Make and explore Freedom of Information requestsFollow this request
There are 2 people following this request
Act on what you've learnt
Similar requests
Internal coding of PCs with internet access at Cotton House, Glasgow
To HM Revenue and Customs by Ms Anne Thrope 17 October 2008
Classification of websites by Rother District Council
To Rother District Council by Ms Anne Thrope 9 July 2008
Value of goods seized from members of the public
To Strathclyde Police by Ms Anne Thrope 3 July 2008
Head of Child Benefits
To HM Revenue and Customs by Nick Leaton 12 November 2010
Staff visiting BNP website
To Lothian NHS Board by Michael Traill 29 October 2009
Child Safety on the Internet
To Southampton City Council by Mrs Fitzsimons 22 October 2009
Recording of time spent on duties
To Poole Borough Council by Ms Anne Thrope 19 June 2009
Child and Working Tax Credits Algorithm
To HM Revenue and Customs by Mark Lee 13 July 2009
Travel costs
To HM Revenue and Customs by Brian Farnet 1 April 2011
Websites accessed from staff terminals at Cotton House, Glasgow
Ms Anne Thrope made this Freedom of Information request to HM Revenue and Customs
The request was refused by HM Revenue and Customs.
From: Ms Anne Thrope
1 July 2008
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please provide me with the list of web site URLs which have been
accessed from staff terminals in Cotton House, Glasgow.
Where the information exists, this should also show which internal
department accessed the URL, at what time, and on which date.
Please supply this information in electronic format, using either
plain text, or a free and open source format such as .odt, and not
in a proprietary, non-free format such as pdf or .doc
Yours faithfully,
Anne Thrope
From: Neate, Melvyn (Internal Audit DPO)
HM Revenue and Customs
21 July 2008
Dear Ms Thrope
Please see my response to your request (attached).
Regards
Melvyn Neate
<<MsAnneThrope Response.doc>>
The information in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may
be subject to legal professional privilege. Unless you are the intended
recipient or his/her representative you are not authorised to, and must
not, read, copy, distribute, use or retain this message or any part of it.
If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender
immediately.
HM Revenue & Customs computer systems will be monitored and communications
carried on them recorded, to secure the effective operation of the system
and for lawful purposes.
The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs are not liable for any
personal views of the sender.
This e-mail may have been intercepted and its information altered.
show quoted sections
Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or
recorded for legal purposes.
From: Ms Anne Thrope
25 July 2008
Dear Neate, Melvyn (Internal Audit DPO),
I note your refusal to release the information requested from HMRC,
namely the URLs of websites which have been accessed from staff
terminals at Cotton House.
May I take this opportunity to enquire ;
Have you calculated the costs based upon physically having someone
walk from terminal to terminal and writing the URLs down on a piece
of paper?
Yours sincerely,
Anne Thrope
From: Neate, Melvyn (Internal Audit DPO)
HM Revenue and Customs
13 August 2008
Dear Ms Thrope
Please see my response to your supplementary request (attached).
Regards
Melvyn Neate
<<Second reply to Ms AnneThrope.doc>>
The information in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may
be subject to legal professional privilege. Unless you are the intended
recipient or his/her representative you are not authorised to, and must
not, read, copy, distribute, use or retain this message or any part of it.
If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender
immediately.
HM Revenue & Customs computer systems will be monitored and communications
carried on them recorded, to secure the effective operation of the system
and for lawful purposes.
The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs are not liable for any
personal views of the sender.
This e-mail may have been intercepted and its information altered.
show quoted sections
Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or
recorded for legal purposes.
Things to do with this request
- Add an annotation (to help the requester or others)
- Download a zip file of all correspondence
Christopher left an annotation (17 October 2008)
If that's the case, then there should be one (or a few) centrally-held log files that would be trivial for their admin staff to get access to.
That would at least nullify the "it costs too much to collect this info" claim, though I imagine there may be privacy or other concerns about giving out the raw data as-is.
Link to this