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Dear Mr Davis

I am sorry to hear that you did not receive the response to your FOI
request which was sent to you yesterday. It is possible that the attched
files were too large for our correspondence database, so I am resending the
response by email:

To : [FOI #18378 email]

CC :

Subject : Your Freedom of Information request - our ref: DE445841

Our ref: DE445841

20 October 2009

Dear Mr Davis

Thank you for your email of 22 September, which requested, under the
Freedom of Information Act, documents relating to the Information
Commissioner's recent decision notice FS50195059.

You asked:

1. With reference to the case that resulted in the Information
Commissioner's recent decision notice FS50195059 please could you provide
me with copies of all the information you supplied to the applicant prior
to decision notice being issued.

I attach the two redacted documents that were released prior to the
decision notice: the business case that the Department provided to HM
Treasury in 2002 on the new contract for consultants and part of Annex A of
that business case.

(See attached file: DE445841 - Business case PDF.pdf)(See attached file:
DE445841 - Annex A.doc)

2. Please supply me with a copy of the letter you have now been told to
release as part of the Information Commissioner's decision notice
FS50195059

The Department has not reached a decision on whether to appeal to the
Information Tribunal regarding this case.  This information is therefore
still exempt under s35(1)(a) and (b) of the Freedom of Information Act.
However, should the Department decide to release this letter, we propose to
send a copy to you without further request.

I hope that this is helpful.  If you are unhappy with the Department’s
handling of the Freedom of Information aspect of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review.  Internal review requests should be
submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your
original letter and should be addressed to:

Head of the Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health
Room 317
Richmond House
79 Whitehall ,
London
SW1A 2NS

Email: [email address]

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the ICO
cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure
provided by the Department.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted
at:

The Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Please contact me if you have any queries about this email.

Yours sincerely,

Lynn Swyny
FOI Case Manager

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Our ref: DE445841

27 October 2009

Dear Mr Davis

Further to your email of 22 September, which requested documents relating
to the Information Commissioner's decision notice FS50195059, I am now able
to confirm that the Department did not appeal to the Information Tribunal
regarding this case.

I have therefore attached a copy of the information that was the subject of
the Commissioner’s decision: a letter from the former Treasury Minister,
Paul Boateng to the former Secretary of State for Health, Alan Milburn,
dated 8th July 2002.

Yours sincerely,

Stephen Fay
FOI Team
Department of Health

(See attached file: 2002 letter HMT DH.pdf)

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