Corporate Services
020 7035 4848
Directorate
(switchboard)
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Tom Young
request-223059-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
3rd September 2014
Freedom of Information request - 32574
Dear Mr Young,
Thank you for your e-mail of 3rd August, in which you ask for information on a named
individual. Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000.
Your full request can be found in Annex A.
The Home Office neither confirms nor denies holding the information you requested, by
virtue of section 40(5)(a) and (b)(ii) of the FOI Act. This absolves the responsibility to
confirm or deny holding information, where to do so would contravene any of the data
protection principles covered by the Data Protection Act 1998. This response should not
be taken as conclusive evidence that the information you have requested is or is not held
by the Home Office.
If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review
of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to the address
below, quoting reference 32574. If you ask for an internal review, it would be helpful if you
could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.
Information Access Team
Home Office
Ground Floor, Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
e-mail
: xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx
As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request will be
reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. If you
remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right of complaint to the
Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Yours sincerely
S.Snowsell
Information Access Team
Switchboard 020 7035 4848
E-mail
xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx
Annex A – Full request
Dear Home Office,
Please provide the background as to why Leah McGrath Goodman a journalist with a
clean record was detained for over 12 hours at Heathrow Airport on 11th September
2011.
Please also clarify why her visa was revoked at that time.
Yours faithfully,
Tom Young