Mr Josh Hastings
Information Management Team
Westminster City Council
By email only
5 Strand
London
WC2N 5HR
Telephone 0207 641 3921
Email xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Our ref: 6511737
Your ref:
Date: 4 December 2017
Dear Mr Hastings
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your recent request to the Council. You asked to be provided with the
following information:
I would like to see a copy of the coroner's report into the death of GCHQ/SIS
codebreaker Gareth Williams.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/13/mi6-spy-dead-bag-locked-
himself-gareth-williams
Response
Please be advised that the Coroner’s Office is a separate entity to the council. For
the purposes of section 1 (4) of the Act, therefore, the requested information is not
held by Westminster City Council. The council is therefore unable to provide it.
Further, it is not possible to transfer your requests to the Coroner’s Office as they are
not a public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for
an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of
the date of receipt of the response to your original letter and should be addressed to:
Information Management Team
5 Strand
London
WC2N 5HR
xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to
apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Further information is
also available from the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113 or 01625 54 57 45
Fax: 01625 524510
Web:
www.ico.org.uk
Yours sincerely
Information Management Team