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

Dear Bromley 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

Dear Coulston, Jackie,

I note that the 20 working day deadline has passed without any
response being provided to my FOI Request.

This is very disappointing.

The Request was a straight forward one, and I see no reason why the
council could not provider its response within the statutory limit
of 20wd.

Please give an indication of a date by when the council expects to
provide its reply - as otherwise a reference to the ICO will become
necessary.

Yours sincerely,

Marlon Campbell

Dear Coulston, Jackie,

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately you have omitted some of the information requested.

There is no column for date of acknowledgement - with the relevant
entries provided.

There is no column for date of reply - with the relevant entries
provided.

In two cases you show a section in a column headed "Rejected" -
this presumably means reason for rejection, albeit technically
refusal

However, there is no column for date of reply - with the relevant
entries provided, confirming whether the request was met in full or
in part, or refused.

Could you please add this data to the spreadsheet?

I infer that there were two cases where an Internal Review was
requested, and that no case involved the ICO - Please confirm.

Yours sincerely,

Marlon Campbell

Dear Pensions2,

It appears that you have muddled my FOI with another.

As you can see from the webpage below, my FOI was completed, and
then this one about Pensions arrived.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tr...

Yours sincerely,

Marlon Campbell