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Nick Leaton
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This person's 49 Freedom of Information requests
Whole of Government Accounts
Awaiting response.
by Government Actuary’s Department to Nick Leaton on 8 February 2012.
Awaiting response.
Mr Leaton,
Please see the attached acknowledgement to your Freedom of Information
request dated 8^th February 2012.
Regards...
State Pension and WGA
Awaiting response.
by Her Majesty’s Treasury to Nick Leaton on 8 February 2012.
Awaiting response.
Dear Mr Leaton,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. I write to confirm receipt of your request and to let you know that it is receivin...
State pension entitlement
Partially successful.
by Department for Work and Pensions to Nick Leaton on 6 February 2012.
Partially successful.
Dear Nick Leaton
Please see attached response to your FoI request
Kind regards
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Central Freedom of Information A Annex Tea...
House of Lords Correspondance
Partially successful.
by House of Lords to Nick Leaton on 2 February 2012.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr. Leaton
I am writing in response to your request for information relating to
correspondence between the House of Lords Administration a...
35p a year
Awaiting response.
by Office of Gas and Electricity Markets to Nick Leaton on 25 January 2012.
Awaiting response.
Request acknowledged. For reference this is logged as 008-2012
Paul Kitcher
Head of Information Management
Information Management and Technology
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Dear Mr Leaton,
Please find attached our reply to your recent FOI request.
Regards
Wendy Rendall
Information Rights Unit
Gus O'Donnell
Internal review request
sent to Cabinet Office by Nick Leaton on 22 November 2011.
Awaiting internal review.
I would like a review of this refusal to supply the e-mails. You may redact the names of the junior officials, but keep in place any other official...
Thanks, that has met the request in full.
Yours sincerely,
Nick Leaton
Receipt of FOI request
Request sent to Cabinet Office by Nick Leaton on 15 September 2011.
Long overdue.
On the 15 August 2011 I submitted an FOI request to the Cabinet office regarding Gus O'Donnell's use of credit cards.
Can you please supply the t...
Attendance Records
Partially successful.
by House of Lords to Nick Leaton on 14 September 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr. Leaton,
Thank-you for your e-mail of 30th August with the subject line "Internal review of Freedom of Information request -Attendance Record...
All rather funny isn't it. I've asked the same question to the commons, and they state that you can't get access without passes.
Now because the...
Thank you. That is the information I was after.
Appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Nick Leaton
Head of Child Benefits
Successful.
by HM Revenue and Customs to Nick Leaton on 4 July 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mr Leaton,
I am intrigued by your FOI request to the Child Benefit Office. Can't
recall exactly how I stumbled across it... oh, yes, I was sea...
Pen Names
Internal review request
sent to Prime Minister’s Office by Nick Leaton on 23 June 2011.
Awaiting internal review.
I requested an internal review and asked the question, why my FOI request was not responded to in the allocated time.
You have not replied to th...
Traffic Management Orders
Partially successful.
by Southwark Borough Council to Nick Leaton on 20 June 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Leaton
Thank you for your e-mail. I apologise for the delay in responding,
however I have been on annual leave and only returned to the offic...
Access to the Parliamentary Estate
Successful.
by House of Lords to Nick Leaton on 14 June 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mr. Leaton
I am writing in response to your request for information received by the
House of Lords on 30 May.
As you will recall, in respons...
Access to the Commons
Awaiting internal review.
by House of Commons to Nick Leaton on 14 June 2011.
Awaiting internal review.
Dear Mr Leaton
We are perfectly willing to undertake a review. However, I am not at this stage going to ask anyone to review this because what they s...
Access and Temporary Passes
Follow up
sent to House of Lords by Nick Leaton on 26 May 2011.
Successful.
Thank you for your reply, including lots of detail I didn't request. I wonder why.
Interesting too about the bits where you contradict other FOI...
David Laws
Successful.
Members must ensure that claims do not give rise to, or give the appearance of giving rise to, an improper personal financial benefit to themselves or...
David Laws
Follow up
sent to Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority by Nick Leaton on 12 May 2011.
Information not held.
Thanks for the information. I appreciate the quick reply
Yours sincerely,
Nick Leaton
IAS Pension Liabilities
Partially successful.
by Her Majesty’s Treasury to Nick Leaton on 5 May 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Leaton,
Please find attached the results of our internal review into your FOI case.
Regards
Nick Dippie | Information Rights Unit
HM Treasu...
100 billion Subsidy
Partially successful.
by Bank of England to Nick Leaton on 21 April 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Leaton
Please find attached a response to your email dated 4 April below.
Yours sincerely
Public Information and Enquiries Group...
Thanks for the information
Yours sincerely,
Nick Leaton
House of Lords Attendence
Partially successful.
by House of Lords to Nick Leaton on 7 April 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr. Leaton
I am writing in response to your request for information received by the House of Lords on 11 March.
Please find attached informatio...
Email sent to Lords
Partially successful.
by House of Lords to Nick Leaton on 16 February 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Leaton
I am writing in response to your request for information received by the House of Lords on 21 January.
Following clarification of you...
This person's 19 annotations
How much money has been repaid by Margaret Moran
Long overdue.
Time to ask a follow up and get an internal review kicked off. Legg is finished.
Buses destroyed by Top Gear
Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Mr Fairchild. Annotated by Nick Leaton on 22 October 2011.
Unusual response.
Don't believe them. Appeal to the ICO on the grounds you are after the accounts, and not the journalism.
Buses destroyed by Top Gear
Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Mr Fairchild. Annotated by Nick Leaton on 4 August 2011.
Unusual response.
Ask them for the contracts.
David Laws
Successful.
Members must ensure that claims do not give rise to, or give the appearance of giving rise to, an improper personal financial benefit to themselves or...
David Laws
Successful.
Kennedy won't because it was from a time before he took over.
I suspect then that parliament won't, the reason is that if Laws has to pay interest,...
David Laws
Successful.
The critical part relates to the code of conduct for MPs.
It's absolutely clear, black and white.
MPs shall not get a personal benefit from ther...
Commons Member Attendance
Information not held.
There is an electronic access control system in use on the Parliamentary Estate. When someone arrives without their pass, it is recorded. A temporary...
Commons Member Attendance
Information not held.
Actually, the commons hasn't told you the truth. They do hold the information about when they attend. There is a security system to get into the commo...
Attendance record of members
Successful.
What's declared in the expenses claim, isn't necessarily the same as Lords attendances.
100 billion Subsidy
Partially successful.
The actual bailout is quite small. The 1,000 billion cost quoted is a loan at penal rates. ie. The government is making a profit on it. Bad for the cu...
Repayment of ill-gotten gains
Partially successful.
One problem is with investigation. The Clerk of Parliaments, Michael Pownall is responsible for handing out the cash.
Guess who got to do the invest...
Number of people in the UK without a Birth Certificate
Request to General Register Office by Anne-Claire Pilley. Annotated by Nick Leaton on 9 January 2010.
Partially successful.
Was there a reply to this?
Agreements with Peter Webster
Successful.
Any updates on this?
Cost of Justices Robes
Request to Supreme Court of the United Kingdom by Nick Leaton. Annotated by Nick Leaton on 17 December 2009.
Successful.
Thanks Frank. I did tell them about the results.
It's beggars belief.
The Lords is worse. They cost 2,000 pounds a minute!
1 standard british peas...
How much money has been repaid by Margaret Moran
Long overdue.
They are certainly wriggling on this one
Cost of Justices Robes
Request to Supreme Court of the United Kingdom by Nick Leaton. Annotated by Nick Leaton on 7 December 2009.
Successful.
Quite.
I don't the the FOI department at the Supreme court gets irony.
The excuse that they hardly wear the gowns is part of the point. It's a huge...
Agreement with Dr Jones
Information not held.
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/campaign/2009/11/cru-emails-reveal-inconvenient-truths-about-foi.html
For details. He has been reported to the info...
Agreement with Dr Jones
Information not held.
Why not ask for all the emails relating to this decision, including any emails between the met office and Jones, meeting minutes, telephone calls etc....
How much money has been repaid by Margaret Moran
Long overdue.
The Legg inquiry is over. I think you can now resubmit this FOI request and their excuse doens't hold.
I've requested all Legg letters and their cu...
