Electoral register and email addresses

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Open Rights Group

Dear Cheltenham Borough Council,

I am interested to know whether:

(a) You hold personal email addresses as part of your Electoral Register, and if so,

(b) how many emails you hold in the Electoral Register;

(c) What the source or sources of these emails is;

(d) Whether you have included all or some portion of these emails as part of the datasets you gave to election candidates at the 2019 General Election;

(e) If so, how many emails were supplied;

(f) Whether you supplied email details in other prior elections.

Yours faithfully,

Jim Killock
Open Rights Group

Cheltenham Borough Council

Dear Mr Killock,

 

Thank you for your enquiry received 09/12/19. Your request for information
has been logged as FOI 7200 and you will receive a response within 20
working days.

 

Kind regards,

 

Beth Sears

Customer Relations and Information Officer

Cheltenham Borough Council

Tel: 01242 264350

Email: [1][Cheltenham Borough Council request email]

Website: [2]http://www.cheltenham.gov.uk

 

Working together to create a great future for Cheltenham

 

Follow us on twitter: [3]www.twitter.com/cheltenhambc

 

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Cheltenham Borough Council

Dear Mr Killock,

The information the council holds in relation to your request for
information is below:

 

(a)    Personal email addresses are not held on the Electoral Register –
the Electoral Register shows full name and full address only, therefore
your following  questions (b) to (f) do not apply.

 

 

Please note: If you are dissatisfied with the Council’s response you have
a right of appeal. In the first instance please forward your appeal to
Customer Relations, Cheltenham Borough Council, Municipal Offices,
Promenade, Cheltenham, GL50 9SA or email:
[1][Cheltenham Borough Council request email]. Your appeal will be considered and
a response sent to you within 20 working days.

If you are still not happy with this decision you have a further right of
appeal to the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Kind regards,

 

 

Beth Sears

Customer Relations and Information Officer

Cheltenham Borough Council

Tel: 01242 264350

Email: [2][Cheltenham Borough Council request email]

Website: [3]http://www.cheltenham.gov.uk

 

Working together to create a great future for Cheltenham

 

Follow us on twitter: [4]www.twitter.com/cheltenhambc

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