FOI Request handling, Data for Jan 2009 - Jan 2010 inclusive

The request was partially successful.

Dear Southwark Borough Council,

(1) Please provide the number of FOI Requests received each month by the council for calendar year 2009 and January 2010, and the overall total.

(2) Please confirm whether it is council policy to acknowledge all FOI Requests, and how quickly.

If it is, provide the % which met that target in each month and overall.

If not, explain how the council considers this complies with ICO guidance and the council's duties under the Act, in particular §16 to be helpful.

(3) For each month and the whole period, include how many received the council's response
(a) within 15wd,
(b) in 16-20 wd,
(c) after 20wd,
and (d) any still awaiting response.

(4) Include also how many were met
(a) in full,
(b) partly,
(c) rejected, with a note of the numbers for each reason for rejection - not held, too costly, fees notices etc.

(5) Include how many were referred to Internal Review, how long these took as per (3) above, and the outcome

(6) Lastly for each month and total, include the number of requests that had ICO involvement, distinguishing between numbers where the ICO asked the council to respond due to delay by the council, or where the ICO made a ruling after the council process was exhausted.

Itemise each of these presumably very few cases individually with full dates and outcome.

Please provide this electronically, preferably in an XLS spreadsheet.

Yours faithfully,

James Muldoon

accessinfo, Southwark Borough Council

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Dear James Muldoon

Please see attached acknowledgement

Regards

Janet McDonald
Corporate Freedom of Information Officer
Communities, Law & Governance
P.O. Box 64529
London SE1P 5LX
Email: [email address]
Tel No: 020 7525 7511
Fax No: 020 7525 7675

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McDonald, Janet, Southwark Borough Council

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Dear James Muldoon

Please see attached letter

Regards

Janet McDonald
Corporate Freedom of Information Officer
Communities, Law & Governance
P.O. Box 64529
London SE1P 5LX
Email: [email address]
Tel No: 020 7525 7511
Fax No: 020 7525 7675

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James Muldoon left an annotation ()

No further reply received so referred to ICO on 18-9-10

McDonald, Janet, Southwark Borough Council

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Dear Mr Mulloon

Apologies for the delay and any inconvenience occasioned in providing the
attached reply.

Regards

Janet McDonald
Corporate Freedom of Information Officer
Communities, Law & Governance
P.O. Box 64529
London SE1P 5LX
Email: [email address]
Tel No: 020 7525 7511
Fax No: 020 7525 7675

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Dear McDonald, Janet,

Thank you for your reply.

However, I note that your letter was supposed to have been sent on 15-3-10, but for some reason you cannot explain was not sent until 8-10-10.

In your letter of 15-3-10, you state that, due "to a serious malfunction of our reporting database we have no access to the data stored centrally".

You then say it would go over the cost limit to provide any answers other than that the polciy is to acknowledge FOI Requests within 3 working days.

That may have been true in March, but presumably the database access issue has been resolved by now.

Please now address again my FOI Request.

Yours sincerely,

James Muldoon

Dear Southwark Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Southwark Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'FOI Request handling, Data for Jan 2009 - Jan 2010 inclusive'.

15-2-10: FOI made
18-2-10: FOI acknowledged
15-3-10: council asks for more time
18-9-10: referred to ICO
8-10-10: refused on cost grounds
19-10-10: follow up sent
no further response

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/fo...

Yours faithfully,

James Muldoon

Liliana Dmitrovic left an annotation ()

Dear McDonald, Janet,

The council has failed to respond further since I submitted my Internal Review Request on 3-3-11.

Please provide the full response within 7 days, as otherwise a complaint to the ICO will become necessary.

Yours sincerely,

James Muldoon

James Muldoon left an annotation ()

No further response from LBS so complaint made to ICO on 25-4-11.

MARK, IAN, Southwark Borough Council

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Dear Mr Muldoon

Please find below the council's reply to your request for an internal
review of the way in which your request, submitted under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, was handled.

<<Microsoft Word - Response to appeal IM letter 20110517 _final_.pdf>>
Please accept my apologies for the delay which has occurred in dealing
with the same.

Yours sincerely

Ian Mark
Senior Lawyer (Governance Team)
Communities Law & Governance
Southwark Council

Tel: 020 7525 3441
Fax: 020 7525 7675
Email [email address]

Postal address:
Southwark Council, 2nd Floor, PO Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX

Physical address:
Southwark Council, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH

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