Freedom of Information requests

T Thomas made this Freedom of Information request to Shepway District Council

The request was partially successful.

From: T Thomas

28 September 2008

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

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From: T Thomas

24 December 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Shepway District
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Freedom of Information
requests'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/fr...

Yours sincerely,

T Thomas

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Shepway District Council

13 January 2009

Dear Sir or Madam

Please accept my apologies for the delayed response to your request. The
Council has recently been through a period where no FOI Officer has been
in post.

I am currently looking at your request and will respond by 23 January.

Regards

Claire Thomas
FOI/Senior Administrative Officer
Legal & Democratic Services
Shepway District Council
01303 853444
www.shepway.gov.uk

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From: T Thomas

27 January 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Still waiting for the promised response.

Yours sincerely,

T Thomas

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From: Claire Thomas
Shepway District Council

30 January 2009

Dear Sir or Madam

Please accept my sincere apologies for the delayed response.

Since January 2000 the Council has responded to 334 requests under
the Freedom of Information Act. This figure does not include
requests made under FOI, where FOI did not apply. These were dealt
with seperately.

Regards

Claire Thomas Freedom of Information Officer

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From: Claire Thomas
Shepway District Council

30 January 2009

I should also add that we do not hold information as far back as
2000 around response times

Regards

Claire Thomas Freedom of Information Officer

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From: T Thomas

30 January 2009

Dear Claire Thomas,

Please answer part two of my request.

Yours sincerely,

T Thomas

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Shepway District Council

30 January 2009

Dear Sir or Madam

I am unable to answer part 2 of your request as the Council does not currently hold that information

C E Thomas
Freedom of Information/Senior Administrative Officer
Legal & Democratic Services
Shepway District Council
01303 853444
www.shepway.gov.uk

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From: T Thomas

30 January 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

But you should. It is the responsibility of the monitoring officer
to report to the council every time the council breaks the law.
Failing to meet the 20 day deadline without a valid excuse breaks
the law. Why has the monitoring officer not been bringing this to
the attention of the council. Or is that the real reason you don't
keep records? No records nothing to report.

Yours sincerely,

T Thomas

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From: T Thomas

11 February 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Shepway District
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Freedom of Information
requests'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/fr...

Yours sincerely,

T Thomas

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Shepway District Council

11 February 2009

Dear Sir or Madam

I have passed this matter to the Information Appeals Officer

Regards

C E Thomas
Freedom of Information/Senior Administrative Officer
Legal & Democratic Services
Shepway District Council
01303 853444
www.shepway.gov.uk

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Shepway District Council

19 February 2009

Dear Mr Thomas

I hope this email reaches you, since I have been unable to link up through
the website and this is the only email address I can find for you. My
colleague Ms Thomas asked me to review her dealing of your request, as in
your email of 11 February.

My review confirms what Ms Thomas has already told you. We have responded
to 334 requests under the Freedom of Information legislation as mentioned
by Ms Thomas. As she said, we do not keep a record of how many times the
council has failed to reply within the 20 day period, although every
effort is made to reply within the time.

It is not the Monitoring Officer's responsibility to keep track of this
information and report it to the council.

Yours sincerely

Estelle Culligan

Principal Solicitor

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From: T Thomas

19 February 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

You are wrong it is the monitoring officers statutory
responsibility to bring to the attention of the council every time
they break the law. Failure to respond to an FOI request within 20
days means the council is breaking the law. To suggest that the
council is not interested in knowing when it breaks the law is
ludicrous. I think it may be more appropriate if I make the
councillors aware of your cavalier attitude to them breaking the
law.

Yours sincerely,

T Thomas

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T Thomas left an annotation (19 February 2009)

Informed a councillor. Let's see if they do anything about the problem.

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