Dear Sir or Madam,

Since the inception of the Freedom of Information Act to date

1)how many requests for information under the act has the council
received?

2)how many have times has the council failed to respond within the
statutory 20 day period?

Yours faithfully,

T Thomas

Brent Council - INFORMATION REQUEST

Our Reference: 431059
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Dear T Thomas

Further to your request for information received on 29 September 2008 I am
writing to inform you that strictly speaking the information you requested
cannot be supplied as it is not held by Brent Council. This is because the
Council's policy is not to record all requests for information which would
formally constitute valid requests for information under the Freedom of
Information Act. As you will imagine the Council receives many requests for
information each day but most of those relate to day to day administration.
The Council only records requests as FOI requests if they do not fall within
its definition of business as usual.
The answers we can provide to the questions you asked therefore only relate
to the requests which we record as FOI requests.

You asked:
Since the inception of the Freedom of Information Act to date
1)how many requests for information under the act has the council
received?
2005 = 343
2006 = 314
2007 = 379
2008 = 457 (1st Jan to 30 Sept 2008)
Total = 1493
2)how many times has the council failed to respond within the
statutory 20 day period?
2005 = 65
2006 = 66
2007 = 80
Audited figures are not available for 2008.

If you are dissatisfied with the response or how the Council has handled
your request you can complain to the Council by writing to the following
address: IT Standards Manager at Brent Council, Room 105, Brent Town Hall,
Forty Lane, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 9HD, telephone 020 8937 1402, e-mail
[Brent Borough Council request email]. It is the Council's policy to ensure that, where
practicable, your complaint is dealt with by someone who was not involved in
the original decision.

You also have a right of appeal about our decision to the Information
Commissioner, however, the Information Commissioner will not normally
consider an appeal until you have exhausted your rights of redress and
complaint to the Council. The Information Commissioner can be contacted as
follows:
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF; Telephone: 01625 545 700,
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Stephen Williams
for Brent ITU
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