Emails between Christopher Graham and BBC

Fred Ormerod made this Freedom of Information request to British Broadcasting Corporation

British Broadcasting Corporation did not have the information requested.

From: Fred Ormerod

9 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please disclose copies of all emails sent from '@bbc.co.uk' email
addresses to Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner, and all
emails received by '@bbc.co.uk' email addresses from Christopher
Graham, Information Commissioner.

I believe this should be a relatively straightforward task for your
IT department, and should certainly not take 18 hours/£450.

Yours faithfully,

Fred Ormerod

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From: FOI Enquiries
British Broadcasting Corporation

12 October 2009

Dear Mr Ormerod,

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, as detailed in your email below. Your request was received on 9th October, 2009. We will deal with your request as promptly as possible, and at the latest within 20 working days. If you have any queries about your request, please contact us at the address below.

The reference number for your request is RFI20091401.

Kind regards

The Information Policy & Compliance Team

BBC Freedom of Information
Room 2252, BBC White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS

www.bbc.co.uk/foi
Email: [BBC request email]

Tel: 020 8008 2882
Fax: 020 8008 2398

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From: FOI Enquiries
British Broadcasting Corporation

22 October 2009

Attachment RFI20091401 Final response.pdf
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Dear Mr Ormerod

Please find attached the response to your request considered under the
terms of the Freedom of Information Act.
<<RFI20091401 - Final response.pdf>>
Kind regards,

Rachael Ward
Adviser, Information Policy and Compliance

BBC Freedom of Information
Room 2252
BBC White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS, UK

Website: [1]www.bbc.co.uk/foi/
Email: [2]mailto:[BBC request email]
Tel: 020 8008 2883
Fax: 020 8008 2398

[3]http://www.bbc.co.uk
This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal
views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated.
If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system.
Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in
reliance on it and notify the sender immediately.
Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received.
Further communication will signify your consent to this.

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From: Fred Ormerod

26 October 2009

Dear FOI Enquiries,

Unless the BBC are using a bizarre email client, I cannot see how
it would take in excess of 18 hours for an IT person to search for
incoming messages from Christopher Graham's email address.

From personal experience, the IT department at my own public
authority were able to search for all emails received by their
servers from a particular email address within 1 working day.
Having spoken to the IT person concerned, he said it was a simple
case of entering the email address and clicking 'search'.

However, for the time being I take up your offer of reducing the
scope of my request to cover those potential recipients stated in
your response.

Yours sincerely,

Fred Ormerod

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Philip Chillag left an annotation (26 October 2009)

It could be that each email would have to be manually reviewed to ensure it doesn't expose personal or other sensitive information that would be exempted under the Freedom of Information Act. This would take a lengthy period of time.

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Ganesh Sittampalam left an annotation (27 October 2009)

However they can't count time spent doing that when considering the time limit.

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From: FOI Enquiries
British Broadcasting Corporation

27 October 2009

Dear Mr. Ormerod

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, as detailed in your email below. Your request was
received on 26th October 2009. We will deal with your request as
promptly as possible, and at the latest within 20 working days. If you
have any queries about your request, please contact us at the address
below.

The reference number for your request is RFI20091487.

Kind regards

The Information Policy & Compliance Team

BBC Freedom of Information
Room 2252, BBC White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS

www.bbc.co.uk/foi
Email: [BBC request email]

Tel: 020 8008 2882
Fax: 020 8008 2398

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Fred Ormerod left an annotation (20 November 2009)

Somebody marked this as 'rejected'. I have updated the status as the thread contains an amended request, a response to which I am still awaiting.

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Ganesh Sittampalam left an annotation (21 November 2009)

It helps the WDTK tracking work properly if you start a fresh request in situations like this - that way the deadline is calculated properly.

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Fred Ormerod left an annotation (23 November 2009)

Hi Ganesh, I appreciate that that's the case - but given that the BBC's offer to reduce the scope was in the response, I felt it simpler to continue this chain.

Thanks,

F

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From: FOI Enquiries
British Broadcasting Corporation

24 November 2009

Attachment RFI20091487 final response.pdf
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Attachment RFI20091487 disclosure document 1.pdf
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Attachment RFI20091487 disclosure document 2.pdf
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Please find attached the response to your request considered under the
terms of the Freedom of Information Act.

Kind regards,

Fern Kersey
Adviser, Information Policy and Compliance

BBC Freedom of Information
Room 2252
BBC White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS, UK

Website: www.bbc.co.uk/foi/
Email: [1]mailto:[BBC request email]
Tel: 020 8008 2883
Fax: 020 8008 2398

[2]http://www.bbc.co.uk
This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal
views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated.
If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system.
Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in
reliance on it and notify the sender immediately.
Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received.
Further communication will signify your consent to this.

References

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2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/

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