Treatment of Freedom of Information Requests - Subjects - Outcomes - Time to Respond

The request was successful.

Dear Bromley Borough Council,

For the 100 most recent FOI requests which the council considers closed, be that because the request was rejected, met, or declared "not held", please provide the following information:

(1) The date the request was received by the council.

(2) The summary subject of the request - in less than 20 words

(3) The date the request was acknowledged.

(4) The date the initial final response was given

(5) The status of this response, ie met, not held, rejected

(6) Whether an Internal Review was requested, and if so the date on which this was completed and the outcome status

(7) Whether the FOI Request to the council's knowledge was referred to the ICO.

(8) Whether the ICO issued any guidance or instruction to the council following this referral.

(9) The final outcome after the ICO referral.

It is understood that a case may be referred to the ICO after the council regards it a closed, and so this list request may not be final and definitive, but at any given time, a FOI Request must be either open or closed as far as the council, is considered.

This FOI Request is asking about the situation when it is processed, and a snapshot should be taken, with the date of this recorded in the reply.

As most of this information must already be held electronically for administrative reasons by the council, it should not be onerous to provide it.

Please provide this electronically, preferably in an XLS spreadsheet.

Yours faithfully,

Marlon Campbell

Coulston, Jackie, Bromley Borough Council

Thank you for your request for information which I received on 20 January. Your request is now receiving attention and you should hear from the council within 20 working days of receipt.

Sometimes a fee is payable if it is estimated that a request will take a council officer more than 18 hours to locate and copy the information and to send it out. If that is the case, I will let you know and a fees notice will be sent to you. You will then have to pay before we can proceed to deal with your request.

Please contact me if you have any queries quoting reference 1974.

Best wishes

Jackie Coulston (Mrs)
Information Coordinator
Legal, Democratic and Customer Services
Tel: 020 8313 4316
(Tues-Thurs 8am-4.30pm)

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Dear Coulston, Jackie,

I note that the 20 working day deadline has passed without any response being provided to my FOI Request.

This is very disappointing.

The Request was a straight forward one, and I see no reason why the council could not provider its response within the statutory limit of 20wd.

Please give an indication of a date by when the council expects to provide its reply - as otherwise a reference to the ICO will become necessary.

Yours sincerely,

Marlon Campbell

Coulston, Jackie, Bromley Borough Council

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Dear Mr Campbell

I apologise for the slight delay in sending the information requested. I can now provide the Council's response below.

Best wishes

Jackie Coulston (Mrs)
Information Coordinator
Legal, Democratic and Customer Services
Tel: 020 8313 4316
(Tues-Thurs 8am-4.30pm)

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Dear Coulston, Jackie,

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately you have omitted some of the information requested.

There is no column for date of acknowledgement - with the relevant entries provided.

There is no column for date of reply - with the relevant entries provided.

In two cases you show a section in a column headed "Rejected" - this presumably means reason for rejection, albeit technically refusal

However, there is no column for date of reply - with the relevant entries provided, confirming whether the request was met in full or in part, or refused.

Could you please add this data to the spreadsheet?

I infer that there were two cases where an Internal Review was requested, and that no case involved the ICO - Please confirm.

Yours sincerely,

Marlon Campbell

Coulston, Jackie, Bromley Borough Council

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Dear Mr Campbell

Please see below the council's response. I hope this additional information meets your needs.

Yours sincerely

Jackie Coulston (Mrs)
Information Co-ordinator
Legal, Democratic and Customer Services
Tel: 020 8313 4316
(Tues-Thurs 8am-4.30pm)

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Pensions2, Bromley Borough Council

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Thank you for your pensions query of which we confirm receipt.

Your query has been forwarded to a Pension Administrator and you will
receive a response within 10 working days.

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Marlon Campbell

Dear Pensions2,

It appears that you have muddled my FOI with another.

As you can see from the webpage below, my FOI was completed, and then this one about Pensions arrived.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tr...

Yours sincerely,

Marlon Campbell