Dear House of Commons,
Please could you please tell me if you have to be a member of
society in the UK?
To clarify this, is it legal to be free by living a peaceful and
lawful excitence without having to adhere to statute law?
Would it be possible for me to hunt, fish and provide fuel for my
dwelling and live on common land without breaking statute law?
As it is my wish to not be a part of this society as I believe it
is corrupt, could you please advise me if it is possible to opt
out?

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Wright

Dear Mrs Wright

Thank you for your email copied below.

This information is not held by the House of Commons. These are all good questions but they can not be answered by reference to information held by the House of Commons for the purposes of the FOI Act.

You may, if dissatisfied with the treatment of your request, ask the House of Commons to conduct an internal review of this decision. Requests for internal review should be addressed to: Freedom of Information Officer, Department of Resources, House of Commons London SW1 OAA or [House of Commons request email]. Please ensure that you specify the nature of your complaint and any arguments or points that you wish to make.

If you remain dissatisfied, you may appeal to the Information Commissioner at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely

Bob Castle

Head of Information Rights and Information Security

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Dear House of Commons,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of House of Commons's
handling of my FOI request 'How can I be free'.

I believe one of the most fundamental parts of existence is to be
free and live a virtuous life.

My FOI request is clear and concise and i believe should be easy to
answer. If i can not get an answer or be directed or guided to the
appropriate government department for an answer, i can only assume
the answer to my questions is yes.

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

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Wright

Dear Mrs Wright,

Thank you for your email.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) entitles individuals to request access to information that is held by a public authority. In response to such requests, public authorities are obliged to confirm or deny whether that information is held (section 1, FOIA). If the information is held, the public authority must disclose that information, unless exemptions apply (section 2, FOIA). Your question calls for a speculative response based on opinion rather than by reference to recorded information held by a public authority and this is outside of the scope of the Act. Therefore as stated in my original response, for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act, no information is held by the House of Commons regarding the question, "How can I be free". While we would of course otherwise seek to point you towards another public authority, we simply do not know which one to suggest.

For the reasons stated above, it therefore unclear what aspect of your request you are asking us to review. But, if you could suggest what sort of recorded information might provide an insight into this intriguing question we could look again.

I am sorry that we have not been able to help you as you would have liked, but I do hope that we have been able to give you some clarification on this matter.

Yours sincerely,

Bob Castle
Head of Information Rights and Information Security

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Dear FOICOMMONS,
Thank you for your response.

I am absolutely staggered that this question has not been answered,
and by your response.

The question was clear and concise and should have been easy to
answer. A simple yes or no would have sufficed.

It is intriguing, to say the least, that a simple question
regarding ones freedom cannot be answered.

It certainly raises the question, why ?

In my last post, it should have read

"If i can not get an answer or be directed or guided to the
appropriate government department for an answer, i can only assume
the answer to my questions is no".
(i inadvetaintly put yes)

Therefore would i be right to assume, that as you do not have any
recorded information regarding my question, that you do not have to
be a member of society ?

This would of course mean, that you do not have to adhere to
statute law, so would not need any licences, would not be subject
to fines, taxes or any other statutes that would apply to a member
of society.

Could you please clarify that my assumptions are correct.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Wright

Dear Mrs Wright
I am sorry that you are not satisfied with this response but there really is no more we can add to our previous responses. If you wish to take this further you might consider exercising your right under the FOI law to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner about our handling of your request.
You should address your complaint to the Information Commissioner at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely
Bob Castle

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