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is engaged.

Section 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 states that:

Where any provision of Part II states that the duty to confirm or deny does not arise in relation to any information, the effect of the provision is that where either -
(a) the provision confers absolute exemption, or
(b) in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exclusion of the duty to confirm or deny outweighs the public interest in disclosing whether the public authority holds the information,

section 1(1)(a) does not apply.

You have the right of appeal against this decision through the Council's internal complaints procedure by setting out the grounds of your appeal in writing to the corporate Freedom of Information Officer at:

Freedom of Information & Data Protection Unit
The Archive Centre
Martineau Lane
Norwich NR1 2DQ

e-mail: [Norfolk County Council request email]
Telephone: 01603 222661

If you are dissatisfied after pursuing the complaints procedure, you may apply to the Information Commissioner under Section 50 of the Act for a decision whether your request for information has been dealt with in accordance with the requirements of Part I of the Act. Contact details as follows:-

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone 01625 545 700
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely'

Deirdre Sharp
Corporate Freedom of Information Officer

The information contained in this email is intended only for the person or organization to which it is addressed. If you have received it by mistake, please disregard and notify the sender immediately. Unauthorized disclosure or use of such information may be a breach of legislation or confidentiality and may be legally privileged.

Emails sent from and received by Members and employees of Norfolk County Council may be monitored. They may also be disclosed to other people under legislation, particularly the Freedom Of Information Act 2000.

Unless this email relates to Norfolk County Council business it will be regarded by the Council as personal and will not be authorized by or sent on behalf of the Council. The sender will have sole responsibility for any legal actions or disputes that may arise.

Dear Sharp, Deirdre,

I wish to appeal this as you have not issued a proper Section 17
Refusal Notice outlining the Exemptions you applying for each
question.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2000/pla...

17 Refusal of request (1) A public authority which, in relation to
any request for information, is to any extent relying on a claim
that any provision of Part II relating to the duty to confirm or
deny is relevant to the request or on a claim that information is
exempt information must, within the time for complying with section
1(1), give the applicant a notice which— (a) states that fact, (b)
specifies the exemption in question, and (c) states (if that would
not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.

Yours sincerely,

John Walker

Dear Mr Walker,

Thank you for your e-mail in which you appealed against our response to your Freedom of Information request of May 21st on the grounds that a proper Refusal Notice under section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 200 was not issued.

I have reviewed your appeal under the provisions of our internal Freedom of Information complaints procedure. I attach a copy of the procedure document for your information.

My review concluded that the e-mail that I sent you on May 22nd, was deficient in some regards as a refusal notice and that a new and more formal notice should be issued, which specified clearly that an exemption under Part II of the Act applied, and what that exemption was.

I attach a new refusal notice, and the report of my review of your appeal.

I do, of course, apologise unreservedly for the fact that the previous response was in any respect unsatisfactory.

You have the right of appeal against this decision through the Council's internal complaints procedure by setting out the grounds of your appeal in writing to the corporate Freedom of Information Officer at:

Freedom of Information & Data Protection Unit
The Archive Centre
Martineau Lane
Norwich NR1 2DQ

e-mail: [Norfolk County Council request email]
Telephone: 01603 222661

If you are dissatisfied after pursuing the complaints procedure, you may apply to the Information Commissioner under Section 50 of the Act for a decision whether your request for information has been dealt with in accordance with the requirements of Part I of the Act. Contact details as follows:-

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone 01625 545 700
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Deirdre Sharp
Corporate Freedom of Information Officer

The information contained in this email is intended only for the person or organization to which it is addressed. If you have received it by mistake, please disregard and notify the sender immediately. Unauthorized disclosure or use of such information may be a breach of legislation or confidentiality and may be legally privileged.

Emails sent from and received by Members and employees of Norfolk County Council may be monitored. They may also be disclosed to other people under legislation, particularly the Freedom Of Information Act 2000.

Unless this email relates to Norfolk County Council business it will be regarded by the Council as personal and will not be authorized by or sent on behalf of the Council. The sender will have sole responsibility for any legal actions or disputes that may arise.

Dear Sharp, Deirdre,

I should be grateful if you would supply me with copies of ALL
correspondence (emails, letters, memos, internet private messages
and suchlike) AND transcripts of ALL telephone conversations made
by you, any other employees of Norfolk County Council and anyone
else regarding this FOI request.

Yours sincerely,

John Walker

Dear Mr Walker

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received yesterday, May 28th, and reproduced below, the deadline for responding to which is June 25th.

This e-mail constitutes both an acknowledgement and our full response to your request.

I attach a schedule of documents relating to the handling of the request mentioned (our ref. Walker.John2(02)). This schedule itemises all information held by the Council that relate to that request.

No telephone calls were made in relation to that request, consequently no transcripts exist.

Documents 01, 01a, 06, 07.Appeal1 and 07.Appeal2, and the three MS Word documents are already available to you and so have not been included in this response.

Of the other documents listed, four comprise internal communications, in the form of e-mail threads. These are documents 02, 03, 04, and 05. Documents 02, 03, and 04 (excluding an attachment) are constituents of document 05.

Since Document 05 comprises all of these internal e-mails, and the attachment to Document 04 is withheld, Documents 02, 03, and 04 have not been supplied separately as this would be mere duplication. I attach Document 05.

Exempt information:

The documents referred to as being already available to you have been exempted.

An attachment accompanying Document 04 is exempt as constituting personal data.

Document 05 has been redacted to obscure personal data.

I attach a formal refusal notice in respect of the exempt information.

Yours sincerely,

Deirdre Sharp
Corporate Freedom of Information Officer

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