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This person's 40 Freedom of Information requests
Number of bins removed
Partially successful.
by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to Heather Brooke on 23 December 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Heather,
Thank you for your request for information received 23^rd November 2011.
Please find below our response to your request....
Identity Verification System for FOI Requests
Successful.
by Bristol City Council to Heather Brooke on 24 November 2011.
Successful.
Dear Ms Brooke,
Thank you for your request for information, a copy of which is enclosed
below. I apologise for the delay in our response.
We ca...
Register of Gifts and Hospitality
Refused.
by Transport for London to Heather Brooke on 17 December 2010.
Refused.
Our Ref: 1007820393/GJ
Date: 17.12.2010
Dear Ms Brooke
Thank you for your e-mail received by Transport for Londo...
Legal actions threatened by ODA legal team
Request to Olympic Delivery Authority by Heather Brooke. Annotated by Julian cheyne on 11 December 2010.
Partially successful.
How bizarre! No reply seems to have been received to this request. The story was covered on the Games Monitor website in August 2009 http://www.gamesm...
Private Health Insurance for DoH employees
Successful.
by Department of Health to Heather Brooke on 4 November 2010.
Successful.
Email Content stored in attached file 'Long_Email_Body_04_11_2010.html'.
Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and...
Costs of public relations and freedom of information
Waiting clarification.
Hi Heather, I presume that the MOJ has of yet not provided you with a response?
Sean
Performance Bonuses
Awaiting response.
by Transport for London to Heather Brooke on 2 November 2010.
Long overdue.
Our Ref : 1007820124
Date : 02.11.2010
Ms H Brooke
[FOI #50809 email]
Dear Ms Brooke
Thank you for your request for information...
vehicle clamping policy and contracts
Request to Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea by Heather Brooke. Annotated by Norris on 26 April 2010.
Successful.
It's a real shame that Kensington & Chelsea uses NSL Services Ltd to enforce parking in the borough.
Take a look at http://nutsville.com and http:/...
costs of birmingham.gov.uk
Request to Birmingham City Council by Heather Brooke. Annotated by Francis Irving on 25 January 2010.
Partially successful.
Blog post about attribution of uses of this request in newspaper articles: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/12/19/why-it-pays-to-respond-to-your-c...
That last link corrected: <http://www.out-law.com/page-4294>
Costs of FOI and PR
Successful.
Eleanor Laing MP asked how many FOI officers the Department of Health has, and how much the department spends responding to FOI requests via a written...
Number of Lawyers vs Cartographers
Successful.
by Ordnance Survey to Heather Brooke on 16 November 2009.
Successful.
Dear Heather
FOI Response - Number of Lawyers vs Cartographers - Ref: 72406
Thank you for your email of 18^th October 2009 requesting the following...
press and PR costs
Successful.
I'm trying to figure out (apart from the obvious that these are lies) how the figures here square with those given by the MOD to the Phillis Review:...
Costs of FOI, PR
Request to Foreign and Commonwealth Office by Heather Brooke. Annotated by Heather Brooke on 15 November 2009.
Successful.
The FCO are being disingenuous by saying they can't possibly say how much PR is costing the department.
I found they have given a figure before - i...
Costs of press, pr and FOI
Long overdue.
The ICO have issued a Decision Notice regarding this request (ref FS50268235)
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/decisionnotices/2009/fs_5026823...
Costs of Press, PR and FOI
Successful.
The ICO have issued a Decision Notice (ref FS50271878) for this FOI request:
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/decisionnotices/2009/fs_50271878...
Costs related to Jane Clift vs Slough Borough Council
Partially successful.
by Slough Borough Council to Heather Brooke on 3 November 2009.
Partially successful.
Ms Brooke
There was nothing attached, the answers should have been below in red on the original email. I attach it again for your information.
Regar...
Costs of FOI, PR and press offices
Successful.
by Department for Work and Pensions to Heather Brooke on 13 October 2009.
Successful.
Dear Ms Brooke
Please see attached response to your FoI request.
Kind regards
Central FoI Team
Annex A
Annex A
Heather Brooke -
what do they...
Costs of FOI and PR
Request to Department of Energy and Climate Change by Heather Brooke. Annotated by Heather Brooke on 8 October 2009.
Successful.
What I've noticed from this series of requests is that the departments routinely:
- underestimate marketing/press office costs by excluding (often w...
Costs of FOI, PR and press offices
Successful.
by Department for Transport to Heather Brooke on 5 October 2009.
Successful.
Ms Brooke
Please find attached my seven page letter (pdf file) providing information
in response to your request for external communications info...
Costs of FOI and publicity
Successful.
by Scottish Government to Heather Brooke on 5 October 2009.
Successful.
Heather
Thank you for your request of July 28 seeking, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000: "the Department's staffing and funding for
publicit...
Registers of Gifts & Hospitality
Partially successful.
by Office of Communications to Heather Brooke on 18 September 2009.
Partially successful.
Dear Ms Brooke
Please find response attached.
Yours sincerely
Eleanor Berg
:: Eleanor Berg
Information Requests
Email: information...
Costs of PR, Press Office and FOI
Partially successful.
by Department for Culture, Media and Sport to Heather Brooke on 18 September 2009.
Partially successful.
Dear Ms Brooke
Your request for information - marketing, external communications and
press officers. - ref 122499
Following on from my previous e...
Costs of Press, PR and FOI
Partially successful.
by Department for Children, Schools and Families to Heather Brooke on 16 September 2009.
Partially successful.
Dear Ms Brooke,
Thank you for your email in response to my reply to your earlier enquiry.
I am sorry you were not satisfied with that reply and note...
Costs of PR and FOI
Successful.
Frustratingly, the information cited by the Parliament is correct for the Scottish version of the FOIA, even though it does not hold true for the Act...
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Identity Checking
Request to Bristol City Council by Alistair P Sloan. Annotated by Heather Brooke on 23 November 2011.
Partially successful.
This 'answer' has not in any substantive way answered the applicant's questions.
Anonymous requests for FOI
Successful.
I found this response interesting as it reveals the existence of some kind of identity verification system which is being used to monitor FOI requeste...
Book Antiqua Parliamentary
Refused.
I think you should appeal this. The objections put forward are not strong. The first, that a typeface is not recorded, is patently absurd. That it is...
Costs of public relations and freedom of information
Waiting clarification.
Hi Brian,
No I didn't 'clarify' as there was nothing to clarify and if they needed help interpreting my request they could have asked me in good time...
Council expenses
Partially successful.
The fact they refuse to name these public officials indicates to me an unwillingness to be forthright with the citizenry. What do they have to hide?
Why don't these people just attach the document? Surely they should know more than anyone how often council webpages change name. This link no longer...
Jane Clift - defamation
Successful.
Dear Mr Andrews,
I put in a similar FOIA request to Slough about this case. See:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/costs_related_to_jane_clift_v...
Common purpose
Request to Supreme Court of the United Kingdom by brian ovens. Annotated by Heather Brooke on 9 December 2009.
Successful.
Anyone who has done an FOI related to Common Purpose ought to have a read of this:
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/Channels/Communications/Article/97280...
Costs of FOI and PR
Successful.
Thanks for previous note from Speers.
So while the dept of health tells the public it has just 54 comms staff, it tells the Lords Select Committee i...
press and PR costs
Successful.
I'm trying to figure out (apart from the obvious that these are lies) how the figures here square with those given by the MOD to the Phillis Review:...
Costs of FOI, PR
Request to Foreign and Commonwealth Office by Heather Brooke. Annotated by Heather Brooke on 15 November 2009.
Successful.
The FCO are being disingenuous by saying they can't possibly say how much PR is costing the department.
I found they have given a figure before - i...
WhatDoTheyKnow complaints at FOILive
Successful.
This is an interesting correspondence and reveals the fundamental problem I see in the attitude of most public servants.
It's the idea that they b...
Costs of FOI and PR
Successful.
I have marked that I've received 'all' the information but I am highly dubious about the way the Dept of Health is doing its accounting on this matter...
Costs of FOI and PR
Request to Department of Energy and Climate Change by Heather Brooke. Annotated by Heather Brooke on 8 October 2009.
Successful.
What I've noticed from this series of requests is that the departments routinely:
- underestimate marketing/press office costs by excluding (often w...
vehicle clamping policy and contracts
Request to Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea by Heather Brooke. Annotated by Heather Brooke on 13 September 2009.
Successful.
The Daily Mail launched a campaign yesterday against vehicle clampers. See:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212881/Curb-cowboy-clampers-Mail...
Costs of PR, Press and FOI
Request to Department for Communities and Local Government by Heather Brooke. Annotated by Heather Brooke on 27 August 2009.
Successful.
Although the department says it aims to be as helpful as possible I find its refusal to provide page numbers to information in annual reports which ru...
CCTV Coverage and Information
Partially successful.
You could argue the refusal to release the location of the control room. This is not a state secret and the council's argument for making it so is bas...
Unoccupied residential Council properties in Birmingham
Partially successful.
It's great that the council supplied the spreadsheet of vacant property but they didn't answer the requester's question to provide vacancy times for t...
This information was scanned and redacted back in October 2008 according to the House of Commons own FOI request to me. So why is it that Sir Stuart B...
Overseas visitors to Westminster City Council CCTV
Partially successful.
The council has fudged. They state: 'We won't give out individual names of visitors as they have individual rights to privacy.'
But companies and or...
Fixed CCTV Camera Locations
Successful.
Why on earth have they locked this data into PDF and not given it in a usable spreadsheet format?
PA Consulting Group
Awaiting internal review.
It is the Information Commissioner's job to issue a formal enforcement notice in cases of non-compliance. Why doesn't he do so?
I have had a similar...
This refusal is rubbish. I've obtained all sorts of contracts including the IDENT1 police fingerprint database system contracted out to US company Nor...
Protester database
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by Lee Rowland. Annotated by Heather Brooke on 4 March 2009.
Information not held.
No surprise that the Met has failed to abide by the legal time limit. ALL my FOIs to the met have come back weeks, if not months late. Will the inform...
