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Michael Traill
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I still wholly support this site, but Im making most of my requests via email these days. Some journalists are picking up on my requests and taking them to print without mentioning me, this site or even that it was all thanks to FOI/SA legislation the information was made available.
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This person's 93 Freedom of Information requests
August 2011
Successful.
by Lothian and Borders Police to Michael Traill on 20 September 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mr Traill,
Thank you for your email which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Please find the information...
Lothian Buses
Refused.
That figure equals just under 50,000 journeys per day for card holders. Can that be right?
July 2011
Partially successful.
by Lothian and Borders Police to Michael Traill on 29 August 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Traill,
Thank you for your email which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Please find the information...
Royal Wedding, Edinburgh on 30 July 2011.
Successful.
by Lothian and Borders Police to Michael Traill on 29 August 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mr Traill
Request for Information - Royal Wedding, Edinburgh on 30 July 2011.
Thank you for your email which has been dealt with under the terms...
Dear Mr Traill,
Please find attached our response to your freedom of information request.
<<Traill FOI Response Ref. VTR2370.pdf>>
Kind regards,...
June 2011
Partially successful.
by Lothian and Borders Police to Michael Traill on 12 August 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Traill,
Thank you for your email which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Please find the information...
Fee's
Awaiting response.
by Sussex Coast College Hastings to Michael Traill on 11 August 2011.
Long overdue.
Dear Mr Traill,
Sincere apologies for the delay in responding to your email. The College's
policy is currently under review in line with ICO guidan...
Gifts & hospitality
Partially successful.
by Stevenson College Edinburgh to Michael Traill on 15 July 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Traill
Freedom of Information request re gifts and hospitality
I refer to your e-mail of 14 July 2011 requesting information about gifts and...
Dear Mr Traill,
Thank you for your email which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Please find the information...
Dear Mr Traill,
Thank you for your email which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Please find the information...
Dear Mr Traill,
Thank you for your email which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Please find the information...
Honours granted, Order of the British Empire (2000-2010)
Partially successful.
by Cabinet Office to Michael Traill on 21 March 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Traill,
Please find attached a reply to your FOI request about the Order of the
British Empire.
Yours sincerely,
Gary Rogers
Ca...
Dear Mr Traill,
Further to my e-mail of 31v January I now enclose a substantive reply to your FOI request.
Yours sincerely,
Gary Rogers
Cabinet Off...
School crossing patrols / lollypop people
Partially successful.
This was done so that I was able to challange their policy of not providing information via this site.
Eventually they were ordered by the informati...
Domain names
Internal review request
sent to Scottish Government by Michael Traill on 2 September 2010.
Awaiting internal review.
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Scottish Government'...
Old age bus travel - July 2010
Refused.
by Lothian Buses PLC to Michael Traill on 23 August 2010.
Refused.
Mr. Michael Traill
[1]mailto:[FOI #43499 email]
Dear Mr. Traill,
Freedom Of Information (Scotland) Act - Information Request
I refer to y...
Old age bus travel
Awaiting internal review.
Lothian Buses is owned in its entirety by the public purse. This is because it is wholly owned by the four Lothian councils. Any dividend paid to it...
Attached is NHS Lothian's response to your FOI Request.
If you require a signed copy or anything else please let me know.
Thanks
Richard
0131 465 56...
Fire Bikes
Partially successful.
by Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service to Michael Traill on 12 August 2010.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Traill,
Further to your request for information, please see the attached
correspondence.
Kind regards,
Jean Crimmins
Corporate...
CCTV
Awaiting internal review.
Some further info Lothian Buses CCTV taken from another FOISA request for information:
The situation with regard to the CCTV installed on our bus fl...
Accidents 2010
Awaiting internal review.
The Edinburgh Evening News article was also published in the Scotsman today aswell (sister publications)
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh/700-acci...
Payments to informers (Jan - June 2010)
Refused.
by Lothian and Borders Police to Michael Traill on 28 July 2010.
Refused.
Dear Mr Traill,
Thank you for your email which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. I am sorry it has taken some...
Complains 2010 (Jan - June)
Awaiting internal review.
by Lothian Buses PLC to Michael Traill on 27 July 2010.
Awaiting internal review.
Thank you for your email. Our Customer Services Department will attend to your comments and issue you with a full reply, if required. No reply will be...
Flight costs 2009
Follow up
sent to Lothian NHS Board by Michael Traill on 26 July 2010.
Information not held.
Thanks for that. I will not take offence at the repeated spelling error in each instance that you use my name in your response to my request for i...
Hotel costs 2009
Follow up
sent to Lothian NHS Board by Michael Traill on 26 July 2010.
Information not held.
Thanks for that.
I will not take offence at the repeated spelling error in each instance that you use my name in your response to my request for...
This person's 166 annotations
charging £75 for FOIA requests
Request to Sussex Coast College Hastings by Bhanu Patel. Annotated by Michael Traill on 11 August 2011.
Partially successful.
Thats some response.....poor.
July 2011
Request to Lothian and Borders Police by Michael Traill. Annotated by Michael Traill on 3 August 2011.
Partially successful.
Despite assurances from Rachel Watson, Head of the Force Information Unit that where its requested, all correspondence would be acknowledged.
A phon...
Royal Wedding, Edinburgh on 30 July 2011.
Request to Lothian and Borders Police by Michael Traill. Annotated by Michael Traill on 3 August 2011.
Successful.
Despite assurances from Rachel Watson, Head of the Force Information Unit that where its requested, all correspondence would be acknowledged.
A phon...
Sussex Coast College Hastings queries
Request to Sussex Coast College Hastings by Daniel Tubb. Annotated by Michael Traill on 10 July 2011.
Partially successful.
I've done a blog post about the stance taking by this body regarding charging: http://bit.ly/oZijT8
ore valley
Request to Sussex Coast College Hastings by Frederick Wright. Annotated by Michael Traill on 10 July 2011.
Successful.
A £75 fee regardless of how easy it is for them to get the info together etc; is really really shocking.
What would the england & wales info commiss...
Taser Usage
Refused.
Also, It has often occured to me that Sarah Hughes Jones may not be a suitably senior officer/civilian staff member to be conducting reviews.
She is...
Taser Usage
Refused.
Interesting response.
The force release staffing/officers number, but surely the same exemptions would apply going by their reasoning, but they choo...
P.A.C.E?
Long overdue.
This request isnt valid in accordance FOISA.
As it has no name!
abuse of Police station car parking
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by doug noth. Annotated by Michael Traill on 5 December 2010.
Successful.
This thread is actually only supposed to be for one request and I have categorised it on that basis, ragardless of the fact the Met have aggregated nu...
Flags
Partially successful.
"I do not see the problem in answering my first question, it is very
telling that you do not, and quite cowardly."
This is not covered by the Freed...
Response Times
Request to City of Edinburgh Council by Mary Thorburn. Annotated by Michael Traill on 30 November 2010.
Successful.
Looks like two FOISA requests for information are being sent to the same allocated email address!
Use of Agency Social Work Professionals
Request to Leicestershire County Council by Helen O'Regan. Annotated by Michael Traill on 22 November 2010.
Partially successful.
Interesting way to respond, not actually sending the person a response but uploading the information and sending the person a weblink to view it.
I would be taking the handling of this one to the Commissioners office if it was me.
It has not been handled correctly as required by the Act.
I w...
Policies - Under Development
Successful.
Interesring two responses to this request.
First response refuses to provide the information then a second response a month later decides to give hi...
Invoices
Successful.
I've sent Stirling Council a wee email:
'This is a normal business enquiry.
Whilst visiting the whatdotheyknow.com website I became aware of an in...
Invoices
Successful.
How pointless is this password system!
Is it just a way of forcing people to acknowledge receipt or something.
Alleged police abuse at Galashiels police station
Request to Lothian and Borders Police by Graeme MacLean. Annotated by Michael Traill on 8 November 2010.
Long overdue.
For reference:
Many public authorities have an auto responder set up so that when a request is received a response is automatically sent so that the...
School crossing patrols / lollypop people
Partially successful.
This was done so that I was able to challange their policy of not providing information via this site.
Eventually they were ordered by the informati...
Mis-fuelling of motor vehicles
Information not held.
Interesting response.
The email sent by the requestor clearly adddresses the email as dear security commission, yet there has been a letter seeking...
Old age bus travel
Awaiting internal review.
Lothian Buses is owned in its entirety by the public purse. This is because it is wholly owned by the four Lothian councils. Any dividend paid to it...
CCTV information request
Withdrawn by the requester.
Its been a few days since they requested to know her name, hopefully Ms Douglas will come back in time to send them her name in order to comply with F...
Request For Information on Compensation Claims
Waiting clarification.
Dont reply using the email address given in the letter, email them with your reply via this site so that the reply shows up on the website. Please.
Old age bus travel
Awaiting internal review.
Interesting. WDTY.com has this as being overdue, but yet using the calculator on the Scottish Information Commissioners website I am informed that its...
Old age bus travel - July 2010
Refused.
Ooops, ive made that annotation against the wrong request. please disregard!
Old age bus travel - July 2010
Refused.
Interesting. WDTY.com has this as being overdue, but yet using the calculator on the Scottish Information Commissioners website I am informed that it...
