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This person's 25 Freedom of Information requests
Ofcom's investigation of excessive connection charges levied by BT
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 7 February 2011.
Partially successful.
The lessons to be drawn from this and parallel enquiries appear to be as follows:
BT currently requires phone users to pay £124.99 for performing wh...
Extortionate charges by BT
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 7 February 2011.
Refused.
The lessons to be drawn from this and parallel enquiries appear to be as follows:
BT currently requires phone users to pay £124.99 for performing wh...
BT's connection charges
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 7 February 2011.
Information not held.
The lessons to be drawn from this and parallel enquiries appear to be as follows:
BT currently requires phone users to pay £124.99 for performing wh...
Failure of BT to fulfil assurances it gave Ofcom regarding connection charges
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 7 February 2011.
Successful.
The lessons to be drawn from this and parallel enquiries appear to be as follows:
BT currently requires phone users to pay £124.99 for performing wh...
Refunds by BT of inappropriate connection charges
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 7 February 2011.
Long overdue.
The lessons to be drawn from this and parallel enquiries appear to be as follows:
BT currently requires phone users to pay £124.99 for performing wh...
"Confidential" documents posted on the web by Ofcom
Successful.
by Office of Communications to Michael McCarthy on 20 July 2010.
Successful.
Dear Mr McCarthy
I apologise that you have not received a response to your query. In your email of 19 June 2010 you asked why you received correspond...
DVLA's phone system: unfit for purpose & needlessly expensive
Request to Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by F. Rustrated on 28 June 2010.
Partially successful.
Used this phone no successfully 10 minutes ago having been told continually by recorded message for the last 10 days "too busy - ring back". Was advis...
Forfeiture of honours
Refused.
Secrecy continues, owing to blanket exemptions from the FoI Act and, scandalously, the public are even prevented from knowing whether any discussion h...
"Domestic extremists": who are they?
Partially successful.
by The Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland to Michael McCarthy on 21 January 2010.
Partially successful.
Please look at NETCU website which contains a lot
of detailed information about domestic extremists. You should look there
first and then make any fur...
Break-up of the Bishopsgate climate camp
Request to City of London Police by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Philip Chillag on 15 December 2009.
Partially successful.
Despite your request for an internal review, it's not clear that one was ever carried out. Given the extreme delay in this request I would push for th...
“Kettling”
Request to City of London Police by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 15 December 2009.
Information not held.
Clearly the City of London Police have failed to supply any document/s containing a full risk assessment, despite being specifically requested to do s...
Arrests on RBS premises during the G20 protests
Partially successful.
by City of London Police to Michael McCarthy on 4 December 2009.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr McCarthy
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REF: COL/09/193
I write in connection with your request for information dated 20 April
2009 in which...
Unidentifiable police officers
Partially successful.
by City of London Police to Michael McCarthy on 3 December 2009.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr McCarthy
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REF: COL/09/192
I write in connection with your request for information dated 17 April
2009 in which...
Agent provocateurs at the G20 demonstration
Partially successful.
by City of London Police to Michael McCarthy on 25 September 2009.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr McCarthy
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REF: COL/09/187
I write in connection with your request for information dated 16 April
2009 in whic...
Street Theatre at the Royal Bank of Scotland
Request to City of London Police by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 25 August 2009.
Information not held.
It's possible that the City of London police are woefully inept at record-keeping (which would be surprising in view of complaints about the amount of...
Membership of the Senior Salaries Review Body
Request to Office of Manpower Economics by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 19 June 2009.
Partially successful.
It's pretty clear, even though some of the information requested was not supplied, that the assessment of senior salaries is safely in the hands of th...
Unsolicited payments to HMRC by MPs
Internal review request
sent to HM Revenue and Customs by Michael McCarthy on 16 June 2009.
Awaiting internal review.
I wish to request an internal review of your response to my FoI request. Please pass this request to the HMRC FOI Team, Room 4/52, 100 Parliament St...
Removing disgraced peers Lord Taylor of Blackburn and Lord Truscott from the House of Lords
Successful.
by Cabinet Office to Michael McCarthy on 15 June 2009.
Successful.
Herewith my response to your FOI request of 15 May.
Regards
Marion Moore
Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent
sen...
A complaint about the Cabinet Office's refusal to divulge the requested information has been made to the Information Commissioner.
Politically sensitive FoI requests
Information not held.
by Cabinet Office to Michael McCarthy on 19 March 2009.
Information not held.
Dear Mr McCarthy,
Thank you for your email. The Cabinet Office holds no information within
the scope of your request. Any information held by other G...
Director-General's visit to Israel
Partially successful.
by British Broadcasting Corporation to Michael McCarthy on 25 February 2009.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr McCarthy
I refer to your emails of today and yesterday about your request,
reference RFI20090117. I apologise that the original response se...
Refusal to broadcast Gaza humanitarian appeal
Refused.
by British Broadcasting Corporation to Michael McCarthy on 20 February 2009.
Refused.
Dear Mr McCarthy,
Please find attached the BBC's response to your Freedom of Information Act
request regarding the DEC Gaza Appeal.
<<RFI20090125...
Indicator boards at Acton Town
Partially successful.
by Transport for London to Michael McCarthy on 13 February 2009.
Partially successful.
Our ref: 1002722095
Date: 11.02.2009
Dear Mr McCarthy
Thank you for your email in which you made a request under the Freedom of
Information re...
Land in SE England made accessible owing to CROW
Information not held.
What these responses demonstrate is that Natural England can’t distinguish between land made accessible by the Countryside & Rights of Way Act (CROW),...
Results of CROW
Information not held.
by Natural England to Michael McCarthy on 16 December 2008.
Information not held.
Dear Mr McCarthy,
Please find attached our letter of response to your two Access to
Information requests received on 18 December 2008. Also attac...
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Ofcom's investigation of excessive connection charges levied by BT
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 7 February 2011.
Partially successful.
The lessons to be drawn from this and parallel enquiries appear to be as follows:
BT currently requires phone users to pay £124.99 for performing wh...
Extortionate charges by BT
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 7 February 2011.
Refused.
The lessons to be drawn from this and parallel enquiries appear to be as follows:
BT currently requires phone users to pay £124.99 for performing wh...
BT's connection charges
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 7 February 2011.
Information not held.
The lessons to be drawn from this and parallel enquiries appear to be as follows:
BT currently requires phone users to pay £124.99 for performing wh...
Failure of BT to fulfil assurances it gave Ofcom regarding connection charges
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 7 February 2011.
Successful.
The lessons to be drawn from this and parallel enquiries appear to be as follows:
BT currently requires phone users to pay £124.99 for performing wh...
Refunds by BT of inappropriate connection charges
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 7 February 2011.
Long overdue.
The lessons to be drawn from this and parallel enquiries appear to be as follows:
BT currently requires phone users to pay £124.99 for performing wh...
Forfeiture of honours
Refused.
Secrecy continues, owing to blanket exemptions from the FoI Act and, scandalously, the public are even prevented from knowing whether any discussion h...
“Kettling”
Request to City of London Police by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 15 December 2009.
Information not held.
Clearly the City of London Police have failed to supply any document/s containing a full risk assessment, despite being specifically requested to do s...
BT's connection charges
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 12 December 2009.
Information not held.
I made this second response, dated 11 December 2009, to Ofcom after being informed by WhatDoTheyKnow (presumably at Ofcom's prompting) that I would on...
Street Theatre at the Royal Bank of Scotland
Request to City of London Police by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 25 August 2009.
Information not held.
It's possible that the City of London police are woefully inept at record-keeping (which would be surprising in view of complaints about the amount of...
Membership of the Senior Salaries Review Body
Request to Office of Manpower Economics by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 19 June 2009.
Partially successful.
It's pretty clear, even though some of the information requested was not supplied, that the assessment of senior salaries is safely in the hands of th...
A complaint about the Cabinet Office's refusal to divulge the requested information has been made to the Information Commissioner.
contact point to register illegal number plates
Request to Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency by richard czaplinski. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 9 February 2009.
Successful.
Thanks Richard for raising this issue. I've often thought that accident victims might be very puzzled to decode number plates with inverted, reversed...
Extortionate charges by BT
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 6 February 2009.
Refused.
It's absurd that the Freedom of Information Act should exempt Ofcom not merely from disclosing what the actual cost to a monopoly supplier of a partic...
Extortionate charges by BT
Request to Office of Communications by Michael McCarthy. Annotated by Michael McCarthy on 19 December 2008.
Refused.
When I moved into my current flat I found that its phone line had previously been made over to a non-BT phone company. I had an ongoing contract with...
Land in SE England made accessible owing to CROW
Information not held.
What these responses demonstrate is that Natural England can’t distinguish between land made accessible by the Countryside & Rights of Way Act (CROW),...
