Photographs of members

Steve Elibank made this Freedom of Information request to House of Lords

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From: Steve Elibank

18 January 2010

Dear House of Lords,

Please treat this as a request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

Do you hold electronic, hi-resolution photographs of all your
members? (Perhaps the ones on their security-passes?)

If 'yes', under what circumstances would you consider releasing any
or all of the said photos to the public?

Yours faithfully,

Steve Elibank

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From: House Of Lords Information Office
House of Lords

18 January 2010

Thank you for your email.

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Thank you.

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From: FOI LORDS
House of Lords

20 January 2010

Dear Mr Elibank

I am writing to acknowledge your request for information received by the House of Lords administration on 18 January. You should expect a response from us no later than 15 February.

In addition we have today received an identical request in your name, could you please confirm that this request was sent by you. If this is the case we will only respond to the first request we received.

Yours sincerely

Alex Daybank
Information Compliance Manager
House of Lords
London SW1A 0PW
www.parliament.uk/lords

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From: Steve Elibank

20 January 2010

Dear Alex;
My mistake, yes, I accidentally submitted two!

Steve

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From: FOI LORDS
House of Lords

21 January 2010

Thank you Steve.

We will respond by 15 February.

Regards

Alex

Alex Daybank | Information Compliance Manager| Parliamentary Archives | 8481

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From: FOI LORDS
House of Lords

9 February 2010

Dear Mr. Elibank

Thank you for your e-mail of 18 January.

We hold images of Members of the House of Lords for the purpose of the parliamentary pass system. The quality of these images is sufficient for their use on these passes.

If we were to receive a request for these photographs which constitute personal data within the meaning of section 1 of the Data Protection Act 1998 we would be obliged to consider whether disclosure would be compatible with the Data Protection Principles.

You may wish to be aware that photographs of Members of the House of Lords are already available to the public on the parliamentary website at http://www.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffi...

These are supplied by Dods and are subject to the following copyright statement:

"All photographs of individual MPs and Peers on the biographical pages and Committee pages are the exclusive property of Dods and are protected under international copyright laws. The photographs may not be reproduced, copied, stored or manipulated in any form without the written permission of Dods unless for non-commercial purposes, provided permission is sought beforehand and the photo is credited. For more information on these photos, please email [email address]"

Yours sincerely

Frances Grey
Freedom of Information Officer
House of Lords

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From: Steve Elibank

9 February 2010

Dear Sir/Madam;,

You appear to have misunderstood my request. It was specifically
about whether or not the House of Lords holds high-resolution
photographs of its members. If I could receive a straightforward
yes/no answer to this relatively simple question, it would be
appreciated.

Yours sincerely,
Steve Elibank

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From: FOI LORDS
House of Lords

10 February 2010

Dear Mr. Elibank,

Further to your e-mail of 9 February I have been informed that the photographs are of a very low resolution.

Yours sincerely

Frances Grey
Freedom of Information Officer
House of Lords

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