rspb

Dear Mr Robb

Thank you for your request received by us on 27^th May 2009 asking for
information under the Freedom of Information Act. We are dealing with
your request and will respond by 24^th June 2009.

With kind regards

Yours sincerely

Wendy Dalton

Business Planning Officer

JNCC

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Dear Mr Robb

In reply to your request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act, we do not hold the requested information for JNCC members of staff,
other than for Joint Nature Conservation Committee members who are
appointed by the Secretary of State.

Information on the interests of the Committee members can be found in our
annual reports and these can be accessed through our website at
[1]http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-2129

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint, please contact Sue McQueen
([2][email address]).

If you are still not satisfied following this, you can make an appeal to
the Information Commissioner who is the statutory regulator. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Telephone: 01625 545 700

[3]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Wendy Dalton

Business Planning Officer

JNCC

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Dear Mr Robb

Thank you for your email of 25^th June 2009 requesting an internal review
on your Freedom Of Information request concerning `rspb'.

The first step in our review process is for me to seek to resolve your
complaint, to enable me to do this please outline the aspects of the
handling of your request that you are dissatisfied with.

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint, please contact Sue McQueen
([1][email address]).

If you are still not satisfied following this, you can make an appeal to
the Information Commissioner who is the statutory regulator. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Telephone: 01625 545 700

[2]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Wendy Dalton

Business Planning Officer

JNCC

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Dear Mr Robb,

Ref 09/10_10

The internal review of the handling of your request for information about
RSPB members working for JNCC has been completed.

The review was conducted by the Biodiversity Research Manager who is
unconnected with either JNCC's Business Unit or Personnel team which were
directly involved in handling your request.

The appeal for internal review received by JNCC on 25 June 2009 did not
state the reason for appeal and, despite a timely request for further
information from you, no further clarification of has yet been received by
JNCC.

The conclusions of the reviewer were as follows:

. The request was correctly handled under the Freedom of
Information Act;

. The time limits recommended by the FOIA Code of Practice for
responding to the request and subsequent appeal for internal review of the
decision have been met by JNCC.

. In our response to you we:

o correctly advised you that JNCC does not hold part of the information
requested. However, we should have explained that even if JNCC did hold
this information or obtains it in future it would be exempt from
disclosure under the Act.

o correctly referred you to the pages of our website through which you
could obtain the part of the information requested that we do hold.
However, we should have explained why we did not directly provide the
information requested with our response.

Accordingly:

. we advise you that staff membership of the RSPB is deemed
personal. For this reason, even if JNCC were to hold such information,
which it does not, this would fall under the exemption from the duty to
provide information on request when that information is personal
information (section 40).

. we advise you of the reason we referred you to our website for
information about JNCC Committee members membership of RSPB rather than
directly with our response. This is because this information falls under
the exemption from the duty to provide information on request when that
information is reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means
(section 21).

I hope this information is helpful. However, if you are still not content
with the handling of your request you may write to the:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Yours Sincerely

Sue McQueen

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