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Tony Bowden
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This person's 9 Freedom of Information requests
Publication Scheme
Successful.
by NorthLink Ferries Limited to Tony Bowden on 16 May 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mr Bowden,
Thank you for your patience while we responded to your email. Please accept my apologies for this delay.
Details of our Freedom of I...
Advice on WhatDoTheyKnow.com
Awaiting internal review.
Have you now referred this to the ICO? I would recommend doing so at this point.
Intranet FOI Page
Partially successful.
by Sutton Borough Council to Tony Bowden on 4 June 2009.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Bowden
It is not possible to give you access to London Borough of Sutton staff
intranet. I therefore attach a screen print of the current...
Disallowed Names
Partially successful.
by Identity and Passport Service to Tony Bowden on 28 May 2009.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Bowden,
Thank you for your email of 29 April. Please see the attached response.
Yours faithfully,
On behalf of James Hall
Chief Executi...
Advice sought from Information Commissioner
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by Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust to Tony Bowden on 23 April 2009.
Successful.
Dear Mr Bowden
Thank you for your email, which, if I may say, is both reasonable and
thought provoking.
I have noted the comments you have made.
I...
Vote tracing
Follow up
sent to Electoral Commission by Tony Bowden on 6 April 2009.
Partially successful.
Thank you for your response. I have also since discovered that in your document on "Ballot paper design" (available online at http://www.electoralc...
Training Costs
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by East Cambridgeshire District Council to Tony Bowden on 9 February 2009.
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Dear Mr Bowden
I refer to your recent FOI enquiry regarding External Training costs for Members and Council employees. Please find attached spreadshe...
Use of Pseudonyms in FOI
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by Information Commissioner’s Office to Tony Bowden on 9 January 2009.
Successful.
Link: [1]File-List
Dear Mr Bowden
Please find the response to your request for review, which has been
conducted by Mr Gerrard Tracey, Assistant...
Evaluation of Anti-Litter Campaign
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by Belfast City Council to Tony Bowden on 11 July 2008.
Successful.
Good Afternoon Mr Bowden,
Please find attached a response to your reply regarding a Freedom Of
Information request.
Kind Regards,
Ruth Wilton...
This person's 19 annotations
Council properties in Ropery Street/Twine Terrace
Request to Tower Hamlets Borough Council by Raphael Clifford. Annotated by Tony Bowden on 10 June 2010.
Successful.
You may wish to read (or direct the Council to) the Fees Regulation Guidance at http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/freedom_of_information/...
Most improved council in England
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Interesting that this was cc:ed to a Peter Forrester of CAAL Liverpool. I'm not entirely sure who CAAL are, and Google isn't turning anything useful u...
Software code for air transport models
Partially successful.
Aside from any other consideration, they've fundamentally misunderstood how costs are to be calculated.
According to the Fees Regulation Guidance (...
Software code for air transport models
Partially successful.
With respect to the argument that "my review leads me to conclude that release of the software might be in the public interest only if you were to be...
FOI Internal Review Process
Successful.
I've asked for more information on this as well:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/intranet_foi_page
Agency worker: Agreements, Contracts, pay scales
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They have now claimed in another request that
"We are very happy to respond to requests under the Freedom of Information Act which come to us via the...
Agency worker: Agreements, Contracts, pay scales
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You may wish to compare with http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/advice_sought_from_information_c where the ICO has already advised that WhatDoTheyK...
Brighton and Sussex University Hopsital NHS. Transparency
Request to Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust by R Soles (Account suspended). Annotated by Tony Bowden on 23 April 2009.
Awaiting internal review.
He has now received the advice from the ICO:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/advice_sought_from_information_c
Number of people in the UK without a Birth Certificate
Request to General Register Office by Anne-Claire Pilley. Annotated by Tony Bowden on 7 January 2009.
Partially successful.
I don't think it's really possible for the GRO to know how many people have never had their birth registered, as, by definition, they won't have a rec...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Partially successful.
If you are going to seek a review (which I think you should), I would also note when doing so that your original question ("how the attorney generals...
FOI Complaint: Contract with Thales for National ID Scheme
Request to Information Commissioner’s Office by Sue D Nym. Annotated by Tony Bowden on 28 November 2008.
Refused.
I would suggest that you take them up on Option A and "make a service complaint to a more senior manager". This is a significant change of position th...
Rejections of of FOI enquiries and data protection
Partially successful.
Unfortunately, I think unless an authority really _does_ have a piece of paper entitled, "Policy on how to discourage the dammed public from bothering...
Anti terror campaign/suspicious photographers
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by J Earley. Annotated by Tony Bowden on 7 September 2008.
Information not held.
The focus on confidentiality here appears to be a complete red herring, as the request was only for summary total figures, not details of any specific...
DEFRA Common Purpose expenditure and invoices
Request to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by Caroline Carter. Annotated by Tony Bowden on 31 August 2008.
Partially successful.
The letter refers to copy invoices that do not appear to have been attached.
dual british and israeli nationality
Request to Foreign and Commonwealth Office by Kevin Mason. Annotated by Tony Bowden on 31 August 2008.
Refused.
Rejected: Not held centrally and would cost too much to gather.
correspondence with Simon Berry
Request to Department for Communities and Local Government by Dan Jellinek. Annotated by Tony Bowden on 29 August 2008.
Refused.
Summary: Rejected under Section 35 (Formulation of Government Policy).
Donations
Request to British Broadcasting Corporation by Alastair Manderson. Annotated by Tony Bowden on 29 August 2008.
Successful.
Summary: no donations made to any of these.
raf fauld explosion
Information not held.
Summary: Does not hold information - suggested The National Archives at Kew, in London as alternative source.
Police Officers who have criminal records
Successful.
Summary of response: 134 out of ~7500 officers have criminal convictions. This is broken down by Division/Department in the PDF.
