Racial make up of babies born in the last 5 years in UK

Dear Mr Baxter,

Thankyou for your e-mail of 22 May requesting an internal review of our
handling of your FOI request concerning the 'Racial make up of babies born
in the last 5 years in UK'.

According to our records we have only received one request from yourself on
this topic which is also dated today, 22 May 2009.

We cannot trace an earlier request from yourself to which we have provided
a reply. If there has been an earlier request on this topic could you
please forward it to me along with our reply. I will then initiate an
internal review as you request.

If, however, you have submitted both a FOI request and request for internal
review of that request on the same day then we can only accept the initial
FOI request as this must be answered before you can submit a request for an
internal review.

To explain the procedure, when a FOI request is received by the Department,
we are legally obliged to reply to it within 20 working days. Once the
applicant has received our reply they can request an internal review if
they are unhappy with the reply. We aim to respond to requests for internal
reviews within 20 working days also but this timescale is not a statutory
requirement, only recommended practice. If the applicant is still unhappy
with the IR reply they can further complain to the Information
Commissioner. Details of how to request internal reviews and appeal to the
IC are always included in the initial reply to the FOI request.

We will be responding to your FOI request (DE416098) within the next 20
working days.

Thankyou,

Yours sincerely

Lynwen Paddy
Librarian
Freedom of Information Team
Direct Line: 0207 210 2705
GTN Tel: 7210 2705
Email: [email address]
Address: Department of Health | 317 Richmond House | 79 Whitehall | London
SW1A 2NS

Alexander Baxter
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Subject
Internal review of Freedom of
Information request - Racial make
up of babies born in the last 5
years in UK

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 Department of
Health's handling of my FOI request 'Racial make up of babies born
in the last 5 years in UK'.

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

Yours sincerely,

Alexander Baxter

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