Zoo Licensing Database

The request was refused by Animal and Plant Health Agency.

Dear Animal and Plant Health Agency,

Please provide me with a copy of the data contained in the Zoo Licensing Database.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Cross

Enquiries APHA, Animal and Plant Health Agency

Ref: ATIC0881

Dear Mr Cross

Thank you for your request for information about the zoo licensing
database, which we received on 18 June 2016.  Your request is being
considered in respect to the access to information legislation.

As required by the legislation, we aim to answer your request within 20
working days from the date we received it.  If for any reason we are
unable to meet this deadline we will keep you fully informed of the
reasons for this.

In the meantime, if you have any queries, please contact the Access to
Information Team at the email address below.

 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION TEAM

[1][Animal and Plant Health Agency request email]

 

 

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Ref: ATIC0881

Dear Mr Cross

Thank you for your request for information about the zoo licensing
database, which we received on 18 June 2016.  Please see our response
attached.

 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION TEAM

[1][Animal and Plant Health Agency request email]

 

 

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)

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Owen Boswarva left an annotation ()

APHA seems to have confused Section 12(1) of the FOIA, which allows the public authority to refuse to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit, with Section 11(2), which allows the public authority to take cost into consideration when deciding whether it is reasonably practicable to provide the information in the requested format.

A proprietary format is not "non-usable". If it is only the cost of converting the data into an open format that puts this request over the appropriate limit, APHA can comply with the request by releasing the data its existing format – and therefore cannot rely on the Section 12(1) exemption.