Prepaid cards misinformation

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Name: Graham
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Email: [FOI #19473 email]
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Request Details:
In your report from your website dated 1st October 2009 covering
motorcycle parking fees, I noted that in paragraph 4.6.1 on page 6,
it says the following:-

"For those either without a debit card, credit card or bank account
or unwilling to provide their card details, it is possible to use
prepaid cards (also known as ‘pay as you go’ cards) to pay for
motorcycle parking."

Please can you explain how those "unwilling to provide their card
details" can use a "prepaid card" without providing the details of
this prepaid card?
If they provide the details of the prepaid card then they fail in
their wish of not providing their card details, if they do not
provide the details from their prepaid card then how is payment
taken?

FOI Reference Number: 4463
Target Completion Date: 03/11/2009

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Dear Graham,

Thank you for your recent request email to the Council under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000, whereby you requested the following:

Please can you explain how those "unwilling to provide their card details"
can use a "prepaid card" without providing the details of this prepaid
card? If they provide the details of the prepaid card then they fail
in their wish of not providing their card details, if they do not
provide the details from their prepaid card then how is payment taken?"

Response
This is not a request for recorded information as defined by the Freedom
of Information Act as it is asking for an interpretation of the cited
statement. For the purposes of section 1(4) this information is not held
by the Council and I am, therefore, unable to provide it.

For further information, please see the Information Commissioner's
guidance on making requests which advises on what can be requested under
the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and on how to structure a request
accordingly. For your convenience I include a link here -

[1]http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/l...

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]
[2]www.westminster.gov.uk

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