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Alistair P Sloan
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This person's 47 Freedom of Information requests
DPA Breaches - NHS Bodies in Scotland
Partially successful.
by Information Commissioner’s Office to Alistair P Sloan on 13 February 2012.
Partially successful.
13th February 2012
Case Reference Number IRQ0432133
Dear Mr Sloan
I am writing further to our email dated 25 January 2012 in which we
acknowled...
Complaints
Awaiting response.
by Information Commissioner’s Office to Alistair P Sloan on 25 January 2012.
Awaiting response.
25th January 2012
Case Reference Number IRQ0432134
Dear Mr Sloan
Thank you for your email of today's date in which you have made a request
fo...
Identity Checking
Request to Bristol City Council by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 13 January 2012.
Partially successful.
I remain dissatisfied with Bristol City Council's response to the request following thier internal review. I have written to the ICO informing them o...
October and November 2011
Successful.
by Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal (Scotland) to Alistair P Sloan on 9 January 2012.
Successful.
Dear Mr Sloan
Thank you for your e-mail dated 8 December. I now attach my response.
Mrs C McDivitt
Disclosure Section
Criminal Justice & Disclosure...
Compliance
Request to Cumbria County Council by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 21 December 2011.
Partially successful.
This request has been referred to the ICO.
Case Reference Number: FS50428795
Guidance - Scotland
Information not held.
The ICO's reference number for the complaint is FS50425925
Balloch (Cumbernauld)
Partially successful.
by Strathclyde Police to Alistair P Sloan on 25 November 2011.
Partially successful.
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Good Afternoon
Please see the atached information. Please accept my apologies for the
delay.
Regards
Lorna Grieve
Freedo...
Balloch (Cumbernauld)
Information not held.
by North Lanarkshire Council to Alistair P Sloan on 23 November 2011.
Information not held.
Dear Mr Sloan
Request for Information
I refer again to your e-mails of 24 and 26 October 2011 seeking
information in relation to anti soc...
August and September 2011
Successful.
by Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal (Scotland) to Alistair P Sloan on 23 November 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mr Sloan
Thank you for your e-mail of 23 October in which you requested information which had been provided in terms of the Freedom of Informati...
Secondary Interests
Successful.
by Scottish Prison Service to Alistair P Sloan on 16 November 2011.
Successful.
From: Birrell Martin
Sent: 16 November 2011 14:49
To: '[FOI #90097 email]'
Subject: FOI requests
Mr Sloan
See attached FOI resp...
ICVS
Successful.
by Central Scotland Joint Police Board to Alistair P Sloan on 15 November 2011.
Successful.
Good morning - thank you for clarifying your request of 5 November.
I now attach the Visit Record forms for Stirling for the period October
201...
Big Society
Information not held.
by Cabinet Office to Alistair P Sloan on 14 November 2011.
Information not held.
Please find a response to this FOI attached
Kind regards
Office for Civil Society
Cabinet Office Reference: FOI315564 Alistair P Sloan...
Planning decisions
Information not held.
by Basildon District Council to Alistair P Sloan on 9 November 2011.
Information not held.
Dear Mr Sloan
Please find attached response to your recent request made for information.
Yours Sincerely
Peter Samuels
Service Advice Officer...
Custody Visits
Information not held.
by Strathclyde Joint Police Board to Alistair P Sloan on 4 November 2011.
Information not held.
Dear Mr Sloan,
Thank you for your interest in Strathclyde Police Authority. Please find
attached a response to your information request as per...
Dear Mr Sloan
Please see attached response to your FoI request
Kind regards
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Central Freedom of Information A Annex Team e...
FOI, EIR and DPA Compliance
Partially successful.
by Newcastle College to Alistair P Sloan on 28 October 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Sloan
Further to my response yesterday to your request for information:
1. Correction of an error
I must apologise to you for an error in t...
June and July 2011
Partially successful.
by Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal (Scotland) to Alistair P Sloan on 21 October 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Sloan
I refer to your e-mail requesting a review of the decision taken in the above request. I now attach a reply.
Yours sincerely
FOI Enq...
Freedom of Information Correspondence
Refused.
by Cabinet Office to Alistair P Sloan on 18 October 2011.
Refused.
Dear Mr Sloan
I attach a reply to your FOI request.
I am sorry for the delay in responding to your request.
Regards,
Jonathan Keeling
Openness Ad...
August Riots
Successful.
by Crown Prosecution Service to Alistair P Sloan on 18 October 2011.
Successful.
Please find attached our response.
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This e-mail is private and i...
Stirling Station (26 August 2011)
Partially successful.
by British Transport Police to Alistair P Sloan on 29 September 2011.
Partially successful.
Our Ref. 725/11
Dear Mr Sloan
Freedom of Information: Right to know request
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of...
Stirling Station (26 August 2011)
Partially successful.
by Central Scotland Police to Alistair P Sloan on 27 September 2011.
Partially successful.
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Dear Mr Sloan,
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Thank you for your request for information received on Monday,...
Complaints
Refused.
by British Broadcasting Corporation to Alistair P Sloan on 23 September 2011.
Refused.
Dear Mr Sloan,
Following your clarification that we had interpreted your request
(reference RFI20111005) too narrowly and you were not only interes...
Croy Station Car Park Extension
Refused.
by North Lanarkshire Council to Alistair P Sloan on 15 September 2011.
Refused.
Dear Mr Sloan
I refer again to your e-mail seeking all information relative to the Croy station car park extension under the terms of the Environment...
Detentions and Arrests
Successful.
by Grampian Police to Alistair P Sloan on 13 September 2011.
Successful.
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Dear Mr Sloan
Thanks for your email. I can confirm that i supplied all of the information requested in your clarified requ...
Section 41(1)(a) Police (Scotland) Act - FK8
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by Central Scotland Police to Alistair P Sloan on 9 September 2011.
Successful.
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Dear Mr Sloan,
Many thanks for your response and am pleased you are happy with the
information provided.
Kind regards...
This person's 30 annotations
Identity Checking
Request to Bristol City Council by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 13 January 2012.
Partially successful.
I remain dissatisfied with Bristol City Council's response to the request following thier internal review. I have written to the ICO informing them o...
Identity Checking
Request to Bristol City Council by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 11 January 2012.
Partially successful.
Today is the "revised deadline" which the Council said they would respond by. It's now been more than 30 working days since the request for review wa...
Information held on myself.
Request to Department for Work and Pensions by David. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 29 December 2011.
Awaiting classification.
David,
Information about you is exempt from disclosure under Section 40(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. There is a separate regime for m...
CCTV in Tesco stores
Successful.
No doubt Tesco will probably provide a response in due course. However, they are not obliged to respond to requests for information unless the inform...
How to bring a case against a courts who commits corruption
Request to Supreme Court of the United Kingdom by afham. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 28 December 2011.
Awaiting classification.
The authority is still legally obliged to respond to you and my pointing out to you that the request is not technically valid will not affect that. I...
How to bring a case against a courts who commits corruption
Request to Supreme Court of the United Kingdom by afham. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 28 December 2011.
Awaiting classification.
One of the purposes of the annotation system is for other users to provide advice, assistance and guidance to their fellow users of the site. There i...
How to bring a case against a courts who commits corruption
Request to Supreme Court of the United Kingdom by afham. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 27 December 2011.
Awaiting classification.
Your request is technically invalid and the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom would not be obliged to respond to your request. Section 8(1)(b) of th...
Compliance
Request to Cumbria County Council by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 21 December 2011.
Partially successful.
This request has been referred to the ICO.
Case Reference Number: FS50428795
Guidance - Scotland
Information not held.
The ICO's reference number for the complaint is FS50425925
Guidance - Scotland
Information not held.
I have decided to refer this request to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Selling of Land gifted for Education to. Supermarket
Request to Prime Minister’s Office by Miss marple. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 25 October 2011.
Partially successful.
As a side note it might be worthwhile drawing attention to the Coe of Practice issued by the Secretary of State. The ICO guidance on refusing a reque...
City Garden Project
Partially successful.
I would be interested to know if the City Council responded as per the Decision Notice issued by the Scottish Information Commissioner in August (http...
June and July 2011
Request to Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal (Scotland) by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 28 September 2011.
Partially successful.
I decided that the Act specifically excluded me from applying to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision and confirmed this with his offi...
June and July 2011
Request to Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal (Scotland) by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 28 September 2011.
Partially successful.
I am slightly confused about the exemption that has been applied here given that the information was released under the Freeom of Information (Scotlan...
2010 callouts
Request to Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service by Luke Ilott. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 20 September 2011.
Successful.
Could the following be an attempt to circumvent the FOI Act?
"Any future correspondence you may have with HFRS in relation to this matter should be...
Policy on Service User Recording of Meetings with the LA
Request to Richmond upon Thames Borough Council by Advocacy Fund. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 15 September 2011.
Refused.
If one continues reading the ICO gudiance from the section they quoted it immediatley says the following:
"In the case of a company, it is not neces...
Section 41(1)(a) Police (Scotland) Act - FK8
Request to Central Scotland Police by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 9 September 2011.
Successful.
Checking the list again there wasn't even a bank holiday in Scotland on that date. I was origionally looking at a list of Bank Holidays accross the w...
June and July 2011
Request to Fife Constabulary by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 8 September 2011.
Successful.
Marked as all information received because while Section 25 was used, the disclosure log was only updated to coincide with this request - nothing had...
Stirling Station (26 August 2011)
Request to British Transport Police by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 31 August 2011.
Partially successful.
Thanks Ganesh. My concern with the acknowledgment was that it stated the request was recieved on the 30th (Tuesday) as that has legal implications fo...
Stirling Station (26 August 2011)
Request to British Transport Police by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 31 August 2011.
Partially successful.
The following was tweeted to me on Twitter by the BTP today:
"Hi, we received your email at 00:10am on Sat 27th 2011. Tuesday 30th would be 1st work...
Human rights I
Request to Lothian and Borders Police by Graeme MacLean. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 29 August 2011.
Awaiting classification.
The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 provides in Section 13 that the following information must be provided:
(a) Name
(b) Address
(c) Date o...
The dates that statutes and statutory instruments came into force are publically available from various sources. The Regulations you mention in your...
Police Station Duty Scheme
Request to Scottish Legal Aid Board by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 22 August 2011.
Refused.
Section 30 justifications are an absolute joke. However, the s.26 exemption can't be argued against so no request for review is going to be submitted...
Queen on the application. How many times has the Home Office failed to act contrary to English law S.24A(1)(a)(b)
Awaiting internal review.
That's the standard "automated message" sent by the UKBA to all persons who contact them and will not have been the actual UKBA response to your FOI r...
Corroboration - What is required to commence a trial?
Request to Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland by Sophie Rises (Account suspended). Annotated by Alistair P Sloan on 30 July 2011.
Information not held.
Rape is defined in Section 1 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 which can be found here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/9/section/1...
