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Dear Copeland Borough Council,

I would refer you to John Greenwood and Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council v Information Commissioner (EA/2011/0131 and EA/2011/0137)(17-2-2012)

I would also refer you to p70 of your Constitution which at 5(3) obliges employees to declare non-financial interests

Please can you provide me with a copy of the declaration of interests made by your Monitoring Officer. This may of course be subject to limited redaction as prescribed by the ICO in the case cited.

If no such declaration has been made then can you please confirm

Many thanks

Yours faithfully,

Peter Stevens

info@copeland.gov.uk, Copeland Borough Council

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Hello [FOI #579872 email],

Thank you for your email. We have received your message and it is being
handled by one of our Customer Service Officers. Please expect a reply
shortly.

 

Thank you.

 

Copeland Borough Council, Market Hall, Market Place, Whitehaven, CA28 7JG.
Tel: 01946 598300. Fax: 01946 598303. [5]www.copeland.gov.uk,
[6][Copeland Borough Council request email] 

Working to improve lives, communities and the prosperity of Copeland

 

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Copeland - the best place to live in Cumbria This email is confidential
and is for the attention of the addressee only. Copeland Borough Council
accept no responsibility for information, errors or omissions contained in
it. We make every effort to keep our network free from viruses. You should
independently check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses, as we can
take no responsibility for any computer viruses that might be transferred
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Dear [email address],

I just wondered why this has not been moved to the next stage as has my other enquiry to your Council? An enquiry I have also sent to Allerdale which, with your Council, seems to be the only Councils in Cumbria to fail to comply with the requirements of the law.

Thanks

Yours sincerely,

Peter Stevens

info@copeland.gov.uk, Copeland Borough Council

Hello [FOI #579872 email],
You've contacted us outside our regular hours of operation.
Please expect a response during our regular business hours.

Thank you.

Copeland - the best place to live in Cumbria This email is confidential
and is for the attention of the addressee only. Copeland Borough Council
accept no responsibility for information, errors or omissions contained in
it. We make every effort to keep our network free from viruses. You should
independently check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses, as we can
take no responsibility for any computer viruses that might be transferred
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Copeland Borough Council

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Dear Mr Stevens

Thank you for your email, Apologies that you have not had a response from
us at Copeland Borough Council. 
Could you please email across your original email and then I can
chase thing up for you and let you know what is going on.

Yours sincerely 

Suzanne foote 


Customer Service Officer

Copeland Direct

Copeland Borough Council 

Copeland Borough Council, Market Hall, Market Place, Whitehaven, CA28
7JG. Tel: 01946 598300. Fax: 01946
598303. [1]www.copeland.gov.uk, [2][Copeland Borough Council request email]

 



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Dear Suzanne,
There are two requests

1.

Dear Copeland Borough Council,

I would refer you to John Greenwood and Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council v Information Commissioner (EA/2011/0131 and EA/2011/0137)(17-2-2012)

I would also refer you to p70 of your Constitution which at 5(3) obliges employees to declare non-financial interests

Please can you provide me with a copy of the declaration of interests made by your Monitoring Officer. This may of course be subject to limited redaction as prescribed by the ICO in the case cited.

If no such declaration has been made then can you please confirm

Many thanks

.............and 2 -where Allerdale and your Council seems out of step with other Councils at this time

Dear Copeland Borough Council,

s29(5)(b) imposes a legal duty on the Monitoring Officer of the Borough Council to secure that the Registers of Interests of its elected personnel are published on the Council web site. This does not appear to have been complied with

Can the Council please provide such information as it has as to

(a) why it has failed to ensure compliance with this legal duty, and

(b) when it proposes to so comply

Thank you

info@copeland.gov.uk, Copeland Borough Council

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Hello [FOI #579872 email],

Thank you for your email. We have received your message and it is being
handled by one of our Customer Service Officers. Please expect a reply
shortly.

 

Thank you.

 

Copeland Borough Council, Market Hall, Market Place, Whitehaven, CA28 7JG.
Tel: 01946 598300. Fax: 01946 598303. [5]www.copeland.gov.uk,
[6][Copeland Borough Council request email] 

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Working to improve lives, communities and the prosperity of Copeland

 

 

 

Copeland - the best place to live in Cumbria This email is confidential
and is for the attention of the addressee only. Copeland Borough Council
accept no responsibility for information, errors or omissions contained in
it. We make every effort to keep our network free from viruses. You should
independently check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses, as we can
take no responsibility for any computer viruses that might be transferred
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Good afternoon Mr Stevens, 

Thank you for your reply. 

I will now forward the information over to the Freedom Of Information
officer who will deal with the request. I have contacted the officer to
ensure they have received the email and they will contact you in due
course. 

I hope this information is helpful to you. If you require any further
assistance in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact us. 

Kind regards, 

Caitlin Frew

Customer Service Officer

Copeland Direct

Copeland Borough Council 

Copeland Borough Council, Market Hall, Market Place, Whitehaven, CA28
7JG. Tel: 01946 598300. Fax: 01946
598303. [1]www.copeland.gov.uk, [2][Copeland Borough Council request email]

 



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From: Peter Stevens <[FOI #579872 email]>
Date: Monday, 10 June 2019, 13:33:12
To: FOI requests at Copeland Borough Council <[Copeland Borough Council request email]>
Subject: Re: Auto Response
Dear Suzanne,
There are two requests

1.

Dear Copeland Borough Council,

I would refer you to John Greenwood and Bolton Metropolitan Borough
Council v Information Commissioner (EA/2011/0131 and
EA/2011/0137)(17-2-2012)

I would also refer you to p70 of your Constitution which at 5(3) obliges
employees to declare non-financial interests

Please can you provide me with a copy of the declaration of interests made
by your Monitoring Officer. This may of course be subject to limited
redaction as prescribed by the ICO in the case cited.

If no such declaration has been made then can you please confirm

Many thanks

.............and 2 -where Allerdale and your Council seems out of step
with other Councils at this time

Dear Copeland Borough Council,

s29(5)(b) imposes a legal duty on the Monitoring Officer of the Borough
Council to secure that the Registers of Interests of its elected personnel
are published on the Council web site. This does not appear to have been
complied with

Can the Council please provide such information as it has as to

(a) why it has failed to ensure compliance with this legal duty, and

(b) when it proposes to so comply

Thank you

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Freedom of Information, Copeland Borough Council

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Dear Mr Stevens

 

Under the provision of Section 8(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act
2000, I will require you to provide identification to enable me to confirm
your identity before processing your FOI..

Acceptable identification could be a driving license, utility bill or
something similar that establishes your full name, date of birth and
address with photo ID. An original copy of the proof of identity document
should be sent to the below address, or produced in person.

I will place this request 8847/19 on hold pending receipt of
identification from you. Please note that if no identification is received
within 20 working days, the request will be withdrawn.

 

Kind Regards

 

Data Protection Officer

Copeland Borough Council

 

01946 598300

[1][email address]

 

Copeland Borough Council, The Copeland Centre, Catherine Street,
Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28 7SJ. Tel: 01946 598300. Fax: 01946 598303.
[2]www.copeland.gov.uk, [3][Copeland Borough Council request email]

 

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From: Peter Stevens <[6][FOI #579872 email]>
Date: Friday, 31 May 2019, 12:25:28
To: FOI requests at Copeland Borough Council <[7][Copeland Borough Council request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Senior Officer declarations of
Interests

Dear Copeland Borough Council,

I would refer you to John Greenwood and Bolton Metropolitan Borough
Council v Information Commissioner (EA/2011/0131 and
EA/2011/0137)(17-2-2012)

I would also refer you to p70 of your Constitution which at 5(3) obliges
employees to declare non-financial interests

Please can you provide me with a copy of the declaration of interests made
by your Monitoring Officer. This may of course be subject to limited
redaction as prescribed by the ICO in the case cited.

If no such declaration has been made then can you please confirm

Many thanks

Yours faithfully,

Peter Stevens

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Dear Freedom of Information,

You did not make the same condition, that I must provide ID, a pre-condition to responding to my FOi of the 29th March. You did in fact provide the requested information without any problem.

Not sure why you now wish to treat me differently to how you treated me in the past . It can't be such a difficult question to answer is it?

Yours sincerely,

Peter Stevens

Freedom of Information, Copeland Borough Council

Dear Mr Stevens

Under the provision of Section 8(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I will require you to provide identification to enable me to confirm your identity before processing your FOI..

Acceptable identification could be a driving license, utility bill or something similar that establishes your full name, date of birth and address with photo ID. An original copy of the proof of identity document should be sent to the below address, or produced in person.

I will place this request 8847/19 on hold pending receipt of identification from you. Please note that if no identification is received within 20 working days, the request will be withdrawn.

I will be more than happy to help when I have received your identification.

Kind Regards

Data Protection Officer
Copeland Borough Council

01946 598300
[email address]

Copeland Borough Council, The Copeland Centre, Catherine Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28 7SJ. Tel: 01946 598300. Fax: 01946 598303. www.copeland.gov.uk, [Copeland Borough Council request email]

Dear Freedom of Information,

You did not make the same condition, that I must provide ID, a pre-condition to responding to my FOi of the 29th March. You did in fact provide the requested information without any problem.

Not sure why you now wish to treat me differently to how you treated me in the past . It can't be such a difficult question to answer is it?

Yours sincerely,

Peter Stevens

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Dear Freedom of Information,

You have replied to me by not answering my enquiry which is a little surprising. There has been no request for ID to my earlier FOI so I do not see the relevance in this instance.

You have now indicated that "Under the provision of Section 8(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I will require you to provide identification to enable me to confirm your identity before processing your FOI."

Sorry but s8(1)(b) does not give you any entitlement to ask for ID. S8(1)(b) is part of the definition of a request for information and reads "In this Act any reference to a “request for information” is a reference to such a request which—(b) states the name of the applicant and an address for correspondence.

You have both and the ICO confirms that an email address is a valid address for correspondence.

I am somewhat at a loss here. The Monitoring Officer has a legal duty to ensure that her Council operates within the law at all times. She also has a legal duty to publish on your web site the registers of interests of those elected to your Council and all Parish Councils . Rather than either comply with the law, or explain why you have not so published, you are now seeking to avoid my enquiry on some legal provision that does not say what you claim it says. Another failure to observe the law.

Allerdale District Council, which also had not posted up their registers, was asked the same question and it just provided an answer without this improper approach. If Allerdale can then I cannot see any reason why Copeland has this difficulty

Can you now please provide such information as you hold as to why there is a failure to comply with the legal duty or, if publication is imminent, then please confirm when that is planned to be published

Yours sincerely,

Peter Stevens

Dear Freedom of Information,

To compound this nonsense I now see that you, at last, have posted up the Copeland registers of interests and yet all you needed to so in relation to my enquiry in this regard was to say "The registers are now published on the web site and here are the links........."

There now remains outstanding my enquiry relating to the monitoring officer - again - as the law prescribes there must be transparency here

Yours sincerely,

Peter Stevens

Freedom of Information, Copeland Borough Council

Dear Mr Stevens,

As stated in my original reply to your request on 11/06/19:

Under the provision of Section 8(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I will require you to provide identification to enable me to confirm your identity before processing your FOI..

Acceptable identification could be a driving license, utility bill or something similar that establishes your full name, date of birth and address with photo ID. An original copy of the proof of identity document should be sent to the below address, or produced in person.

I will place this request 8847/19 on hold pending receipt of identification from you. Please note that if no identification is received within 20 working days, the request will be withdrawn.

When I have received your identification we can progress with the request.

Kind Regards

Data Protection Officer
Copeland Borough Council

01946 598300
[email address]

Copeland Borough Council, The Copeland Centre, Catherine Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28 7SJ. Tel: 01946 598300. Fax: 01946 598303. www.copeland.gov.uk, [Copeland Borough Council request email]

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Dear Freedom of Information,

This is becoming somewhat surreal isn't it Copeland?

You continue to cite s8(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as justification for requesting evidence of identity even though s8 has absolutely nothing to do with a legal power granted to you to require evidence of identity. Your lack of understanding of the law is baffling.

I can only assume that your Monitoring Officer has failed to disclose her interests, as required by her contract of employment, and you are in an embarrassing position of trying to defend that situation.

In the light of your decision I am now requesting a review of your decision.

1. You cannot legally refuse to respond to my request citing a section of the Act which does not give you the power to do so

2. You have failed to advise me of my right to seek an internal review of your decision and refusal

3. You have failed to provide details of your review procedure

4. I am unhappy with your failure to cite any lawful power to require me to provide information to your authority before you will respond to my simple request.

5. You have already accepted that I am who I am and kindly provided information in response to a request without seeking evidence that I am who I am such that you cannot now seek to do so. That is simply perverse. This also reveals that your motives here are actually nothing to do with identity but a desire not to respond to my FOI.

6. It is well known that your IT system is weak and has been the subject of a cyber attack and who knows just how much personal data has already been obtained by third parties contrary to the law such that no one can have any confidence that any personal data provided to you will be secure

I look forward to hearing from you with a much more appropriate response that falls within the law. Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Peter Stevens

Freedom of Information, Copeland Borough Council

Dear Mr Stevens,

Thank you for your email.

As previously stated in my email of 11/06/19:

Under the provision of Section 8(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I will require you to provide identification to enable me to confirm your identity before processing your FOI..

Acceptable identification could be a driving license, utility bill or something similar that establishes your full name, date of birth and address with photo ID. An original copy of the proof of identity document should be sent to the below address, or produced in person.

I will place this request 8847/19 on hold pending receipt of identification from you. Please note that if no identification is received within 20 working days, the request will be withdrawn.

It is not appropriate for an internal review of the decision at this point as a decision on whether to process the request has not been taken. The reason a decision has not been taken is because you have failed to provide suitable identification.

If you are not satisfied with how this request is being handled please contact the Information Commissioners Office at:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Enquiry/Information Line: 01625 545 745
For more information: https://ico.org.uk/

Kind Regards

Data Protection Officer
Copeland Borough Council

01946 598300
[email address]

Copeland Borough Council, The Copeland Centre, Catherine Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28 7SJ. Tel: 01946 598300. Fax: 01946 598303. www.copeland.gov.uk, [Copeland Borough Council request email]

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Dear Freedom of Information,
I see now that you are trying to frustrate the legal process set out under the FOIAct by claiming that you can refuse to deal with a FOI and then prevent the ICO from any investigation into your conduct.

I assume here that the MO has so badly failed to comply with her legal and contractual obligations and that is why you are declining to respond correctly to my enquiry.

As regards your failure to have published on your web site the registers of interest I am assuming here that you only eventually did so because of my FOI.

In my earlier FOI back in March you were more than happy as to the validity of my request that you provided me with the information I requested such that your approach now is a contradiction of your own position.

Hey ho....so be it....I will pursue my legal rights through the appropriate channels.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Stevens

Freedom of Information, Copeland Borough Council

Dear Mr Stevens,

Thank you for your email.

As per my email of 11/06/19 and subsequent emails; I will place this request 8847/19 on hold pending receipt of identification from you.

As previously stated; acceptable identification could be a driving license, utility bill or something similar that establishes your full name, date of birth and address with photo ID. An original copy of the proof of identity document should be sent to the below address, or produced in person.

There shall be no further correspondence in relation to this request until identification has been received.

Kind regards

Data Protection Officer
Copeland Borough Council

01946 598300
[email address]

Copeland Borough Council, The Copeland Centre, Catherine Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28 7SJ. Tel: 01946 598300. Fax: 01946 598303. www.copeland.gov.uk, [Copeland Borough Council request email]

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Dear Freedom of Information,

Fascinating.

For one FOI from me, unrelated to an employee, you have accepted that I placed before you a perfectly valid FOI and responded. When submitting, in exactly the same form, an FOI requesting information relating to an employee, for whom you are charged by law with the duty of transparency, you say that that identical submission is not valid.

Allerdale Council on the other hand found the identical FOI perfectly valid and responded.

We shall need to leave to the ICO a determination on your perverse approach to FOI requests.

Actio est ius persequendi in iudicio, quod sibi debater

Yours sincerely,

Peter Stevens

Dear Freedom of Information,

The following complaint is now with the ICO

Dear Sir

Complaint Re failure to properly deal with a FOI request - Copeland Borough Council 

I would refer you to my request here https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/w.... You will note that the Borough Council accepted this as a bona fide request under the FOI Act and dealt with it correctly.

I will now refer you to these two requests

1. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...   Seeking information as to why the Council had failed to post on its web site details of Councillors' Registers of interest as required by law. It declined to reply claiming that I had not submitted a bona fide request even though it was submitted in identical circumstances to my first FOI request which had been accepted. If I can also refer you to this FOI, of the same nature, to Allerdale Borough Council https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c.... You will note that it was more than happy to accept that my FOI merited a courteous reply.

The Borough Council, very shortly after my request was submitted, duly posted on their web site their Councillors registers of Interest as required by law. I do wonder if my FOI actually prompted the Council to comply with the law in this regard. Having done so all that was then required of the Borough Council was to confirm that the registers had been posted - as indeed did Allerdale. It seems to me that that was a cheaper option in terms of staff time rather than to conduct itself as it did.

2. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s... information as to any interests declared by the Council's Monitoring Officer for which the public is entitled to see by virtue of your decision under the case of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council v Information Commissioner (EA/2011/0131 and EA/2011/0137)(17-2-2012). Again - despite the legal obligation to be transparent (regardless of the FOI requirements) the Borough Council declined to respond.

I would hope that you will find it irreconcilable that the Borough Council can find a FOI from me acceptable when seeking enquiry over one aspect of its business but that it refuses to respond when it comes to matters relating to its Councillors or an officer and especially bearing in mind its other legal obligations on transparency. I would suggest here that the Council's reasons for not responding are merely bogus and that, perhaps, it has a policy not to comply with the Act when it comes to information relating to individuals of the Council despite their legal duties in these regards outside of the FOI regime. Its reasons for refusal being a sham.

If the adjoining authority can conduct itself correctly I do not see why Copeland cannot do so.

I am happy in relation to (1) above as the registers have now been posted and the information being sought is now in the public domain. However I am unhappy with the Borough Council's conduct over (2) and would ask that you now intervene to require the Council to provide the information or to confirm that its Monitoring officer has failed to provide details of her relevant interests.

regards

Peter Stevens

Freedom of Information, Copeland Borough Council

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Dear Mr Stevens,

 

Further to my email below; to date I have still not received any form of
identification from you. Therefore, as the 20 working days have now
elapsed, your request (8847) is now closed.

 

The Council makes every effort to make sure that the services it provides
are as efficient and effective as possible, and this includes any requests
under the Freedom of Information Act.

 

If you believe that your request has not been dealt with satisfactorily
you should follow the Council’s complaints procedure.

 

If you have followed the complaints procedure and are still not happy with
how your request has been dealt with you may also contact the:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Enquiry/Information Line: 01625 545 745

For more information: [1]https://ico.org.uk/

 

Yours sincerely

 

Data Protection Officer

Copeland Borough Council

 

01946 598300

[2][email address]

 

Copeland Borough Council, The Copeland Centre, Catherine Street,
Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28 7SJ. Tel: 01946 598300. Fax: 01946 598303.
[3]www.copeland.gov.uk, [4][Copeland Borough Council request email]

 

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From: Freedom of Information <[email address]>
Sent: 11 June 2019 12:00
To: [FOI #579872 email]
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Senior Officer declarations
of Interests 8847

 

Dear Mr Stevens

 

Under the provision of Section 8(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act
2000, I will require you to provide identification to enable me to confirm
your identity before processing your FOI..

Acceptable identification could be a driving license, utility bill or
something similar that establishes your full name, date of birth and
address with photo ID. An original copy of the proof of identity document
should be sent to the below address, or produced in person.

I will place this request 8847/19 on hold pending receipt of
identification from you. Please note that if no identification is received
within 20 working days, the request will be withdrawn.

 

Kind Regards

 

Data Protection Officer

Copeland Borough Council

 

01946 598300

[7][email address]

 

Copeland Borough Council, The Copeland Centre, Catherine Street,
Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28 7SJ. Tel: 01946 598300. Fax: 01946 598303.
[8]www.copeland.gov.uk, [9][Copeland Borough Council request email]

 

[10]Description: Description: cid:image001.png@01CC9A38.1440D120[11]Living
Wage logo

 

From: Peter Stevens <[12][FOI #579872 email]>
Date: Friday, 31 May 2019, 12:25:28
To: FOI requests at Copeland Borough Council <[13][Copeland Borough Council request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Senior Officer declarations of
Interests

Dear Copeland Borough Council,

I would refer you to John Greenwood and Bolton Metropolitan Borough
Council v Information Commissioner (EA/2011/0131 and
EA/2011/0137)(17-2-2012)

I would also refer you to p70 of your Constitution which at 5(3) obliges
employees to declare non-financial interests

Please can you provide me with a copy of the declaration of interests made
by your Monitoring Officer. This may of course be subject to limited
redaction as prescribed by the ICO in the case cited.

If no such declaration has been made then can you please confirm

Many thanks

Yours faithfully,

Peter Stevens

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Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[14][FOI #579872 email]

Is [15][Copeland Borough Council request email] the wrong address for Freedom of Information
requests to Copeland Borough Council? If so, please contact us using this
form:
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Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on
the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
[17]https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlo...

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latest advice from the ICO:
[18]https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlo...

Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will
be delayed.

If you find this service useful as an FOI officer, please ask your web
manager to link to us from your organisation's FOI page.

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