FOI Request handling, Data for Jan 2009 - Jan 2010 inclusive

The City of London acknowledges receipt of your request.

City of London
[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Muldoon,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

Further to your request of 15 February 2010, and our acknowledgement of 16
February, the City of London (CoL) responds as follows.

With regard to your 1., the CoL's policy is to acknowledge receipt of all
FOI requests, and to do so within one working day following the date of
receipt. Please find attached the further responses to your 1 to 6.

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Concerning the information in the attached table regarding your 5., please
note that the CoL aims to comply with complaints - 'internal reviews' -
within 20 working days following the date of receipt, beginning with the
first working day after the date of receipt, ie as per the statutory
response time for FOI requests.

Finally, with regard to the six complaints to the ICO indicated in the
table, none of these (and none of the four other complaints received by
the CoL during this period), concerned timeliness. All six concerned
exemption of information from disclosure. There has been no occasion when
the ICO has asked the CoL to respond due to delay. The dates you request
for the six referrals to the ICO are as follows:

(1)
Request received: 25/1/2009
CoL response: 9/2/2009
Complaint received: 7/3/2009
CoL response: 2/4/2009
Notified of complaint to ICO: 7/7/2009
Outcome pending.

(2)
Request received: 4/2/2009
CoL response: 3/3/2009
Complaint received: 4/3/2009
CoL response: 1/4/2009
Notified of complaint to ICO: 17/4/2009
Outcome: not upheld
Notified of appeal to Information Tribunal: 9/11/2009
Outcome pending.

(3)
Request received: 7/4/2009
CoL response: 8/5/2009
Complaint received: 11/5/2009
CoL response: 8/6/2009
Notified of complaint to ICO: 17/6/2009
Outcome pending.

(4)
Request received: 9/6/2009
CoL response: 7/7/2009
Complaint received: 10/7/2009
CoL response: 6/8/2009
Notified of complaint to ICO: 21/6/2009
Outcome pending.

(5)
Request received: 24/7/2009
CoL response: 25/9/2009
Complaint received: None to CoL
Notified of complaint to ICO: 25/11//2009
(and the CoL agreed that no complaint need be made to the CoL)
Outcome pending.

(6)
Request received: 16/12/2009
CoL response: 18/1/2010
Complaint received: 31/1/2010
CoL response: 2/2/2010
Notified of complaint to ICO: 12/2/2010
Outcome pending.

We hope that this is of assistance.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority. If you wish to make a complaint about the way the
CoL has managed your request, please make your complaint in writing to
email address: [email address]. For a link to the CoL's FOI
complaints procedure, please visit the following page:
[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700. Website: [2]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.

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Yours sincerely,
City of London
[3]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Tel: 020-7332 1209

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