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If you have any queries, please contact the Council's Corporate Legal Team
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Dear John Brown,

I refer to your Freedom of Information request of 03/02/2020 in relation
to Housing benefit.

From our preliminary assessment, it is clear that we will not be able to
answer your request without further clarification. 

The Council requires further information in order to identify and locate
the information you have asked for. In particular, it would be useful to
know what you mean by “in the last year”? For example, this could mean the
last full calendar year or financial year, or perhaps exactly year ago
from today’s date?

Please could you specify what you require.

Once you have clarified your request, I will be able to process your
request.  If I do not receive clarification within three months your
request will be considered to have lapsed. (Under section 1(3) of the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a public authority need not comply with
a request unless any further information reasonably required to locate the
information is supplied).

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

Regards,

Nathan Matterson
Junior Legal Assistant

Legal & Governance

Southampton and Fareham Legal Services Partnership
Southampton City Council
Tel: 023 8083 3000 (switchboard)

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FOI-1920-1196-035077/01458499

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data protection legislation. If you are not the person or organisation it
was meant for, apologies, please ignore it, delete it, and notify us. SCC
does not make legally binding agreements or accept formal
notices/proceedings by email. E-mails may be monitored. This email (and
its attachments) is intended only for the use of the person(s) to whom it
is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged and/or
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Thank you for contacting Southampton City Council.

Your enquiry will be passed to the relevant team/officer for action.

If you have made a request for information, you will receive a response
promptly, and within the statutory timeframe for compliance. Once your
request has been logged, you will receive further details of this, and you
may be contacted if we require further information from you.

If you have any queries, please contact the Council's Corporate Legal Team
on 023 8083 2129.

This email is confidential but may have to be disclosed under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000, Environmental Information Regulations 2004 or
data protection legislation. If you are not the person or organisation it
was meant for, apologies, please ignore it, delete it, and notify us. SCC
does not make legally binding agreements or accept formal
notices/proceedings by email. E-mails may be monitored. This email (and
its attachments) is intended only for the use of the person(s) to whom it
is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged and/or
confidential. If it has come to you in error, you must take no action
based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone.

Dear John Brown,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 10/02/2020.
This matter has been logged under reference number FOI-1920-1196-035077.

Unless clarified otherwise, your request is being dealt with under the
terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and will be forwarded to the
service area(s) holding the information. Your request will be answered
promptly, and within twenty working days of the date your request was
received.

Please note, the service area(s) holding the information may need further
information from you to locate the information sought once they have
received the request, and you will be contacted should this be necessary.

If you have any queries about this request do not hesitate to contact us
at [1][email address]. Please remember to quote the
reference number above in any future communications.

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You may wish to view our Publication scheme to ascertain whether the
information you are seeking is already published. If you find the
information you are seeking, please let us know accordingly and we will
close your request. If we do not hear from you further we will continue to
process your request in accordance with the relevant legislation.

Regards,

Nathan Matterson
Junior Legal Assistant

Legal & Governance

Southampton and Fareham Legal Services Partnership
Southampton City Council
Tel: 023 8083 3000 (switchboard)

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its attachments) is intended only for the use of the person(s) to whom it
is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged and/or
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Dear John Brown,

I refer to your Freedom of Information request referenced FOI-1920-1196.

Please find attached the Council’s response to your recent Freedom of
Information Act request.

Kind Regards

Business Support Service

Southampton City Council

This email is confidential but may have to be disclosed under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000, Environmental Information Regulations 2004 or
data protection legislation. If you are not the person or organisation it
was meant for, apologies, please ignore it, delete it, and notify us. SCC
does not make legally binding agreements or accept formal
notices/proceedings by email. E-mails may be monitored. This email (and
its attachments) is intended only for the use of the person(s) to whom it
is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged and/or
confidential. If it has come to you in error, you must take no action
based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone.