FOIA and staffing details

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Dear Merseytravel,

Under the Freedom of Information Act I would like to request the following details please:

1) The number of FOIA requests received by Merseytravel for the year 2017 (if you do not report per calendar year please could you provide the last full reporting year figures);
2) The number of FOIA requests responded to on-time for the reporting period detailed in 1) above
3) The number of SAR requests received by Merseytravel for the year 2017 (if you do not report per calendar year please could you provide the last full reporting year figures);
4) The number of CCTV requests received by Merseytravel for the year 2017 (if you do not report per calendar year please could you provide the last full reporting year figures);
5) The number of staff that Merseytravel employs to handle FOIA, SAR and CCTV requests; and
6) If Merseytravel has a appointed a Data Protection Officer for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation?
7) If the answer to 6) is yes, the name and contact details of the Data Protection Officer

Yours faithfully,

William Morgan

Henderson, Andrew, Merseytravel

Dear Mr Morgan

LFS/AH/RSN16919

Thank you for your email. Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and will be answered within twenty working days.

If you have any queries about this request do not hesitate to contact me. Please quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Henderson

Senior Information Management Officer | Merseytravel | Mann Island, PO Box 1976, Liverpool, L69 3HN
Office: 0151 330 1679 | Email: [email address]

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Henderson, Andrew, Merseytravel

Dear Mr Morgan

LFS/AH/RSN16919

Thank you for your recent request, which has been processed under the Freedom of Information Act. Please find Merseytravel’s response below.

1) The number of FOIA requests received by Merseytravel for the year 2017 (if you do not report per calendar year please could you provide the last full reporting year figures);

Merseytravel received a total of 58 requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 in 2017.

2) The number of FOIA requests responded to on-time for the reporting period detailed in 1) above

All requests were responded to on time.

3) The number of SAR requests received by Merseytravel for the year 2017 (if you do not report per calendar year please could you provide the last full reporting year figures);

Merseytravel received a total of 101 subject access requests made under the Data Protection Act 1998 in 2017.

4) The number of CCTV requests received by Merseytravel for the year 2017 (if you do not report per calendar year please could you provide the last full reporting year figures);

All requests received under the Data Protection Act 1998 were responded to on time.

Requests for CCTV are handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of Act, and reported along with other all requests for personal information. The majority of the subject access requests referred to above were for CCTV footage.

Merseytravel received 61 requests for the disclosure of personal information under Section 29 (criminal investigations) and Section 35 (legal proceedings) of the Act. Again, the majority of these were for CCTV footage.

If you would like a specific figure for the number of requests for CCTV, I would be grateful if you could clarify in accordance with Section 1(3) of the FOIA whether this is to include all requests or just those that were not subject access requests.

5) The number of staff that Merseytravel employs to handle FOIA, SAR and CCTV requests; and

One staff member, the Senior Information Management Officer, is responsible for the day to day handling of FOIA and Data Protection requests. This work is assisted by colleagues across Merseytravel and Mersey Tunnels Police, who administer the organisation’s CCTV network.

6) If Merseytravel has a appointed a Data Protection Officer for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation?

Merseytravel has not yet appointed a Data Protection Officer for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation.

7) If the answer to 6) is yes, the name and contact details of the Data Protection Officer

N/A

You may be interested to know that Merseytravel publishes a Disclosure Log of FOIA requests responded to on our website at the following link: http://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/about-us/...

I trust this information is of interest to you.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right under the Act to ask for an internal review, which should be addressed to:
Mrs Julie Watling
Legal, Democratic Services & Procurement Manager
Merseytravel
PO Box 1976
Liverpool
L69 3HN
[email address]

If you are not content with the result of your internal review, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner, whose address is
The Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House,
Water Lane,
Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF
www.ico.gov.uk

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right under the Act to ask for an internal review, which should be addressed to:
Mrs Julie Watling
Legal, Democratic Services & Procurement Manager
Merseytravel
PO Box 1976
Liverpool
L69 3HN
[email address]

If you are not content with the result of your internal review, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner, whose address is
The Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House,
Water Lane,
Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF
www.ico.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Andy Henderson

Senior Information Management Officer | Merseytravel | Mann Island, PO Box 1976, Liverpool, L69 3HN
Office: 0151 330 1679 | Email: [email address]

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