Totals for Subject Access Requests and FOI Section 40(1) Exemptions in 2016

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Dear Thurrock Borough Council,

I would like to make an FOI request for the following pieces of information:

1) How many Subject Access Requests did you receive in the year Jan 1st 2016 to Dec 31st 2016 (or your equivalent business/financial year), and;

2) How many FOI Section 40(1) exemptions did you employ during this same time period?

Yours faithfully,

Nick Jackson

Information.Matters@thurrock.gov.uk, Thurrock Borough Council

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Dear Mr Jackson,

Thank you for your recent communication which is being managed in line
with the Freedom of Information Act under the above reference number. The
details of your request are outlined below together with the council’s
response.

Your request and our response

1)How many Subject Access Requests did you receive in the year Jan 1st
2016 to Dec 31st 2016 (or your equivalent business/financial year):

Please see links below.  These are the full agendas with the Annual Access
Reports Report included, these reports provide statistics regarding
Freedom of Information requests that you may find of some assistance.

 

Sept 2017:
[1]http://democracy.thurrock.gov.uk/documen...

Sept 2016:
[2]http://democracy.thurrock.gov.uk/documen...

2) How many FOI Section 40(1) exemptions did you employ during this same
time period?

 

We do not separately record when we apply section 40 (1) and section 40
(2) so we are unable to break this down further.

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Office, details of this organisation can be found at [4]www.ico.org.uk.
Alternatively they can be contacted on 0303 123 1113.

Kind Regards,

Chloe

 

Chloe Green l Corporate Complaints and Information Governance Assistant I
HR, OD and Transformation

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Thurrock Council, Civic Offices, New Road, Grays, Essex RM17 6SL

 

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