Dear Sir or Madam,

I wish to make a requet for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

I wish to know the value of the Home Office's contract(s) with PA
Consulting Group. The dates upon which any such contract(s) were
signed and the nature of the work undertaken by PA Cousulting Group
for the Home Office.

I also wish to receive copies of any risk assessments carried out
by the Home Office in relation to their obligations to ensure that
their contractors are compliant with the Data Protection Principles
and to be advised if risk assessments were not carried out, why
they were not carried out.

I wish to know if any established civil servants employed by the
Home Office have any pecuniary interests in PA Consulting Group and
if so, whom and what those interests are.

Have there been any previous security breaches or data losses by PA
Consulting Group which have not yet been made public but which the
Home office is aware and if so how many, when did they occur and
what action was taken in respect of them.

Finally, I wish to be advised whether or not the Home Office intend
to continue with their business relationship with PA Consulting
Group in the light of their recent breach of the Data Protection
Act and if so, why?

I would ask that you remember the Act’s Section 16 duty on public
authorities to provide advice and assistance to requesters. If for
any reason you are leaning toward rejecting any part of this
request or if you plan to argue that it is unmanageable or
unanswerable in any way then I would expect you to contact me
promptly to find ways to answer this request to our mutual
satisfaction.

Should you have any questions or comments regarding this request or
should you be in any way unclear as to the nature and extent of the
information I am seeking, please contact me promptly and I shall be
happy to provide any clarification as may be required.

Yours faithfully,

Stephen Gradwick

Dear Mr Gradwick

Thank you for your e-mail of 22 August in which you ask for information
about Home Office contracts with PA Consulting Group. Your request is
being handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as
a request for information.

We aim to send you a full response within 20 working days of our
receiving your request. You should receive this response by 22
September.

If you have any queries about the handling of your information request
please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Steve Kirk

Information Rights Team

Information Management Service

4th Floor

Seacole Building (NE)

Home Office

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

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Dear Mr Gradwick

I am writing further to my correspondence of 28 August regarding your
information request in which you asked for information about Home Office
contracts with PA Consulting Group.

I regret that we are unable to send you a full response to your request
within 20 working days, as required by the Freedom of Information Act.
We are still collating all of the information you requested and I would
like to apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience that this may
cause. I would like to assure you that we are dealing with your request
as a matter of urgency, and that we will send you a full reply as soon
as possible. We now aim to send you a full reply by 20 October.

If you have any queries about the handling of your information request
in the meantime then please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Steve Kirk

Information Rights Team

Information Management Service

4th Floor

Seacole Building (NE)

Home Office

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

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Dear Mr Kirk,

In your previous reply, you stated that you aimed to send a reply
by the revised date of the 20th October, yet no reply has been
forthcoming.

Please could you issue a formal reply or a refusal notice.

Should I not hear from you today, I will submit a complaint to the
Information Commissioner.

Yours sincerely,

Stephen Gradwick

Dear Mr Gradwick

Thank you for your email. I am sorry that we have not yet been able to
send you a substantive response to your request. Unfortunately this case
is taking longer to complete that we had hoped, but I am confident that
we should be able to provide a full response within the next fortnight.

I appreciate your frustration about this matter, and should you wish to
do so you are of course at liberty to submit a complaint to the
Information Commissioner.

Yours sincerely

Oliver Lendrum

Information Rights Team

Information Management Service | Shared Services Directorate | Home
Office |
4th Floor | Seacole Building | 2 Marsham Street | London | SW1P 4DF

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