Information Rights Team
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Old Admiralty Building
London SW1A 2PA
Email: xxxxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.xx
Website: www.fco.gov.uk/foi
Ric Lander
By email
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
28 September 2012
Dear Ric Lander
Your Freedom Of Information Request: 0596-12
Thank you for your request for information which we received on 25 May 2012. In your
request you asked for;
“an excel spreadsheet (NOT pdf) list of all FOI requests you have had
since from 29 July 2010 to the present. For each FOI request,
please list:
date of request
date of reply
reference number/ID
subject/title of the request [each request on the list should
include the subject/title of the request]
status [whether information was fully released, partially released
or withheld]”
I can confirm that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office does hold information falling within
the terms of your request.
The FOI Act obliges us to respond to requests promptly, and in any case no later than 20
working days after receiving your request. However, when a qualified exemption applies to
the information and the public interest test is engaged, the Act allows the time for response
to be longer than 20 working days, and a full response must be provided within such time as
is reasonable in all circumstances of the case. We do, of course, aim to make all decisions
within 20 working days, including in cases where we need to consider where the public
interest lies in respect of a request for exempt information. In this case, however, we have
not yet reached a decision on where the balance of the public interest lies.
In your case we estimate that it will take an additional
10 days to take a decision on where
the balance of the public interest lies Therefore, we plan to let you have a response by
12 October 2012. If it appears that it will take longer than this to reach a conclusion, we will
keep you informed.
The specific exemption which applies in relation to your request is: Section 27 International
Relations.
If you are unhappy with the service you are receiving and wish to make a complaint, please
write to the Information Rights Team, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Room SG 120,
The Old Admiralty Building, The Mall, London, SW1A 2PA. E-mail:
xxxxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.xx. You have 40 working days to do so from the date of this letter.
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may then apply directly to the
Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the Information Commissioner cannot
make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the FCO.
The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner's Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Please contact me if you have any queries about this letter.
Yours sincerely,
Information Rights Team
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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