Openness and Transparency

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Dear Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council,

1. Please disclose the current members of the Constitution Working Group.

2. As applied to 11.11.2020, please disclose who instructed that the constitution be changed with respect to amendments to be made to Council Procedure Rule 12 (which deals with public questions)

3. Why was the constitution to be changed in respect of citizens' questions?

On 22 May 2019 the constitution was changed in respect of petitions:
Clause 8b: Define vexatious petitions and how a petition will be deemed vexatious
by the Monitoring Officer
Appendix 4, emphasis point 5: Clarification of matters excluded under the
Council’s petition scheme, where clause 3.1.6 includes:
“A petition will be deemed to be vexatious where, for example but not exclusively, it is manifestly unjustified, inappropriate or improper use of a formal procedure.”

4. Please provide the criteria that the monitoring officer must apply before determining whether a petition is accepted and ( 4.1.) the level of evidence required to justify exclusion of a petition.
It is noted that the above quote comes from Dransfield v FoIA.
5. Who proposed changing the constitution in this regard, and why?

Yours faithfully,

p cialfi

Accesstoinformation, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear P Cialfi,

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Freedom of Information Request      

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 10^th November 2020,
relating to Openness and Transparency, this has been allocated reference
FOI 670-2021.

 

We will process your request as soon as possible and provide you with our
response within 20 working days.

 

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

 

Information Management Team  

Customer, Information and Digital Services 
Finance and Customer Services
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council 

 

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Accesstoinformation, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear P Cialfi,

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information 670-2021

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 10 November 2020, please
find attached the response from Rotherham MBC.

 

Yours Sincerely

 

 

Information Management Team  

Customer, Information and Digital Services 
Finance and Customer Services
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council 

 

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      (01709) 382121

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Dear Accesstoinformation,

Thank you very much for providing the information.

Yours sincerely,

p cialfi

Dear Accesstoinformation,

Now that this part of my FoI request is complete, would you now please provide the metadata associated with the processing of this request.

Please note that, under a separate request, associated information has been requested.

Thank you,

Yours sincerely,

p cialfi

Accesstoinformation, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear​​​​​ ​P Cialfi,

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Freedom of Information Request

Thank you for your request for information dated 10/12/2020, relating to
​ ​ ​ ​Metadata request​​ ​ ​ this has been allocated reference FOI
799-2021.

We will process your request as soon as possible and provide you with our
response within 20 working days.

 

We haven’t received this request previously.

 

Kind regards,

 

Information Management Team  

Customer, Information and Digital Services 
Finance and Customer Services
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council 

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     [2]http://www.rotherham.gov.uk

      (01709) 382121

 

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This is a request for metadata associated with the original request, so the 20-working day rule for this request applies until mid-January.

Dear Accesstoinformation,

Thank you for your acknowledgement.

I look forward to your reply mid-January 2021

Yours sincerely,

p cialfi

Accesstoinformation, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear P Cialfi,

 

Please find attached the Council’s response to your request allocated the
above reference number.  Also attached are the supporting documents
referenced within the reply.  There is also a document advising about
Internal Reviews.

 

Kind regards,

 

Information Management Team

Rotherham MBC

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Dear Accesstoinformation,

Thank you very much for sending the metadata relating to the original request for information on Openness and Transparency.

This part of the request may be successfully closed.

With grateful thanks,

Yours sincerely,

p cialfi