FORCED ADOPTION COMPLAINTS

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Dear I Peroll,

Thank you for your recent request to the House of Lords Administration
for information under the Freedom of Information Act, which we received
on the 22 June 2009. We will reply to your request promptly and no later
than 20 July 2009.

Yours sincerely,

Hedda Shackleton

(On behalf of the Freedom of Information Officer, House of Lords)

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Dear I. Peroll,

I am writing further to your email of 22 June, in which you requested
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 ("the 2000 Act") information
relating to members of the House of Lords and complaints they had received
regarding forced adoptions. Having searched the recorded information we
hold, we have established that the House of Lords administration does not
hold information relevant to your request.

You have made your request to the House of Lords administration. The House
is cited as a public authority in Schedule 1 of the 2000 Act. However,
the provisions of the Act only apply to recorded information held by the
House of Lords administration. For the purposes of the Freedom of
Information Act, members are regarded as separate entities from the "House
of Lords". Accordingly members of the House of Lords are not themselves
public authorities under the Act. The provisions of the Act will
therefore not apply to information held only by an individual member e.g.
their private correspondence or to correspondence they may have received.

I trust that the above explains why the administration does not hold the
information you have requested.

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information, ask the House of Lords to conduct an internal review.
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not been involved in dealing with your request to conduct an internal
review within 20 working days.

If, following your review, you remain dissatisfied with the House's
treatment of your request for information then you may take your complaint
to the Information Commissioner's Office at Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely

Frances Grey

Freedom of Information Officer

House of Lords

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