Newham Council Spending On Paper Shredding and Electronic File Deletion 2016 - 2018

The request was refused by Newham Borough Council.

Dear Newham Borough Council,

Please provide for the following financial years:

2016/17
2017/18
2018/19 (for the period April to 03 May)

1) Internal records, approval details, and paid invoices (where external) or administrative staff costings/hours (where internal) for batches of physical documents/ files destroyed via paper shredding by Newham Council

2) Detailed (descriptors) of batches of physical documents/ files destroyed via paper shredding by Newham Council;

3) Detailed (descriptors) of batches of physical documents/ files lists of documents rejected for paper shredding

For electronic files, please provide

4) Internal records, approval details, and paid invoices (where external) or administrative staff costings/hours (where internal) for batches of electronic files destroyed by Newham Council

5) Details (descriptors) of batches of digital files permanently deleted from LB Newham systems

Yours faithfully,

Joel M Benjamin

Newham Borough Council

REQUESTER REFERENCE: C15580
ENQUIRY REFERENCE: E30538
Please quote your references when contacting the Council.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request for information received on 20/03/2018. We are
dealing with your request and plan to respond before 19/04/2018.

If you have any queries or concerns, please contact the Information
Governance Team on 020 8430 2000 or email us at:
[1][email address]

Yours Faithfully

Information Governance Team
Newham Council

Newham Council Publication Scheme is on: www.newham.gov.uk

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Joel M Benjamin

Dear Newham Borough Council,

Please note a response to this FOI is now more than one month overdue.

Now that the reign of fear in Newham has ended with the departure of: "Dear Leader," we expect FOI response time from your department to improve substantially, given the clear political commitment to openness and transparency communicated by New Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz.

Please provide a response to this request ASAP, and I expect the stonewalling tactics to cease herewith.

Yours faithfully,

Joel M Benjamin

Newham Borough Council

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Dear requester,

 

Thank you for your request. We attach our response under the disclosure
provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  We apologise for the
delay in responding to you.

 

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, then you have
the right under Section 50 of the Act to request an internal review.  The
Information Commissioner would expect you to have given the Council the
opportunity to deal with your appeal prior to you contacting them. All
such requests must be sent to us within two months of receiving this
response and clearly state your reference number and reasons for an
internal review. You should send this by email to:
[1][email address].

 

Please see further guidance on the Freedom of Information Appeals page:
[2]http://www.newham.gov.uk/YourCouncil/Fre...

 

As with other local authorities, the number of enquiries has increased
each year since the introduction of the Freedom of Information
legislation.  Therefore, to enable us to deal with your enquiry more
efficiently, we have introduced an online form.  We would ask that you
submit all future requests via our online form:

[3]https://forms.newham.gov.uk/AF3/an/defau...

 

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact a
member of our team on 020 8430 2000 or email us at:
[4][email address].

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Governance

London Borough of Newham

Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road,  London E16 2QU

Tel: 020 8430 2000

 

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NOTE: This communication is sent for and on behalf of the London Borough
of Newham.
However the views expressed within it are not necessarily the views or
policies of the Council. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or
alteration of this communication and any attachments is forbidden. This
communication and any attachments are intended for the addressee only and
may be confidential. If this has come to you in error you should
immediately permanently destroy it.
You should take no action based on it or copy or show it to anyone and
telephone the Council immediately with any issues on 020 8430 2000 or any
other number provided in the communication. Please note that electronic
communication is not considered a secure medium for sending information
and therefore maybe at risk.
We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when using
this form of communication with us. Although we have taken steps to ensure
that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in
keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are
actually virus free and should run current anti-virus software. Please
note that email may be monitored and checked to safeguard the council
network from viruses, hoax messages or abuse of the Council's systems.
Action may be taken against any malicious and deliberate attempts to
infect the council network.
The information contained in this email maybe subject to public disclosure
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is
legally exempt from disclosure the confidentiality of this email and your
reply cannot be guaranteed.

References

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2. http://www.newham.gov.uk/YourCouncil/Fre...
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4. mailto:[email address]