LG Act 1974 Part III Section 32(3) notices

Dear Sir

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. Please find attached
acknowledgement letter.

Yours faithfully

Katrina Jenkins
Legal Officer
Property and Finance
Legal, Licensing and Registration
Civic Hall
Leeds
LS1 1UR

Tel: 0113 2474392
Fax: 0113 2474651
e-mail: [Leeds City Council request email]
www.leeds.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Nunn,

thank you for your recent Freedom o f Information request. Please find
attached our response.

Victoria Ashwood
DP/FOI Practitioner Customer Services
tel 2660086 (int do NOT use a 9) 0113 376 0086 ext.
Fax 0113 245 6931
email [email address]

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Dear Mr Nunn,

thank you for your recent email, please find attached our acknowledgement
letter.

Victoria Ashwood
DP/FOI Practitioner Customer Services
tel 2660086 (int do NOT use a 9) 0113 376 0086 ext.
Fax 0113 245 6931
email [email address]

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Dear Mr Nunn,

thank you for your recent request for an internal review of the handling
of your Freedom of Infomation request.

Please find attached our response.

Victoria Ashwood
DP/FOI Practitioner Customer Services
tel 2660086 (int do NOT use a 9) 0113 376 0086 ext.
Fax 0113 245 6931
email [email address]

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Dear Mr Nunn,

Following correspondence with the Information Commissioner's office (ICO)
about your request, the ICO has asked me to write to you in an attempt to
resolve this matter informally.

1. The ICO asked us if there was anyone who would be able to recall the
files where we served these notices. Complaints to the Ombudsman are dealt
with by more than one person at this authority, but in any event you will
appreciate that there is no prospect of relying on personal
recollections given that as we have already confirmed, 1,000 plus
complaints have been handled over the last 5 years.

2. I can confirm there is no separate central record of these notices held
by Legal Services or anyone else, nor is there any legal
requirement for these notices to be dealt with by lawyers, or for such a
record to be kept.

3. We estimate that the time to review each file for the last two years is
approximately 4 to 5 minutes. This is based on the check we carried out on
the sample of 57 electronic files for the current financial year. For
cases over 2 years old there are only paper files, and these will take
longer to check. It therefore follows that as there are in excess of 1,000
files, even at the conservative estimate of between 4 to 5 minutes,
it would take substantially longer than 18 hours to complete the
exercise.

4. Based on the sample of 57 files reviewed, where we established
6 notices had been served, this represents a figure of approximately 11%
of the total. If this percentage is then applied to the total number
of cases for the last five years one is left with a figure of
approximately 127.

I hope this information is now a sufficient response to your request.

Yours sincerely

Mark Turnbull

Head of Property, Finance & Technology
Legal, Licensing and Registration Services
Leeds City Council
Tel: 0113 2474408
Fax: 0113 2443526
[mobile number]
email: [1][email address]
www.leeds.gov.uk

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