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Dear City of London Corporation,
I am making an FOI on the following questions regarding Sexual Health London (SHL) - online sexual health service in your borough:

1. Please provide me with the total number of test kits issued by the SHL service on behalf of your residents in 2022

2. Please provide me with the number of test kits which were issued by the SHL service on behalf of your residents in 2022 and returned, processed and results reported to the service user within 20 days by the SHL online service

3. Please provide me with the total number of positive results for Chlamydia from samples received from your residents by the SHL online service laboratory in 2022

4. Please provide the total number of service users who have tested positive for Chlamydia in 2022 using the SHL online testing service - where you have confirmation that the service user
has been treated (either by referral into clinic or through the home treatment option)

5. Please provide me with the total number of safeguarding flags on SHL in users who are 16 and 17 years old in 2022

6. Please provide me with the total number of safeguarding cases in the 16 and 17 year olds reported to the SHL service who have been successfully contacted by the SHL clinical team in 2022

7. Please confirm that the laboratory used by SHL is registered with the Care Quality Commission for diagnostics and screening.

8. Please confirm that the laboratory used by SHL has the ISO 15189 accreditation appropriate for a medical laboratory as opposed to a general Laboratory.

9. If the answer to question 8 is ‘no’ please provide details of the assurance you hold that the pre-analytical & post-analytical elements of the proposed service meet the requirements & standards of ISO 15189;

10. What date did you sign your Inter Authority Agreement with the City of London Corporation for the pan-London sexual health e-service?

Yours faithfully,

Poppy Dadd

COL-EB-InformationOfficer, City of London Corporation

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Dear Poppy Dadd,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

The City of London (CoL), sometimes also called the City of London Corporation, acknowledges receipt of your two identical requests for information of 28 January 2023.

(Please note that, although the WDTK site lists the CoL at two places under two different names -
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/city_...
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/commo...
- where your identical requests are listed, the CoL is in fact one legal entity. Its full, official name is 'The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'. We have informed the WDTK website that it is maintaining two sections for one body, and that it would be less confusing for applicants if the site referred to the CoL under one name instead of maintaining two lists and two names for the same legal entity, but it has declined to make the change. For further clarification of the position of the CoL under the FOIA, please see Paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 of the FOIA, which describes the CoL as being subject to the FOIA with regard to 'The Common Council of the City of London, in respect of information held in its capacity as a local authority, police authority or port health authority').

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the "Square Mile", ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the following page containing a link to a map (City of London - Interactive Mapping), which shows the local authority area covered by the CoL:
https://www.mapping.cityoflondon.gov.uk/...

The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information please see: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor's Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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