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From: David Watson
10 March 2010
Dear Electoral Commission,
Please provide the following information:
The number of constituencies for which the returning officer did
not supply you with a copy of the Statement of Persons Nominated as
required by section 14(5)(a) in Schedule 1 of the Representation of
the People Act 1983 (as amended 2000) in respect of the United
Kingdom Parliamentary Elections held on 5th May 2005.
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
David Watson
From: David Watson
13 April 2010
Dear Electoral Commission,
Your response to this request is delayed beyond the time prescribed
by the FOI Act. Is there some problem ?
Yours faithfully,
David Watson
From: Esther Mckelvie
Electoral Commission
13 April 2010
Dear Mr Watson
Thank you for your email to the Electoral Commission regarding your FOI 30
10 request.
The Commission sent a response on 10 March 2010. The original response is
below.
Yours sincerely
Esther Mckelvie
Business Assistant
The Electoral Commission
Trevelyan House
Great Peter Street
London SW1P 2HW
Tel: 020 7271 0627
Fax: 020 7271 0505
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From: Bola Ojoye On Behalf Of Michelanne Wilson
Sent: 10 March 2010 12:02
To: '[email address]'
Subject: FOI response 30 10
Dear Mr Watson,
Our Ref: FOI 30 10
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOI Act), dated 5 March 2010.
The Commission aims to respond to requests for information promptly and
has done so within the statutory timeframe of twenty working days.
Please see your request in bold below followed by our response.
Copies of the Statement of Persons Nominated supplied to you by the
Returning Officer of Test Valley Borough Council in the County of
Hampshire in accordance with section 14(5)(a) in Schedule 1 of the
Representation of the People Act 1983 (as amended 2000) in respect of the
United Kingdom Parliamentary Elections held on 7th June 2001and 5th May
2005.
The Commission does not hold information relevant to your request.
We suggest that you refer your request to the Acting Returning Officer at
Test Valley, their contact details are:
The Acting Returning Officer
Beech Hurst
Weyhill Road
Andover
Hants
SP10 3AJ
Tel 01264 - 368000
Minicom 01264 368052
Email: [5][email address]
I trust that this information satisfies your request. If you are not
satisfied with this response, please note that the Commission operates a
review procedure, details of which can be found on the Commission website
at:
[6]http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/ab....
Please also note that if you have exhausted all internal Commission review
procedures and you are still not satisfied you have the right to appeal to
the Information Commissioner. Details of this procedure can be found on
the ICO website: [7]http://www.ico.gov.uk.
Yours sincerely,
Bolanle
Bolanle Ojoye
Implementation Officer
The Electoral Commission
Trevelyan House
Great Peter Street
London SW1P 2HW
Tel: 020 7271 0668
Fax: 020 7271 0505
Textphone: 18001 020 7271 0505
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From: David Watson
13 April 2010
Dear Ms. McKelvie,
The response you quote was to a different FOI request altogether,
one submitted on 5th March 2010.
This overdue one was submitted on 10th March 2010. Please respond
to this request. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
David Watson
From: Esther Mckelvie
Electoral Commission
13 April 2010
Dear Mr Watson
Would it be possible for you to send me your original request submitted on 10 March 2010? Did you receive an acknowledgement of this request from the Commission?
Yours sincerely
Esther Mckelvie
Business Assistant
The Electoral Commission
Trevelyan House
Great Peter Street
London SW1P 2HW
Tel: 020 7271 0627
Fax: 020 7271 0505
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From: David Watson
13 April 2010
Dear Ms. Mckelvie,
Here is a web link to the request of 10th March 2010 as emitted by
whatdotheyknow.com:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/st...
There you will see the text of the original request is as follows:
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David Watson
10 March 2010
Dear Electoral Commission,
Please provide the following information:
The number of constituencies for which the returning officer did
not supply you with a copy of the Statement of Persons Nominated as
required by section 14(5)(a) in Schedule 1 of the Representation of
the People Act 1983 (as amended 2000) in respect of the United
Kingdom Parliamentary Elections held on 5th May 2005.
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
David Watson
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No acknowledgement was received.
Please respond to this request. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
David Watson
From: Esther Mckelvie
Electoral Commission
13 April 2010
Dear David Watson
Our Ref: FOI 40/10
I have thoroughly searched our records and I cannot find your FOI request
dated 10 March 2010. It is our procedure to acknowledge all FOI requests
and to provide a response promptly. I apologise for any incontinence
caused. It would be helpful to me if you could provide information of the
email address you sent the original request to.
I am writing to acknowledge your request under the Freedom of Information
Act dated 10 March 2010, which the Commission will treat as received on 13
April 2010. In your email you have requested a response to the following
question:
Please provide the following information:
The number of constituencies for which the returning officer did not
supply you with a copy of the Statement of Persons Nominated as required
by section 14(5)(a) in Schedule 1 of the Representation of the People Act
1983 (as amended 2000) in respect of the United Kingdom Parliamentary
Elections held on 5th May 2005.
The Commission aims to respond to requests for information promptly and
within the statutory timeframe of twenty working days.
You may expect to receive a reply sent from the Commission by 12 May 2010.
Yours sincerely
Esther Mckelvie
On behalf of Michelanne Calhoun Wilson
Legal Officer
Tel: 020 7271 0625
Fax: 020 7271 0505
From: David Watson
26 April 2010
Dear Ms. Mckelvie,
whatdotheyknow.com have informed me that the (quote) "10th March
request to the electoral commission was sent to "MWilson at
electoralcommission dot org dot uk" we recieved a response from the
electoral commission's email server saying the message had been
"received OK".
(The e-mail address above has been edited so as not to be removed
from this message by whatdotheyknow's filters. The spaces should be
removed and the words at and dot replaced by @ and . respectively).
Yours sincerely,
David Watson
From: David Watson
14 May 2010
Dear Ms. Mckelvie,
Your response to this request is now overdue beyond even the
delayed submission date which you assigned to it. Is there some
problem ?
Yours sincerely,
David Watson
From: Nassime Chida
Electoral Commission
14 May 2010
Dear David Watson,
I apologise for the delay in responding to your request. The Commission is currently working on a response and should be able to contact you again shortly.
I am sorry for any associated inconvenience.
Regards,
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From: Michelanne Wilson
Electoral Commission
14 May 2010
Dear Mr Watson,
Our Ref: FOI 40/10
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 dated
13 April 2010. The Commission aims to respond to requests for information
promptly. We apologise that in this case it has taken longer than 20
working days. Your request is in bold below followed by our response.
You have requested:
The number of constituencies for which the returning officer did not
supply you with a copy of the Statement of Persons Nominated as required
by section 14(5)(a) in Schedule 1 of the Representation of the People Act
1983 (as amended 2000) in respect of the United Kingdom Parliamentary
Elections held on 5th May 2005.
The Commission does not hold this information. We apologise for the delay
in responding to you on this request but we wanted to ensure that we
thoroughly reviewed our files for this information. While it is a
requirement under section 14(5)(a) of PPERA, there is no requirement under
PPERA for the Commission to retain or monitor these statements.
I trust that this information satisfies your request. If you are not
satisfied with this response, please note that the Commission operates a
review procedure, details of which can be found on the Commission website
at:
[1]http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/ab....
Please also note that if you have exhausted all internal Commission review
procedures and you are still not satisfied you have the right to appeal to
the Information Commissioner. Details of this procedure can be found on
the ICO website: [2]http://www.ico.gov.uk
Yours sincerely
Michelanne Calhoun Wilson
Legal Advisor
The Electoral Commission
Trevelyan House
Great Peter Street
London SW1P 2HW
Tel: 020 7271 0625
Fax: 020 7271 00505
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PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE
This message is confidential and intended only for the person to whom it
is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information. If
you are not the intended recipient you must not read, copy, distribute,
discuss or take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this
information in error, please destroy it and inform me as soon as possible.
Thank you.
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From: David Watson
25 May 2010
Dear Ms Wilson,
Your response to this request is long overdue. According to law you
should have responded within twenty working days of submission.
The e-mail server at whatdotheyknow.com used for the request
received an acknowledgement from your e-mail server on 10th March
2010.
Upon subsequent enquiry after the expiration of the legal deadline
for a response, it was claimed that the e-mail had not been
received and that a submission date of 13th April would be assigned
to the request.
The legal deadline for even this delayed submission date has long
since passed and you have not provided any substantive response
since a follow-up request was sent over ten days ago.
Please provide a meaningful indication of how much longer you
require to provide the requested information.
Yours sincerely,
David Watson
From: Michelanne Wilson
Electoral Commission
25 May 2010
Dear Mr Watson
Thank you for your email of this morning. As you can see from the email
below, we did send you a response on 14 May 2010. It seems you did not
receive it. We apologise for the delay in sending that response.
Yours sincerely,
Michelanne Calhoun Wilson
Legal Advisor
The Electoral Commission
Trevelyan House
Great Peter Street
London SW1P 2HW
Tel: 020 7271 0625
Fax: 020 7271 00505
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PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE
This message is confidential and intended only for the person to whom it
is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information. If
you are not the intended recipient you must not read, copy, distribute,
discuss or take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this
information in error, please destroy it and inform me as soon as possible.
Thank you.
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From: David Watson
25 May 2010
Dear Ms Wilson,
My apologies. I had not read your response of 14th May thoroughly
enough.
Yours sincerely,
David Watson
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