Procedures for handling UK identity cards handed in as lost property

Dear Home Office,

You have started issuing Identity Cards to UK Passport
holders in Manchester. Please tell me:

1. What guidance the Home Office has given Manchester-area
police forces for procedures for handling a UK identity card that
is handed in as lost property.

2. What procedures the Home Office has put in place for handling a
UK identity card that is returned to you as lost property.

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Watson

Dear Home Office,

Please note that your response to my Freedom of Information Act
request on your procedures for handling UK identity cards handed in
as lost property, is now overdue.

As you you, the law requires that you respond to FOI requests
"promptly and in any event not later than the twentieth working day
following the date of receipt." Allowing for bank holidays, that
final deadline expired on 21st January.

Please let me know when I can expect a response to my request.

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Watson

Dear Home Office,

On 20th December I sent you a Freedom of Information Act request
about your procedures for handling ID cards handed in as lost
property. This request is attached below for your convenience.

Twenty five clear working days have now elapsed since this request
was submitted, and I have not yet received your reply, nor even an
acknowledgement.

As you know, under the Freedom of Information Act, you are obliged
to respond "promptly and in any event not later than the twentieth
working day following the date of receipt".

Please acknowledge receipt of this note, and let me know when I can
expect your response to my original request.

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Watson

[Copy of original request, sent on 20th December]

Dear Home Office,

You have started issuing Identity Cards to UK Passport holders in
Manchester. Please tell me:

1. What guidance the Home Office has given Manchester-area police
forces for procedures for handling a UK identity card that is
handed in as lost property.

2. What procedures the Home Office has put in place for handling a
UK identity card that is returned to you as lost property.

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Watson

Dear IPSFOIs,

Thank you for your email of 2nd February (Your ref: FOICR 13889/10
- ACK) acknowledging the FOI request that I originally submitted on
20th December, requesting information on guidance issued and
procedures in place for handling lost Identity Cards. For your
reference, the original request and subsequent correspondence are
available to view here:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pr...

In your email, you said that you aim to provide a response by 23rd
February, but I have yet to receive one.

Might I remind you of your obligation, under law, to comply with
requests "promptly and in any event not later than the twentieth
working day following the date of receipt".

Please let me know when I can expect a response to my request.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Watson

Dear Home Office,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of the Home Office's
handling of my FOI request 'Procedures for handling UK identity
cards handed in as lost property'.

I asked:

1. What guidance the Home Office has given Manchester-area police
forces for procedures for handling a UK identity card that is
handed in as lost property.

2. What procedures the Home Office has put in place for handling a
UK identity card that is returned to you as lost property.

Thank you for your answer to question 2 ("... should a recovered
card be returned to IPS by a third party, the card is cancelled a
securely destroyed. A record of the cancelled card is retained on
the system and details are provided to border agencies.").

However, you have not answered question 1. While it may be
interesting to know that "handling guidance ... will be issued to
all police authorities in due course", I asked what guidance you
have already given to Manchester-area police forces. Please answer
the question that I asked.

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

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Watson