Dear Sir or Madam,

Please provide summary information on all expenditure to date
related to the London 2012 Olympics, incurred and funded by the
Council.

This should include staff salaries, elected officials expenses,
other administration and publicity expenses, funding of events and
of any projects or initiatives in any way related to the Olympics.

Yours faithfully,
Charles Batsworth

Dear Sir or Madam,

I have receive neither acknowledgement nor response to my FOI
request submitted 23/3/09. (see below)
I assume this is due to an administrative oversight and look
forward to receiving a reply.

Yours faithfully,
Charles Batsworth

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please provide summary information on all expenditure to date
related to the London 2012 Olympics, incurred and funded by the
Council.

This should include staff salaries, elected officials expenses,
other administration and publicity expenses, funding of events and
of any projects or initiatives in any way related to the Olympics.

Mr Batsworth -

I confirm that your Request was received by the Council, and was logged as
RFI/01275 whilst I was on Leave. Unfortunately the Request was
misallocated, and I am advised that no action has so far been taken on
this. I extend my apologies for both the lack of an acknowledgement, and
for the allocation mix-up.

I have now allocated this Request to officers in the Olympics Unit to
provide a response, and I will write to you again as soon as I have some
news.

Alan Soskin
Corporate Information Manager, Greenwich Council
Information Management Division. Human Resources & Organisational
Improvement
4th floor, Riverside House, Woolwich High Street, London SE18 6BU
Tel: 020 8921 5084

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Dear Mr Soskin,

I am concerned that Greenwich Council is now far in excess of the
statutory maximum of 20 days for a response to my FOI request of
March 23rd 2009.

Since the receipt of the request was confirmed on May 5th I have
had no further communication explaining why extra time is required.

Please let me know the reason for the delay.

Yours sincerely,

Charles Batsworth

Mr Batsworth -

My sincere apologies for the delay in responding to your Request.

However, please treat this email as a Refusal Notice in accordance with
the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The grounds for
refusing to provide this information to you are that the Request made is
excessive and could not possibly be met within the costs limit applicable
under the Act of £450 based on 18 hours officer time.

You have asked for "all expenditure to date" relating to the Olympics
including salaries, expenses and "funding of events and of any projects or
initiatives in any way related." I confirm that the Council holds or
partly holds such information, but not in a form that would be accessible
for reporting; and certainly not within the costs limit provided by
regulation.

If you wish to submit a Request which is more specific and which can be
provided within the costs limit then the Council will be happy to consider
afresh.

Alan Soskin
Corporate Information Manager, Greenwich Council
Information Management Division. Human Resources & Organisational
Improvement
4th floor, Riverside House, Woolwich High Street, London SE18 6BU
Tel: 020 8921 5084

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Dear Mr Batsworth

Further to the email sent to you today by my colleague Mr Soskin which
contained an initial Refusal Notice, we are able to provide some
information related to the budgets of the Council's 2012 Unit as follows:-

2006/07 2007/08 2008/09

£ £
£
2012 Unit 392,000
396,980 382,570

5 Borough Contribution 100,000 100,000
180,500

Total 492,000 496,980 563,070

My apologies for the delay in responding to your request.

Leslie Smith

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