GA and Home Office email correspondence 29 05 09

Cassidy, J made this Freedom of Information request to Local Government Association

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From: Cassidy, J

29 May 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

My reference: LGA and Home Office email correspondence 29 05 09

Can you please email me an electronic copy, including attachments,
of all the email correspondence received and sent by Helen.Murray@
lga.gov.uk and lucy.ellender@ lga.gov.uk, including carbon copy CC
and blind carbon copy BCC functions - not just To and From, with
regards the following email addresses/individuals, over the last 12
months.

Jerry.Harland2@ homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Simon.Bentley3@ homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Keith.Lambert@ homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

brian.kinney3@ homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Email addresses:
To help prevent spam I have created a space after the @ sign,
please delete this space when using the email addresses to search
your email system.

Concerning disclosure of email messages there is no need to
disclose header data and I can accept disclosure of email messages
converted to PDF, so long as the accessibility conditions below are
adhered to. With regards any associated attachments please provide
them in accordance with the notes below.

: Your correspondence :

Please ensure that any of your general correspondence,
acknowledgements or holding letters etc are included or
cut-and-pasted into the body of the email messages, using plain
text, rather than as attachments. As this will mean your
correspondence is much easier to access, read and respond to.

: Accessibility :

When providing any information disclosures please provide it in the
original unrestricted format such as:

a. MS Word .doc or Rich Text Text .rtf format or equivalent
(suitable for disclosure of email messages)

b.Spreadsheets in MS Excel .xls format or equivalent

c.Presentations in MS Powerpoint .ppt format or equivalent

or converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), ONLY if none of the
above formats are available

if you only have a paper version (hard copy) available, please
provide a Digital Photo Copier Scanned version in PDF format. If
you do provide disclosures in PDF from a Digital Photo Copier Scan,
please state that you have done so because no other format, such as
a, b or c above, are available.

If you need to redact text elements of any disclosure can you
please ensure that the rest of text based information remains
accessible to a Screen Reader.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader>

Please ensure any electronic disclosures are absolutely free of any
Document Restrictions and Encryption or Passwords, as this is
likely to render them less usable on a general basis and more
specifically, inaccessible to Assistive Technology.

Please do not send any information in compilation archive formats,
such as .zip.

Providing correspondence and disclosed information via these means
will help ensure that text based information is accessible for use
with a Screen Reader or a Magnifier for none text based information
and will prevent any further and separate representations under the
Disability Discrimination Act. If you are unable to meet these
reasonably practicable accessibility requests please state why and
provide a copy of any internal information, such as a policy relied
upon that would explain such a decision.

Yours faithfully,

Cassidy, J

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Local Government Association

29 May 2009

Thank you for your request made under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 on 29 May 2009. We will endeavour to respond to your enquiry within
20 working days.

We will process your request in due course, but should you need to query
anything further, please email [LGA request email] quoting Case
ENQ-141358-A9BS

Please redact all personal data from this thread on the
www.whatdotheyknow.com website in accordance with the Data Protection
Act 1998

LGconnect

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Local Government Association

24 June 2009

Dear J Cassidy

Further to our email of 29 May, I am writing to inform you that we will
not have a response to your request below by Friday 26 June 2009. We
have received 5 separate requests from you related to the LGA, and it is
taking longer than anticipated to pull all the information you have
requested together. In relation to your specific request below, much of
the email correspondance is archived, and it will take more time to
access this than originally anticipated. We hope to have an answer to
your request by the end of next week.

Should you need to query anything further, please email
[1][LGA request email].

Kind Regards

LGconnect

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Local Government Association

3 July 2009

Dear J Cassidy

Further to our email of 24 June, I am writing to inform you that we
still have not collated all the emails you have requested. Retrieving
this information is taking longer than anticipated, and seperating them
all into the 3 requests for email correspondance that you have requested
is taking time. We hope to have an answer to your request early next
week.

Should you need to query anything further, please email
[1][LGA request email].

Kind Regards

LGconnect

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Local Government Association

8 July 2009

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Dear J Cassidy

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA) on 29 May 2009. Please note that the LGA is
not covered by the provisions of the Act, but we always try to deal with
such requests within the spirit of the legislation.

We have processed your request for details of specific email
correspondance between 2 LGA personnel and specific named email contacts
at the Home Office. I enclose copies of all the email correspondence
made between these people.

We have withheld some items as they fall within the following exemptions
under the FOIA:

- section 36 (prejudice to the effective conduct of public affairs) - we
believe that the disclosure of UASC negotiations would prejudice the
effective conduct of public affairs because it could prejudice the free
and frank exchange of views on UASC policy advice.

- section 41 (information provided in confidence) - we believe that the
information provided by local authorities and individuals as part of the
UASC meetings in terms of policy advice is provided in confidence and
therefore falls within this exemption.

Both the above exemptions are subject to the public interest test, and
this has been applied to all the relevant items by the LGA. In instances
where LGA staff found the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, the
documents have been withheld.

In the copies included with this letter some personal details have been
redacted in line with section 40 and our duties under the Data
Protection Act 1998.

Please note that the LGA has spent approximately five full working days
in retrieving the information you have requested

I hope this helps

LGconnect

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