Dear Horatio K Bromhead

Your enquiry has been received and forwarded to the Freedom of Information section who will contact you shortly. In the meantime, if you require anything further in relation to this enquiry please email R&[email address]

Kind regards

Janice Dickson
Paralegal
Licensing and Litigation
North Lanarkshire Council
Tel: 01698 302171
Fax: 01698 302551

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Dear Horatio K Bromhead

I would be obliged if you would disregard my previous email. Your enquiry has been received and forwarded to the Freedom of Information section who will contact you shortly. In the meantime, if you require anything further in relation to this enquiry please email [email address]

Kind regards

Janice Dickson
Paralegal
Licensing and Litigation
North Lanarkshire Council
Tel: 01698 302171
Fax: 01698 302551

ANY ADVICE CONTAINED WITHIN THIS EMAIL MAY BE LEGALLY PRIVILEGED AND MUST THEREFORE NOT BE PASSED ON TO THIRD PARTY

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Dear Sir

I acknowledge receipt of your email which is receiving attention.

I shall contact you again when I am in a position to respond more fully to your request.

Yours sincerely

Lesley Gardiner
Democratic & Legal Services

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Dear Mr. Bromhead

 

Request for Information

 

I refer again to your email of 17 June 2016, seeking information in
relation to Taxi and Private Hire licences.

 

Having investigated, my response to your queries numbered 1) to 3) is as
follows: -

 

1)

 

2010/2011       - 445

2011/2012       - 452

2012/2013       - 416

2013/2014       - 365

2014/2015       - 445

2015/2016        - 462

 

2)         I regret to advise you that there is no dataset from which this
information can be easily extracted and, to compile this information would
require a manual check of individual files.  This, as you can appreciate,
would be highly labour intensive and I must advise that the cost of so
doing would exceed the amount prescribed for the purposes of Section 12 of
the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

 

3)         I can advise that the information relative to this part of your
enquiry is publicly available on the Council’s website and, as you may
know Section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002,
provides an absolute exemption for information which is already
accessible. By way of explanation, all applications refused are decided by
the Council’s Corporate Services (Licensing) Committee and recorded in the
Committee minutes, which are publicly available via the MARS (Minutes,
Agendas and Reports system) section of the Council’s website.  For ease of
reference, a direct link to the relevant section of the website is as
follows: -

 

           
[1]https://mars.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/ege...

 

I can advise that North Lanarkshire Council, having regard to the
provisions of Section 21 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act
2002, has established a procedure whereby any person who has requested
information and is in any way dissatisfied with the decision on that
request, can within forty working days require a review of that decision
by writing to the Head of Business for Legal and Democratic Solutions,
Civic Centre, Windmillhill Street, Motherwell ML1 1AB.  Accordingly, if
you are dissatisfied with this decision and seek such review please write
to the Head of Business for Legal and Democratic Solutions.

 

I would advise, also, that in terms of Section 47 of the Act a person who
is dissatisfied with a notice given by the local authority under Section
21 of the Act - ie. a notice following a review of a decision by a local
authority, or by the failure of a local authority to give such a notice -
may make application to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a
decision as to whether, in any respect specified in that application, the
request for information to which the requirement relates has been dealt
with in accordance with the Act.  Such an application must be in writing
or in another form which, by reason of it having some permanency is
capable of being used for subsequent reference, must state the name of the
applicant and an address for correspondence and must specify the request
for information to which the requirement for review relates, the matter
which gave rise to the applicant’s dissatisfaction with the original
decision of the local authority and the matter which gives rise to the
applicant’s dissatisfaction with the decision on review by the local
authority or the failure of the local authority to issue such a decision. 
The Scottish Information Commissioner can be contacted as follows:-

 

Scottish Information Commissioner

Kinburn Castle

Doubledykes Road

St. Andrew’s

KY16  9DS

 

I hope this information is sufficient for your purpose.  If, however, you
require further information – or I can assist in any other way – please
let me know.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Neil McKay

Freedom of Information Co-ordinator

Democratic and Legal Services

North Lanarkshire Council

Civic Centre

Windmillhill Street

Motherwell

ML1 1 AB

Tel : 01698 302 484

 

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