Dear Sir or Madam,

Westminster City Council conducted an on-street survey where they
approached end users of the pay by phone motorcycle parking bays.
Please may I have a copy of the results from Westminster's most
recent M/C on street survey. I believe this took place either late
2008 or early 2009.

Yours faithfully,

Lucy Adams

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Name: Lucy Adams
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Email: [FOI #10447 email]
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Request Details: Westminster City Council conducted an on-street survey
where they approached end users of the pay by phone motorcycle parking
bays. Please may I have a copy of the results from Westminster's most
recent M/C on street survey. I believe this took place either late 2008 or
early 2009.

FOI Reference Number: 3733
Target Completion Date: 15/05/2009

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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 Westminster City
Council's handling of my FOI request 'on-street survey motocycle
parking survey'.

I am disappointed you have broken the law and not thus far provided
the results of this survey which the tax payer has paid for. There
seems to be quite a lot of law bending going on at Westminster
these days. I would also like to know how much this survey cost the
tax payer?

Could the reason you do not want this survey made public is that is
shows the majority of public are against your illegal tax on
parking motorcycles?

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

Yours sincerely,

Lucy Adams

Dear Ms Adams,

Please find the enclosed attachment below.

<<FOI3733 Adams kr.doc>>

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Dear MotorCycleParking,

Thank you for the latest survey results, and after reading these
results where over 77% of all motorist were opposed to 'pay by
phone' charging for bike parking I can understand now why you were
so reluctant to release this information within the time scale set
out in the FOI law.

As these survey results seem to have been completely ignored by
Westminster City Council, in favour of adding still further to the
coffers of the American own company 'Verrus Mobile Technologies
Inc.' who provide the 'pay by phone' technology, please can you
tell me how much tax payers money was spent overall in
commissioning and administering this ignored on street parking
survey?

Yours sincerely,

Lucy Adams

Dear Sir or Madam,

In addition to my last question, please can you tell me why in the
survey results you provided many of the percentages quoted are
mathematically incorrect, and in the wrong columns?

Your document also states that there were 628 motorists
interviewed.

But further down the page in your document it states “amongst the
628 motorcyclists questioned “

Were all the motorists questioned motorcyclists?
If any car drivers were questioned, how many?
Have I been provided with false and inaccurate information in your
answer to my FOI request?
Who checked and prepared your survey results?
Were these the figures present to the Scrutiny committee meeting
held on the 31st March 2009?

Yours sincerely,

Lucy Adams

Dear Ms Adams

Thank you for your recent email. As you are asking for clarification
regarding the response to your latest request, I have forwarded your
email to the officer who dealt with your request to respond.

Yours sincerely,
Catherine Preston
Corporate Data Protection/FOI Team
Information Services
Westminster City Council
18th Floor
City Hall
64 Victoria Street
London SW1E 6QP
Tel: 020 7641 3332
Fax: 020 7641 2872
Email: [email address]

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Dear Ms Adams,

Please find the enclosed attachment:

<<mc04198 Adams kr.doc>>

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Hello

In my request for further clarification made on the 26th May 2009 I
have outstanding questions left unanswered, they are:

1)Have I been provided with false and
inaccurate information in your answer to my FOI request? I ask this
because the figures you have sent me to not add up. In other words
they are incorrect, mathematically wrong, false, inaccurate, that's
as best as I can describe these figures.
2)Do you believe the figures you have supplied me with to be
mathematically correct?
3)Who checked and prepared your survey results? I think that your
previous answer to this was Steer Davies Gleave. So, can you say
that the figures you have sent me were not checked or prepared by
any officer of Westminster City Council? In other words the figures
you have sent me were as supplied by Steer Davies Gleave and no
Westminster City Council officer checked the figures before passing
them on the the Scrutiny Committee?
4)Were these the figures put before the Scrutiny committee meeting
held on the 31st March
2009?
5)If you agree that these figure are incorrect and they are the
same as were presented to the Scrutiny Committee meeting held on
the 31st March 09, is the council seeking either a full or partial
refund for the fee paid to Steer Davies Gleave, as you seem to
suggest in your last reply that they were solely responsible for
the figures you have sent me.

Yours sincerely,

Lucy Adams

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 Westminster City
Council's handling of my FOI request 'on-street survey motocycle
parking survey'.

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

Yours sincerely,

Lucy Adams

Dear Lucy Adams

You have requested an internal review of Westminster City Councils
handling of your FOI request
however; I am unsure what exactly it is you require us to review, please
could you elaborate on this request?

Yours sincerely

Motorcycle

Motorcycle Parking Team

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Dear MotorCycleParking,

Please can you explain in more detail which of the questions asked
on the 12th June you do not understand. I have copied them again
below:--

1)Have I been provided with false and inaccurate information in
your answer to my FOI request? I ask this because the figures you
have sent me to not add up. In other words they are incorrect,
mathematically wrong, false, inaccurate, that's as best as I can
describe these figures. 2)Do you believe the figures you have
supplied me with to be mathematically correct? 3)Who checked and
prepared your survey results? I think that your previous answer to
this was Steer Davies Gleave. So, can you say that the figures you
have sent me were not checked or prepared by any officer of
Westminster City Council? In other words the figures you have sent
me were as supplied by Steer Davies Gleave and no Westminster City
Council officer checked the figures before passing them on the the
Scrutiny Committee? 4)Were these the figures put before the
Scrutiny committee meeting held on the 31st March 2009? 5)If you
agree that these figure are incorrect and they are the same as were
presented to the Scrutiny Committee meeting held on the 31st March
09, is the council seeking either a full or partial refund for the
fee paid to Steer Davies Gleave, as you seem to suggest in your
last reply that they were solely responsible for the figures you
have sent me.

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Please send the above question to your internal review panel, if
they do not wish to answer these question in seven days I will pass
the matter on. I take this matter very seriously, as I do not
believe the council should use tax payers money to pay for surveys
which are incorrect. These survey results were passed on to the
Scrutiny Committee, yet they are incorrect, but so far you have not
addressed this point, even though I have now mentioned this fact
more than once in this FOI request.

Yours sincerely,

Lucy Adams

Dear Ms Adams,

The Council has received correspondence from the Information
Commissioner's Office asking for an internal review to be undertaken with
regard to the handling of your request submitted under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (our ref. 3733).

Please find our response attached.

<<09-09-10 Response to Request for Internal Review via ICO - Adams.doc>>

Kindest regards,

Tanya Holden
Data Protection & FOI Officer
Knowledge and Information Management
Westminster City Council
101 Orchardson Street
London, NW8 8EA
Tel: 0207 641 6451
Fax: 0207 641 2872
Email: [Westminster City Council request email]
[1]www.westminster.gov.uk

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Dear Tanya Holden,

I have revised question 5 to make it easier for you to answer.
Math's is math's, so it is not a matter of opinion whether the
figures supplied to me were inaccurate, therefore my revised
question 5 is:

5)Is the council seeking or have already sought either a full or
partial refund for the fee paid to Steer Davies Gleave for this
survey?

Yours sincerely,

Lucy Adams

Confirmation of Freedom Of Information Request

Thank you for your request for information.

Your request details have now been recorded and will be passed on to the
appropriate Divisional Records Officer for action.

This Freedom Of Information Request was based on the following
information:

Name: Lucy Adams
Address: See email address
Email: [FOI #10447 email]
Telephone:
Request Details: 5)Is the council seeking or have already sought
either a full or
partial refund for the fee paid to Steer Davies Gleave for this
survey?

FOI Reference Number: 4353
Target Completion Date: 08/10/2009

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This is an automatic response to your request, and replies to this message
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Dear Ms Adams,

Thank you for your request submitted to the council under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

You asked to be provided with the following information:

Is the council seeking or have already sought either a full or partial
refund for the fee paid to Steer Davies Gleave for this survey?

Response

I can confirm that the council is not seeking, nor has it already sought,
either a full or partial refund of the fee paid to Steer Davies Gleave.

Kindest regards,

Tanya Holden
Data Protection & FOI Officer
Knowledge and Information Management
Westminster City Council
101 Orchardson Street
London, NW8 8EA
Tel: 0207 641 6451
Fax: 0207 641 2872
Email: [Westminster City Council request email]
[1]www.westminster.gov.uk

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