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Paul Cardin
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2008
I'm compiling a list of Council compromise agreements. Within it, I'm looking for gagging clauses - related to FOI and DP, aimed at restricting people's statutory rights. Early results show that only 2 Councils have done it...
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...but 2 is 2 too many
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This person's 377 Freedom of Information requests
Freemasonry membership of Councillors
Request sent to Cheshire West and Chester Council by Paul Cardin on 12 February 2012.
Awaiting response.
With reference to:
....a request held on your disclosure log dated October 2009 (Item 400319 Masonic Information):
http://www.cheshirewestandch...
Financial and related details regarding 20 members of FPAG
Internal review request
sent to Fuel Poverty Advisory Group by Paul Cardin on 12 February 2012.
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 Fuel Poverty Advisor...
DASS - Recent Departure of Two Senior Officers
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by Pete Sheffield on 10 February 2012.
Delayed.
I smell expensive external legal advice..
Freedom of Information and Data Protection Gagging Clauses in Compromise Agreements
Awaiting internal review.
by Cheshire West and Chester Council to Paul Cardin on 9 February 2012.
Awaiting internal review.
Dear Mr Cardin
Thank you for your email dated 4 February 2012. A panel has been convened comprising of an officer from legal services and a tier 4 ma...
Meeting between party leaders and Anna Klonowski
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by Pete Sheffield on 5 February 2012.
Awaiting internal review.
It may be useful to ask them to pass this on to Ian Coleman as another fail. In their action plan for the AKA report point 14 states:
14. Whilst rec...
Request for copies of correspondence with DLA Piper UK LLP
Request sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Paul Cardin on 4 February 2012.
Awaiting response.
Please forward copies of ALL correspondence you have, whether
received or sent, regardless of the medium used, (letter; email; fax; memorandum, et...
Request for copies of correspondence with
Request sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Paul Cardin on 4 February 2012.
Awaiting response.
Please forward copies of ALL correspondence you have, whether received or sent, regardless of the medium used, (letter; email; fax; memorandum, etc....
Stephen Maddox - Former Chief Executive - Additional Pension Costs
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by Pete Sheffield on 15 January 2012.
Partially successful.
Tenacity and the ICO are the only path to disclosure with a local authority who are so insecure and paranoid of being held to account of their inept,...
Senior Officers - A Requirement to Declare and Register Personal Interests
Refused.
by Nottingham City Council to Paul Cardin on 16 December 2011.
Refused.
I am out of the office until 19th December 2011. Please note that your email will not be processed unless forwarded on to the Information Governance t...
Letters Sent to Abused Learning Disabled Tenants in Care of Wirral Council
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by Pete Sheffield on 29 November 2011.
Successful.
You would presume that any differing letters would be copied and put on the files of any abused disabled person.
Correction:
It is a matter of public record that Mr McElhinney has served as CEO of Liverpool Direct since 2001, and continues to do so. He has also...
Senior Officers' - Requirement to Declare and Register Personal Interests
Follow up
sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Paul Cardin on 12 November 2011.
Awaiting internal review.
As you should be fully aware, "workload", "practical" or "possible" considerations are no justification for missing the deadlines specified within...
Senior Officers - A Requirement to Declare and Register Personal Interests
Awaiting response.
by Cheshire West and Chester Council to Paul Cardin on 6 October 2011.
Long overdue.
Dear Mr Cardin
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your email dated 4 October 2011 timed at 22:08. The Council considers that it has complied in f...
Reimbursement for MPs and leaders returning early from holiday
Partially successful.
by Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority to Paul Cardin on 4 October 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Cardin,
You wrote to IPSA on 9 September requesting an internal review on an FOI
request (ref:FOI2011-079). The review was conducted by...
Reimbursement for MPs and leaders returning early from holiday
Information not held.
by House of Commons to Paul Cardin on 4 October 2011.
Information not held.
Dear Mr Cardin,
Thank you for your request for information which is copied below.
The information you require is not held. However, you may find the...
Total Annual Figures for Compromise Agreements, etc.
Follow up
sent to Nottingham City Council by Paul Cardin on 3 October 2011.
Partially successful.
My records clearly show a failure to respond fully and categorically, as described to you above. They also reveal a tendency to delay without good...
Total Annual Figures for Compromise Agreements, etc.
Successful.
by Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on 26 September 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mr Cardin
I apologise if I had not made it clear. This is the wording of the
clause commonly used in our compromise agreement. The Council does...
Total Annual Figures for Compromise Agreements, etc.
Follow up
sent to Greenwich Borough Council by Paul Cardin on 19 September 2011.
Long overdue.
Thank you for "moving things forward".
May I comment that it doesn't really feel like it?
Yours sincerely,
Paul Cardin
Senior Officers - A Requirement to Declare and Register Personal Interests
Request to Brighton and Hove City Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 9 September 2011.
Refused.
Thank you Stygian, for your very helpful advice on this. I am now lodging an Appeal with the ICO.
Departure of former Chief Executive Andrea Hill - matters arising
Follow up
sent to Suffolk County Council by Paul Cardin on 2 September 2011.
Refused.
Thanks for carrying out the review.
I'm afraid you've failed to convince me that your words and actions have been anything other than an attempt...
Total figures for referrals to Press Complaints Commission
Successful.
by Cheshire West and Chester Council to Paul Cardin on 1 September 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mr Cardin
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am
able to provide you with the following response.
I...
Total figures for referrals to Press Complaints Commission
Successful.
by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on 31 August 2011.
Successful.
Good morning,
Thank you for your email below, the Council is a nil return for your
enquiry, as we have not made any complaints/reports/referrals to th...
Wragge & Co. Andrea Hill - tendering process
Refused.
by Suffolk County Council to Paul Cardin on 30 August 2011.
Refused.
Dear Mr Cardin
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INTERNAL REVIEW DECISION (FOI Request
No. 3668)
I am writing with regard to your request under t...
Complaint concerning Sheriff of Chester Councillor Reggie Jones
Successful.
by Standards for England to Paul Cardin on 26 July 2011.
Successful.
Mr Paul Cardin
Response to: [FOI #78458 email]
26 July 2011
Dear Mr Cardin,
FOI request reference SBE-12609-ZSWH8
Thank you for your request...
Total Annual Figures for Compromise Agreements, etc.
Successful.
by West Lancashire District Council to Paul Cardin on 11 July 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mr Cardin
Please see attached response to the Information Commissioners Office in
respect of your complaint. The information you requested is...
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Compromise Agreements
Request to Cheshire West and Chester Council by Martin Morton. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 3 December 2011.
Successful.
There is now a subsequent request for more information, aimed at seeing whether the council have used the gag again in the past year. Also requested...
Freedom of Information and Data Protection Gagging Clauses in Compromise Agreements
Request to Cheshire West and Chester Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 3 December 2011.
Awaiting internal review.
Please see this link to the original request (and to further interesting links) which exposed Cheshire West and Chester Council's use of the Freedom o...
Freedom of Information and Data Protection Gagging Clauses in Compromise Agreements
Request to Cheshire West and Chester Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 3 December 2011.
Awaiting internal review.
This FOI request is placed in memory of my father, Edwin Cardin, an honest man and seeker of justice, who passed away on this day in 1985.
Qualifications of senior officers
Request to Information Commissioner’s Office by Elvis Funkmaster. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 1 December 2011.
Awaiting classification.
No matter how revolutionary, ground-breaking or full of promise at the outset, diseased bureaucrats will take control of EVERY "regulating" organisati...
Compromise agreements
Request to Information Commissioner’s Office by Mike Bannister. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 3 November 2011.
Partially successful.
The ICO have provide rather an amateurish response to this request in failing to address your clear point regarding the contracting out of statutory q...
CQC Improvement Plan Milestones
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Pete Sheffield. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 3 November 2011.
Awaiting internal review.
The Council is now seeking to recruit more solicitors. Whether this is being done in good faith, or to further prop up an embattled organisation, is o...
Martin Smith Bullying/Harassment/Abuse of Power Report
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Martin Morton. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 30 October 2011.
Partially successful.
Here is confirmation in the media (from April 2011) that bullying / harassment / abuse of power WERE discovered and were central findings of the above...
This amounts to a list of hospitality / gifts ONLY and falls way short of the information you requested.
Furthermore, it fails to go back the requir...
Whistleblowers....number and amounts paid, source of funds
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by J Locker. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 11 October 2011.
Awaiting internal review.
Don't forget, your timescales have been thrown out by two years. May be worth revisiting this and asking for figures 'to date'
As we all know, the nu...
Whistleblowers....number and amounts paid, source of funds
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by J Locker. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 9 October 2011.
Awaiting internal review.
FAO J Locker
A recent statement from the Information Commissioner in another case:
“Paragraph 40 of the Code states that in carrying out reviews:...
Thanks Andy, for your assistance on this.
Senior Officers - A Requirement to Declare and Register Personal Interests
Request to Brighton and Hove City Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 9 September 2011.
Refused.
Thank you Stygian, for your very helpful advice on this. I am now lodging an Appeal with the ICO.
Internal Investigation Reports into Housing Allocations
Partially successful.
Talk about being "dragged kicking and screaming". Like the exposed bully, this council is now trying another ploy: adopting the role of 'victim' and...
Whistleblowing/Confidential Reporting - DASS
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Martin Morton. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 26 August 2011.
Partially successful.
"A DASS Departmental Budget"
....that doesn't sound like a budget HEADING to me. I think you should ask for the budget heading again within an inter...
Stephen Maddox - Former Chief Executive - Additional Pension Costs
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 12 August 2011.
Partially successful.
Thanks John. Appreciate your help on this one!
Total Annual Figures for Compromise Agreements, etc.
Partially successful.
Despite an apology arriving today (devoid of any explanation), I've again reminded the Information Commissioner about their topsy-turvy methods and st...
Total Annual Figures for Compromise Agreements, etc.
Partially successful.
Thank you Alex. It's quite recent also, so I've sent the following to the ICO in addition:
Dear Mr Weston,
Further to the email below, sent earli...
Total Annual Figures for Compromise Agreements, etc.
Partially successful.
Have sent this reply to the Information Commissioner today:
Dear Mr Weston,
I thank you for your response, but believe it has been made in error....
Total Annual Figures for Compromise Agreements, etc.
Partially successful.
I had a notification letter from the Information Commissioner today (13th July) which reads as follows:
Dear Mr Cardin
Your information request to...
Vexatious Complaints Policy
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Pete Sheffield. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 12 July 2011.
Successful.
Pete,
This appears to be a nonsense. The council policy quoted here doesn't refer to Freedom of Information and doesn't contain the word 'vexatious'...
Sussex Coast College Hastings queries
Partially successful.
On the face of it, unfair, prohibitive, and not supported by the Act, but I'd echo what Alex has said. Go to the next stage and ask for an internal r...
Total Annual Figures for Compromise Agreements, etc.
Partially successful.
Sorry. I made a mistake. The council have NOT yet responded to the request for internal review.
Given this lack of response and general ongoing failu...
Compromise Agreements
Request to Cheshire West and Chester Council by Martin Morton. Annotated by Paul Cardin on 28 June 2011.
Successful.
The council caved in on 24th June 2011, but continue to insist that the gag was always "lawful". Currently, they continue to assert that the FOI / DP...
Total Annual Figures for Compromise Agreements, etc.
Partially successful.
Hull City Council went to internal review, before deciding against supplying the information. This internal review failed and I will now appeal to the...
Thurrock Borough Council went to internal review, before deciding against supplying the information. This internal review failed and I will now appeal...
