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This person's 44 Freedom of Information requests
TV License evaders caught
Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Richard Jackson. Annotated by Chris on 19 September 2011.
Partially successful.
Has this been before the Commissioner yet? If not, why not? 22 months is taking the mickey somewhat.
Unredacted Common Purpose invoices
Request to Charity Commission for England and Wales by Richard Jackson. Annotated by stygian on 26 December 2010.
Partially successful.
This is a message for ALL those who make FoIA requests regarding the organisation Common Purpose.
For too long Common Purpose has been using the same...
Drivers of No Fixed Abode
Request to Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency by Richard Jackson. Annotated by Joe Andrews on 18 November 2010.
Waiting clarification.
So, what happens in the case of a person with no fixed abode? Are they denied a driving licence because they cannot offer a residential address?
Database of Post Box Locations
Information not held.
Just to update this:
Matthew Somerville has built a tool to add the locations of all the postboxes.
http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/...
DOW 048:030 and DOW 048:011
Follow up
sent to Northern Ireland Environment Agency by Richard Jackson on 22 July 2009.
Successful.
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I was away on holiday.
The scans all appear to have turned out fine: thank you for your work in produ...
FOI Complaint Handling Information
Request to Rother District Council by Richard Jackson. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 4 February 2009.
Successful.
Response from ICO 4 Feb 2009:
I am writing in regards to a complaint that you have referred to the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’). This c...
Security Audit of coi.gov.uk
Request to Central Office of Information by Richard Jackson. Annotated by Public Sector Forums on 12 December 2008.
Long overdue.
I think you would have a case to take this to the ICO.
Apart from breaching the statutory timescales for review, to say that for the exemption in sec...
Common Purpose invoices
Awaiting response.
by Islington Borough Council to Richard Jackson on 21 November 2008.
Long overdue.
Dear Mr Jackson
I apologise for the delay in collating these invoices. The invoices from
the early 2000s were processed before Islington Council...
Monitoring of FOI Internal Review Procedures
Request to Information Commissioner’s Office by Richard Jackson. Annotated by Francis Irving on 10 November 2008.
Successful.
I've now fixed the code so it detects the file type and adds an appropriate extension (.doc in this case) automatically. I've also improved the render...
FOI Internal Review Policies
Successful.
by British Broadcasting Corporation to Richard Jackson on 4 November 2008.
Successful.
Dear Mr Jackson
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20081093
<<RFI20081093 - final response.pdf>>
<<...
Categorisation of FoI Requests
Successful.
by Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (Northern Ireland) to Richard Jackson on 29 October 2008.
Successful.
<<Response to Internal Review 17877.PDF>>
Mr Jackson,
Please see attached our response to your recent request for an Internal
Review.
Regards,
Ke...
Determination of Pricing for Provision of Documents Online
Partially successful.
by Companies House to Richard Jackson on 24 October 2008.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Jackson
Im sorry you didn't receive it I don't know what happened, hopefully this
will come through to you.
Let me know if there are any...
Request for Funding - Common Purpose Belfast
Follow up
sent to Belfast City Council by Richard Jackson on 22 October 2008.
Successful.
Thank you very much for such a speedy response.
Yours sincerely,
Richard
Asking for FOI Complaints to be withdrawn
Partially successful.
by Rother District Council to Richard Jackson on 7 October 2008.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Jackson
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
With reference to your request received on 23 September 2008 about
complaints re FOI requests,...
Permission to photograph banknotes
Successful.
by Bank of England to Richard Jackson on 6 October 2008.
Successful.
Dear Mr Jackson
I am writing in connection with our email dated 18 September responding to
your request for information relating to requests to rep...
NI equivalent to Audit Commission Act?
Successful.
by Northern Ireland Audit Office to Richard Jackson on 6 October 2008.
Successful.
Richard
Thank you for your query. The relevant legislation is Regulation 7 of the
Local Government (Accounts and Audit) Regulations (Northern Ire...
Tracking of Toilet Breaks
Refused.
by HM Revenue and Customs to Richard Jackson on 29 September 2008.
Refused.
Dear Richard,
Thank you for your two e-mails following my responses to your requests for
information about the use of pseudonyms and restrictions...
Use of Pseudonyms by HMRC Staff
Partially successful.
by HM Revenue and Customs to Richard Jackson on 29 September 2008.
Partially successful.
Dear Richard,
Thank you for your two e-mails following my responses to your requests for
information about the use of pseudonyms and restrictions...
Internet Blocking
Refused.
by Birmingham City Council to Richard Jackson on 26 September 2008.
Refused.
Dear Mr Jackson
Please see attached response to your request for an internal appeal.
(See attached file: Appeal Response.doc)
regards
Corporate In...
Driving Licence / Vehicle Registration address for Travelling Community
Partially successful.
by Driver and Vehicle Licensing Northern Ireland to Richard Jackson on 22 September 2008.
Partially successful.
Our ref DV08C40
19 September 2008
Dear Mr Jackson
Freedom of Information Act 2000
I am writing to confirm that the Agency has now completed it...
Data Protection Presentation
Request to Rother District Council by Richard Jackson. Annotated by Ganesh Sittampalam on 18 September 2008.
Successful.
There are (at least) two live internal reviews addressing this point:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/online_petitions_documents_from
http://...
Rejected requests to reproduce banknotes
Successful.
by Bank of England to Richard Jackson on 18 September 2008.
Successful.
Dear Mr Jackson
Thank you for your email dated 1 September asking for access under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (*FoI Act*) to:
**in 2...
Search Warrants
Successful.
by Police Service of Northern Ireland to Richard Jackson on 11 September 2008.
Successful.
Subject: F-2008-03909
September 11, 2008
Dear Mr. Jackson,
FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000
I would firstly like to apologise for the delay in...
Income from Online Systems
Successful.
by Companies House to Richard Jackson on 4 September 2008.
Successful.
Dear Mr Jackson
Further to your email on 27 August 2008, please accept my apologies for
not providing the figures in the format you originally re...
Research visits re: non-electronic records
Follow up
sent to Information Commissioner’s Office by Richard Jackson on 3 September 2008.
Successful.
Thank you for providing these letters as a PDF. This provides all the information I was seeking.
Yours sincerely,
Richard
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Terrorist activity detected from reports of dustbin contents
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by Julian Gall. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 27 March 2009.
Refused.
You should certainly seek an internal review of this. You have no asked for any personal information at all that would be exempt under the DPA, but me...
FOI Complaint Handling Information
Request to Rother District Council by Richard Jackson. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 4 February 2009.
Successful.
Response from ICO 4 Feb 2009:
I am writing in regards to a complaint that you have referred to the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’). This c...
FOI Complaint Handling Information
Request to Rother District Council by Richard Jackson. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 16 October 2008.
Successful.
Well, apart from the procedural problems with their request (I believe that authorities should be able to handle requests even when people are on leav...
Anti terror campaign/suspicious photographers
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by J Earley. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 8 October 2008.
Information not held.
Normally a request for review should be handled by someone superior to the person who made the original reply, although I'm not sure if that's just go...
Unredacted Common Purpose invoices
Request to Charity Commission for England and Wales by Richard Jackson. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 6 October 2008.
Partially successful.
This is a follow-up to http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/common_purpose_expenditure_and_i_30
Common Purpose expenditure and invoices
Request to Charity Commission for England and Wales by Bob MacLean. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 6 October 2008.
Partially successful.
Follow-up request for unredacted copies made: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/unredacted_common_purpose_invoic
FOI Complaint Handling Information
Request to Rother District Council by Richard Jackson. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 3 October 2008.
Successful.
Complaint made to ICO.
emails between defra and the rspb
Request to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by ben addison. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 7 September 2008.
Long overdue.
I would suggest asking for an internal review of this. The DPA exemption doesn't mean an authority can withhold absolutely everything just because it...
Errors in list of postbox locations
Request to Royal Mail Group Limited by Edward Betts. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 1 September 2008.
Information not held.
Wow. That's quite an incredible response. Follow-up made to find out how/when this "not fit for purpose" database was created:
http://www.whatdothe...
