Dear Sir/Madam

Please could you let me know how many people have applied for
flexible working within your Trust over the past two years and been
accepted / rejected. Can you split this between full-time workers
and part time workers and what Band they are on.

Yours faithfully,

Chris Paul

Dear Chris Paul,

thankyou for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. My apologies for the delay in acknowledgement, unfortunately due to sickness absence, this has been my earliest opportunity to respond.

I will contact the appropriate Department with regard to your questions, and respond as soon as I am able.

Yours sincerely,

Susan Bateman, Data Protection Officer/Freedom of Information Lead
Barking, Havering & Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust
Lyon Road Store
Lyon Road
Romford
Essex RM1 2AB
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Dear Chris Paul,

further to my acknowledgement email dated 24th September 2008, having contacted the Human Resources Department I am advised that this information is not stored electronically.

Although requests of this nature may have been received, any reference would be within an individual's personal file, figures are not collated centrally.

With the number of staff employed within the NHS Trust to undertake a manual exercise of checking each personal file to ascertain if such a request was received would exceed the £450 compliance limit. As such under Section 12 of the Act, we are not obliged to provide the information to you. We can however comply with our duty to confirm or deny whether we hold the information, by confirming we may hold data from which the requested information may be collated.

I hope this request has been dealt with to your satisfaction, but if you have a complaint as to the handling or outcome of your request, please write to:

Mr John Goulston - Chief Executive
Trust Offices
First Floor Neutral Zone
Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex RM7 0AG

Under Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, you also have the right to apply to the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF for a decision notice, should you be unsatisfied with the NHS Trust's response to your complaint letter.

Yours sincerely,

Susan Bateman, Data Protection Officer/Freedom of Information Lead
Barking, Havering & Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust
Lyon Road Store
Lyon Road
Romford
Essex RM1 2AB
[Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust request email]