Treatment of Freedom of Information Requests - Subjects - Outcomes - Time to Respond

Marlon Campbell made this Freedom of Information request to Waltham Forest Borough Council

The request was successful.

From: Marlon Campbell

19 January 2010

Dear Waltham Forest Borough Council,

For the 100 most recent FOI requests which the council considers
closed, be that because the request was rejected, met, or declared
"not held", please provide the following information:

(1) The date the request was received by the council.

(2) The summary subject of the request - in less than 20 words

(3) The date the request was acknowledged.

(4) The date the initial final response was given

(5) The status of this response, ie met, not held, rejected

(6) Whether an Internal Review was requested, and if so the date on
which this was completed and the outcome status

(7) Whether the FOI Request to the council's knowledge was referred
to the ICO.

(8) Whether the ICO issued any guidance or instruction to the
council following this referral.

(9) The final outcome after the ICO referral.

It is understood that a case may be referred to the ICO after the
council regards it a closed, and so this list request may not be
final and definitive, but at any given time, a FOI Request must be
either open or closed as far as the council, is considered.

This FOI Request is asking about the situation when it is
processed, and a snapshot should be taken, with the date of this
recorded in the reply.

As most of this information must already be held electronically for
administrative reasons by the council, it should not be onerous to
provide it.

Please provide this electronically, preferably in an XLS
spreadsheet.

Yours faithfully,

Marlon Campbell

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From: Marlon Campbell

26 January 2010

Dear Waltham Forest Borough Council,

I sent this FOI Request to you a week ago.

I am surprised that no acknowledgement has yet been received.

Could you kindly confirm that this request is in hand?

Yours faithfully,

Marlon Campbell

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From: Information Officer
Waltham Forest Borough Council

27 January 2010

Dear Mr. Campbell,

Thank you for your information request, which the Council received on January 19, 2010.

We will respond to your request as soon as we can, but in any event, within 20 working days following the day of receipt of your request. You can therefore expect a reply by February 16, 2010.

Please note that the information you have requested may be subject to a fee or subject to an exemption. Should this occur, you will be notified accordingly when we write to you next.

Yours sincerely,

Temi Akindele
Assistant Corporate Information Officer
Public Law Team
Governance and Law
London Borough of Waltham Forest
020 8496 4710/4334

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From: Information Officer
Waltham Forest Borough Council

2 February 2010

Dear Mr Campbell,

I am writing to you in relation to your request for information under
the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘FOIA’) which we received on 19
January 2010.

Part of your request was for ‘the summary subject of your request -
in less than 20 words’. My view is that producing a summary of the
requests amounts to the creation of new information. We are not bound to
do this under FOIA.

I do appreciate that we are under an obligation to provide ‘advice
and assistance’ under section 16 of FOIA and I therefore propose to
disclose details of the wording of individual requests. You are
obviously free to draft a summary of the wording of individual requests
if you wish.

I will assume that this is approach is acceptable to you unless I hear
otherwise.

Yours sincerely,
Jake Stafford

Jake Stafford
Public Law Team
Governance & Law
London Borough of Waltham Forest
Room 1
Town Hall
Forest Road
London E17 4JF

tel: 020 8496 4710
fax: 020 8523 4967

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this e-mail is
intended only for the individual, persons or entity to whom it is
addressed.
It may contain privileged and confidential information and, if you are
not the intended recipient, you must not read, copy or distribute it,
nor take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this
e-mail in error, please inform the sender as soon as possible and delete
the e-mail from your computer.

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From: Information Officer
Waltham Forest Borough Council

16 February 2010

Attachment Campbell Mr Marlon 16.02.10.doc
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Attachment Attachment 1.xls
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Please see attached.

Information Officer
Public Law Team
Governance and Law
London Borough of Waltham Forest
020 8496 4710/4334

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