Pay By Phone outages

Graham made this Freedom of Information request to Westminster City Council

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From: Graham

13 August 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

On 11th August 2009 the Verus Pay By Phone system was down and
nobody was able to pay to park in Westminster - see
http://nutsville.com/?p=908 for details of the problems

1-How many times has the Pay By Phone system been unavailable for
use (due to problems with Verus systems, telephone systems, BT
infrastructure or any other reason)

2-For each of these outages, how long were people unable to use the
system?

3-For each of these outages, how many parking tickets were issued?

4-For each of these outages, how many of these tickets were
cancelled?

5-For each of these outages, how many tickets were issued in the
hour following the system being usable again?

6-What is the WCC policy on challenges to parking tickets during
these outages or the hours after the system coming back up?

Yours faithfully,

Graham

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Westminster City Council

14 August 2009

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: Graham
Address: see email address
Email: [FOI #16948 email]
Telephone:
Request Details: On 11th August 2009 the Verus Pay By Phone system was
down and nobody was able to pay to park in Westminster - see
http://nutsville.com/?p=908 for details of the problems

1-How many times has the Pay By Phone system been unavailable for use (due
to problems with Verus systems, telephone systems, BT infrastructure or
any other reason)

2-For each of these outages, how long were people unable to use the
system?

3-For each of these outages, how many parking tickets were issued?

4-For each of these outages, how many of these tickets were cancelled?

5-For each of these outages, how many tickets were issued in the hour
following the system being usable again?

6-What is the WCC policy on challenges to parking tickets during these
outages or the hours after the system coming back up?

FOI Reference Number: 4238
Target Completion Date: 14/09/2009

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From: Graham

12 September 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I note you have yet to reply to this Freedom Of Information request
despite the 20 days allowed for a response having passed

I also note this is NOT the first time WCC have failed to meet
their legal requirements regarding FOI requests

As such I am requesting an Internal Review to:
a) Obtain the information I requested
b) Let me know why this FOI request was not responded to within the
20 days specified by law

I expect a response to the Internal Review within 20 days

For clarification, the FOI request I am referring to is here -
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pa...

Yours faithfully,

Graham

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From: Customer Relations
Westminster City Council

16 September 2009


Attachment FOI4238 Graham Holding letter.doc
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Dear Sir <<FOI4238 Graham Holding letter.doc>>

Please find the attached interim response in respect of your FOI4238
enquiry.

Yours sincerely

A Daly

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From: Customer Relations
Westminster City Council

18 September 2009


Attachment FOI4328 Graham Abd.doc
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Dear Sir <<FOI4328 Graham Abd.doc>>

Please find the attached response.

Yours sincerely,

A Daly

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From: Graham

19 September 2009

Dear Customer Relations,

Thank you for your PARTIAL reply;

1-I asked for a list of ALL the times the system was unavailable
for use, you have only provided the times it generated PCN's.
Please provide the times it was unavailable for USE as I requested

2-For each of these outages, how long were people unable to use the
system?

5-I asked "For each of these outages, how many parking tickets were
issued?" I believe the figures you have provided are for the first
hour of the outage, I am asking for the first hour after the
service was restored. Please check these figures

6-I asked "What is the WCC policy on challenges to parking tickets
during these outages or the hours after the system coming back up?"
but I do not see any answer to this question

Please reply to ALL of my questions in full

Yours sincerely,

Graham

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From: Graham

25 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 Westminster City
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Pay By Phone outages'.

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

I received only a partial reply to my FOI request and since
replying asking for clarification, I have not received any
acknowledgement or reply

To clarify, I sent the following to you on 19th September 2009

"Thank you for your PARTIAL reply;

1-I asked for a list of ALL the times the system was unavailable
for use, you have only provided the times it generated PCN's.
Please provide the times it was unavailable for USE as I requested

2-For each of these outages, how long were people unable to use the
system?

5-I asked "For each of these outages, how many parking tickets were
issued?" I believe the figures you have provided are for the first
hour of the outage, I am asking for the first hour after the
service was restored. Please check these figures

6-I asked "What is the WCC policy on challenges to parking tickets
during these outages or the hours after the system coming back up?"
but I do not see any answer to this question

Please reply to ALL of my questions in full"

Yours faithfully,

Graham

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From: FOI
Westminster City Council

25 September 2009

Dear Graham,

Thank you for your email.

I will look into your query and aim to respond within 10 working days.

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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From: FOI
Westminster City Council

7 October 2009


Attachment Response to Request for Internal Review Graham FOI 4328.doc
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Dear Graham,

Thank you for your recent email to the Council requesting an internal
review into the handling of Freedom of Information Request 4238.

Please find our response attached.

<<Response to Request for Internal Review - Graham FOI 4328.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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Norris left an annotation (31 May 2010)

Westminster City Council Verrus UK Pay By Phone Parking http://nutsville.com/ http://ukfrancebikers.com/ (cashless parking).

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