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PTA with Libya
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From: M Bimmler
5 September 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
I request access to all records held by the Cabinet Office or the
Prime Minister's Office in connection
with the negotiations of a Prisoner Transfer Agreement with the
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
If the amount of documents is too large to evaluate under the cost
threshold provision of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I ask
you to restrict this query only to documents created in December
2007.
Yours faithfully,
M Bimmler (Mr)
Cabinet Office
7 September 2009
CABINET OFFICE REFERENCE: FOI268405
Dear Mr Bimmler,
Thank you for your request for information. Your request was received on
07/09/2009 and is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case, I will
let you know the likely charges before proceeding.
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Team
Cabinet Office
E: [1][Cabinet Office request email]
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From: M Bimmler
20 October 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
This request is clearly overdue.
Yours faithfully,
M Bimmler
Cabinet Office
23 October 2009
Dear Mr Bimmler,
Please see the attached response to your FOI request.
Regards,
Miss W Dalton
The Cabinet Office computer systems may be monitored and communications carried on them recorded, to secure the effective operation of the system and for other lawful purposes.
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Cabinet Office
23 November 2009
Dear Mr Bimmler,
Please see the attached response to your FOI request.
Regards,
Miss W Dalton
The Cabinet Office computer systems may be monitored and communications carried on them recorded to secure the effective operation of the system and for other lawful purposes.
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From: M Bimmler
30 November 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 Cabinet Office's
handling of my FOI request 'PTA with Libya'.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pt...
I believe that the Public Interest Tests with respect to Sections
27 and 35 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 have not been
carried out correctly and should be reviewed. Moreover, the
reference to Section 42 (Legal Professional Privilege) is very
vague and I ask for a schedule of documents withheld only or also
relying on Section 42. I will then decide whether I shall ask for a
review of the application of Section 42 as well.
Yours faithfully,
M Bimmler
Cabinet Office
1 December 2009
Dear M Bimmler
Thank you for Internal Review request dated 30/11/2009. This is receiving
attention.
Kind Regards,
FOI Team
Cabinet Office
E: [1][Cabinet Office request email]
The Cabinet Office computer systems may be monitored and communications
carried on them recorded, to secure the effective operation of the system
and for other lawful purposes.
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Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or
recorded for legal purposes.
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From: M Bimmler
7 January 2010
Dear Cabinet Office,
May I have some guidance on when I can expect the Internal Review
in this case to be finished?
This would be much appreciated.
Yours faithfully,
Michael Bimmler
From: M Bimmler
19 January 2010
Dear Cabinet Office,
again I wish to ask that you do provide an estimate of when your
answer to my IR request will be forthcoming.
Yours faithfully,
M Bimmler
From: M Bimmler
31 January 2010
Dear Cabinet Office,
you will undoubtedly have noted my Internal Review request of
November 30th, 2009. This Internal Review request is now overdue
according to the targets set by the Information Commissioner in his
guidance (20 days).
I should be grateful for a response during the next week.
Otherwise, I must consider raising this with the ICO.
Yours faithfully,
M Bimmler
M Bimmler left an annotation (31 March 2010)
2nd March 2010
Case Reference Number FS50295029
Dear Mr Bimmler,
Your information request to the Cabinet Office
Thank you for your correspondence dated 8 February 2010 in which you make a complaint about the Cabinet Office.
Your case has been allocated to one of our case resolution teams who will contact you as soon as possible to explain how your complaint will be progressed.
The Information Commissioner’s Office is an independent public body set up to promote public access to official information. We will rule on eligible complaints from people who are unhappy with the way public authorities have handled requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
If you need to contact us about any aspect of your complaint please contact our Freedom of Information Helpline on 0303 123 1113, being sure to quote the reference number at the top of this letter.
Yours sincerely,
Jenny Sanders
Sent on behalf of
Mr Andrew White
FoI Triage Team Leader
Information Commissioner’s Office
Cabinet Office
30 April 2010
Please see the attached letter.
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M Bimmler left an annotation (19 June 2010)
(for the record)
I have further appealed the use of the exemptions cited in the IR letter and it is now under consideration by the ICO
M Bimmler left an annotation (24 February 2011)
I have today received a quite detailed DN in this case (FS50295029). I assume it will go up on the ICO website soon, but will see whether I can scan it in before that.
In essence, most of the documents remain withheld, while the ICO has ordered release of a small minority of previously withheld documents.
I am considering whether I should appeal this and will be grateful for any comments here or via e-mail.
M Bimmler left an annotation (25 February 2011)
Scanned it and available for download here:
https://freepository.com/cgi-bin/downloa...
M Bimmler left an annotation (18 March 2011)
here is the ICO version of the DN:
http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/...
Slightly nicer to read and slimmer to download than my wannabe high-res colour scan...
From: Richard Walker
1 June 2011
Dear Mr Bimmler,
Please find attached a response regarding your FOI request.
I apologise for the time it has taken for you to receive this.
Kind regards,
Richard Walker | Middle East and North Africa | National Security Secretariat
Cabinet Office | 70 Whitehall | London | SW1A 2AS
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M Bimmler left an annotation ( 8 February 2010)
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