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ID Card environmental impact assessment
Alan Cox made this Freedom of Information request to Home Office
The request was successful.
From: Alan Cox
19 August 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
As many millions of ID cards will be required by the scheme,
manufactured, processed, lost, replaced, and disposed of they have
a significant environmental cost.
Can you therefore provide me with copies of
- The environmental impact assessments that were made on the cards
before a final design was selected
- The estimate of the number of cards that will be recycled or
disposed of each year
once the scheme is running fully
- The planned procedure for the recycling of cards
Yours faithfully,
Alan Cox
From: HQ Enquiries
25 August 2009
Headquarters
Parliamentary & Correspondence Management Team
8^th Floor, Globe House
89 Eccleston Square
London
SW1V 1PN
Tel (0300) 222 0000
Fax (0870) 336 9175
Email [email address]
Web www.ips.gov.uk
Alan Cox
[email address]
Reference: FOICR 12687/09
25 August 2009
Dear Mr Cox,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
Thank you for your email of 19 August in which you ask for information on
the environmental impact of identity cards.
Your request is being handled in accordance with the terms of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000.
We aim to send you a substantive reply to your request within 20 working
days of our receiving it on 20 August 2009. Therefore you should receive
a substantive response by 18 September 2009.
If you have any queries regarding the handling of your information request
please do not hesitate to contact us.
Yours faithfully,
P Murphy
Identity and Passport Service
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From: Alan Cox
19 September 2009
Dear HQ Enquiries,
You wrote "Your request is being handled in accordance with the
terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. "
May I remind you that the Freedom of Information act required a
response by the 17th September. You appear therefore to be in
breach of the law and not as you claimed handling the request in
accordance with the terms of the act. I am somewhat disappointed
that you should have failed to handle what should be a simple
request.
I therefore request an internal review takes place and you fulfil
your legal obligations promptly. Should you fail to do so the
matter will naturally be escalated to the Information Commissioner.
Yours sincerely,
Alan Cox
From: Alan Cox
19 September 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 Home Office's
handling of my FOI request 'ID Card environmental impact
assessment'.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/id...
Yours faithfully,
Alan Cox
From: Reid Hazel
22 September 2009
Dear Mr Cox
Please see the attached reply to your recent Freedom of Information
request.
<<12687 A Cox response.doc>>
Hazel Reid
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From: Alan Cox
22 September 2009
Dear Reid Hazel,
Thank your for your message. Unfortunately the document you
reference does not contain the information requested.
It contains some boiler plate about the goals of the IPS in
minimising environmental harm and eferences to a data centre audit,
which is not part of the card selection process but of the
computing impact. I note this review while cited has not been
published either that I can find.
The document thus contains no material relevant to the query such
as analysis of the decomposability of the cards considered, the
number that will be recycled each year etc. In short it contains
the top level goals and platitudes not the material information
necessary to make or to show that the work was done properly.
As your claim of section 21 exemption appears to be improper I
regret that I must continue my request for an internal review.
Yours sincerely,
Alan Cox
From: Riddle Martin (IMS)
Home Office
13 October 2009
Dear Mr Cox
I am writing to you in response to your request for an Internal Review of
the handling of your freedom of information request within your email
dated 20^th September 2009 and received by the Home Office on the 21st
September 2009
This case has been assigned the case reference number of 12687 and I have
asked to conduct the internal review on your behalf. We aim to send
you a response in accordance with our internal procedures to this
complaint by no later than the 16^th November 2009. I will be in touch
again shortly, but please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any
queries about the handling of your request in the meantime.
Many Thanks
Martin Riddle | Information Access Team
Information Management Service | Financial and Commercial Group
Ground Floor | Seacole Building | Home Office | 2 Marsham Street | London
SW1P 4DF
Switchboard Number: 0207 035 4848
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From: Riddle Martin (IMS)
Home Office
17 November 2009
Dear Mr Cox
I write to apologise that I have not been able to complete your internal
review by the specified date of the 16^th November 2009. I am still
investigating your case and hope to now complete this internal review by
the 8^th December. I apologise for this delay and assure you that I am
doing everything I can to conclude this internal review for you and update
you on my findings as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience in this matter. If you have any queries in the
mean time on this matter, please feel free to contact me.
Many Thanks
Martin Riddle | Information Access Team
Information Management Service | Financial and Commercial Group
Ground Floor | Seacole Building | Home Office | 2 Marsham Street | London
SW1P 4DF
Switchboard Number: 0207 035 4848
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From: Riddle Martin (IMS)
Home Office
10 December 2009
Dear Mr Cox,
I would like to apologise for the delay that you have experienced while
waiting for an outcome to your internal review. I advised you that I
aimed to complete you internal review by the 8^th December. Unfortunately
this has not been possible. Although I have concluded and made my
recommendations on this review, this has since resulted in some
discussions on the case that has held up our response to you. I hope to
still provide you with a full response on the findings of this review by
the 24^th December 2009, however please be aware that you may not receive
a response to your internal review until the 8^th January 2010. Please
accept my apologies.
Many Thanks
Martin Riddle | Information Access Team
Information Management Service | Financial and Commercial Group
Ground Floor | Seacole Building | Home Office | 2 Marsham Street | London
SW1P 4DF
Switchboard Number: 0207 035 4848
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From: Riddle Martin (IMS)
Home Office
6 January 2010
Dear Mr Cox
I previously informed you that you should receive an outcome response to
your internal review by the 8^th January 2010. I also advised you that my
recommendations and prompted some discussions on the case that has held up
our response to you. I regret to inform you that the outcome of my
internal review is still under discussion and that it is unlikely that we
will be able to respond to you by the 8^th January. I apologise for the
delay and hope to issue you our response no later than the 29^th January
2010, by this time all issues surrounding your case should be resolved.
Many Thanks
Martin Riddle | Information Access Team
Information Management Service | Financial and Commercial Group
Ground Floor | Seacole Building | Home Office | 2 Marsham Street | London
SW1P 4DF
Switchboard Number: 0207 035 4848
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From: Alan Cox
6 January 2010
Dear Riddle Martin (IMS),
Thank you for your reply, or was it generated by an automatic
excuse machine ? I take heart in the fact the information
commissioner has stated he intends to pursue and prosecute
perpetually stalling civil servants, and if I don't get the final
data by the 29th January will be writing to him to file a complaint
and to suggest you as a good starting point.
Yours sincerely,
Alan Cox
From: Riddle Martin (IMS)
Home Office
29 January 2010
Dear Mr Cox
I last wrote to you regarding the planned outcome response to your
internal review on the 6^th January 2010. I regret to inform you that I
am again unable to issue you the outcome of your internal review at this
time and apologise for the ongoing delay. At present the internal review
on this case is complete, and I am currently awaiting approval to issue
you the planned response. I apologise for the delay and hope to issue
you our response no later than the 19^th February 2010.
If you are dissatisfied with the time this review has taken you have the
right of complaint to the Information Commissioner at the following
address:
The Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Many Thanks
Martin Riddle | Information Access Team
Information Management Service | Financial and Commercial Group
Ground Floor | Seacole Building | Home Office | 2 Marsham Street | London
SW1P 4DF
Switchboard Number: 0207 035 4848
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From: Riddle Martin (IMS)
Home Office
18 February 2010
Dear Mr Cox
I regret to inform you that I am again unable to issue you the outcome of
your internal review at this time and apologise for the ongoing delay. I
am awaiting approval to issue you the planned response. I apologise for
the delay and hope to issue you our response within the week. You should
receive the response no later than the 26^th February 2010.
If you are dissatisfied with the time this review has taken you have the
right of complaint to the Information Commissioner at the following
address:
The Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Many Thanks
Martin Riddle | Information Access Team
Information Management Service | Financial and Commercial Group
Ground Floor | Seacole Building | Home Office | 2 Marsham Street | London
SW1P 4DF
Switchboard Number: 0207 035 4848
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From: Information Access
Home Office
5 March 2010
Mr Cox,
Please find attached the response to your internal review request.
Regards,
Information Access Team
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From: Alan Cox
5 March 2010
Dear Information Access,
Thank you for your response and the pointer to the environmental
regulations. Your response however appears to be in error in your
response.
Schedule 1 of the WEEE regulations of 2006 includes
"Other products and equipment for the collection, storage,
processing,
presentation or communication of information by electronic means"
As the ID card contains a smart chip and performs some of these
actions it would appear to be WEEE, which means your response
indicating that the disposal is up to the householder is not
correct. Could you clarify this part of your response therefore.
Yours sincerely,
Alan Cox
From: IPSFOIs
23 April 2010
Dear Mr Cox,
Thank you for your further query of 5 March, which has been passed to
the Identity and Passport Service to reply direct. I am sorry that it
has taken so long to do so.
I can clarify that the disposal of the ID Card does not fall under the
WEEE regulations. It does have a smartchip that is similar to that
incorporated into all European passports but this in itself does not
bring it under these regulations.
As guidance from the Environment Agency makes clear, a product does not
fall under the WEEE regulations if it does not use electricity to fulfil
its main purpose
(http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/bus...).
The ID Card does not use electricity to fulfil its main purpose - it can
still be used as a form of identity and a travel document without use of
the chip. Thus WEE regulations do not apply, in the same way that they
do not apply to passports across Europe today that contain similar
technologies to our particular chip.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
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