Dear Sir or Madam,

Can you please email me an electronic copy of the following
information

1) A copy of any email correspondence and attachments, or letters
and enclosures, you may have received from the following email
addresses individuals, within the last 3 months.

Jerry.Harland2@ homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Simon.Bentley3@ homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

This could be connected to the work of your Strategic Migration
Partnership and children seeking asylum from persecution.

: Your correspondence :

Please ensure that any of your general correspondence,
acknowledgements or holding letters etc are included or
cut-and-pasted into the body of the email messages, using plain
text, rather than as attachments. As this will mean your
correspondence is much easier to access, read and respond to.

: Accessibility :

When providing any information disclosures please provide it in the
original unrestricted format such as:

a. MS Word .doc or Rich Text Text .rtf format or equivalent
(suitable for disclosure of email messages)

b.Spreadsheets in MS Excel .xls format or equivalent

c.Presentations in MS Powerpoint .ppt format or equivalent

or converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), ONLY if none of the
above formats are available

if you only have a paper version (hard copy) available, please
provide a Digital Photo Copier Scanned version in PDF format. If
you do provide disclosures in PDF from a Digital Photo Copier Scan,
please state that you have done so because no other format, such as
a, b or c above, are available.

If you need to redact text elements of any disclosure can you
please ensure that the rest of text based information remains
accessible to a Screen Reader.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader>

Please ensure any electronic disclosures are absolutely free of any
Document Restrictions and Encryption or Passwords, as this is
likely to render them less usable on a general basis and more
specifically, inaccessible to Assistive Technology.

Please do not send any information in compilation archive formats,
such as .zip.

Providing correspondence and disclosed information via these means
will help ensure that text based information is accessible for use
with a Screen Reader or a Magnifier for none text based information
and will prevent any further and separate representations under the
Disability Discrimination Act. If you are unable to meet these
reasonably practicable accessibility requests please state why and
provide a copy of any internal information, such as a policy relied
upon that would explain such a decision.

Yours faithfully,
Cassidy, J

Dear Mr Cassidy,

Further to your FOI Inquiry, the Freedom of Information Act does not apply to regional assemblies. This is because the Act only applies to organisations which meet both of two conditions:

1)The organisation must be set up by the Crown, statute, a government department, the National Assembly for Wales, or a minister; and 2)
At least one appointment to the organisation must be made by the Crown, a government department, the National Assembly for Wales or a Minister.
Regional assemblies do not meet the second of these conditions. Therefore, they are not covered by the Act.

I would refer you to the following web page of the Department of Constitutional Affairs

http://www.foi.gov.uk/yourRights/coverag...

In order to be helpful I would suggest that you contact the Home Office to seek copies of correspondence between EERA and the officials concerned. I am sure that they will be most helpful.

Yours sincerely,

Colin Robertshaw
Head of Policy & Secretariat
East of England Regional Assembly

Tel: 01284 729412
[mobile number]
e.mail; [email address]

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