This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'Theresa May's Internet History'.


 
Information Access Team 
Shared Services Directorate 
  2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF 
 
 
Switchboard 020 7035 4848     
 
E-mail: xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx   Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk  
 
Matthew Dodd 
 
 
 
 
                      24 May 2012 
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx  
           Our Ref: 22701 
 
 
Dear Mr. Dodd, 
 
Thank you for your follow up email of 04 May 2012 about your Freedom of 
Information request. You asked: 
 
1.  The projected cost to the taxpayer (calculated or estimated - 
whichever is available) of implementing the Government's 
proposed new legislation regarding extending the use of 
communications data by the police and security services. 

2.  The date, time, and recipient of every email sent by the Home 
Secretary over the last 12 months. 
3.  The date, time, and sender of every email received by the Home 
Secretary over the last 12 months. 
4.  The date, time, and recipient of every internet telephony call (e.g. 
"Skype" call) made by the Home Secretary over the last 12 
months. 

5.  The date, time, and sender of every internet telephony call (e.g. 
"Skype" call) received by the Home Secretary over the last 12 
months. 

6.  The date, time, and recipient of every internet "chat" (e.g. 
"Facebook" or "Windows Live Messenger") initiated by the Home 
Secretary over the last 12 months. 

7.  The date, time, and sender of every internet "chat" (e.g. 
"Facebook" or "Windows Live Messenger") received by the 
Home Secretary over the last 12 months. 

8.  The date, time, and internet address (URL) of every website 
visited by the Home Secretary over the last 12 months. 
 
Your request is being handled as a request for information under the Freedom 
of Information Act 2000.  
 

Under section 12(1) and (2) of the Act, the Home Office is not obliged to 
comply with an information request where to do so would exceed the cost 
limit.  
 
We have estimated that the cost of meeting your request would exceed the 
cost limit of £600 specified in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection 
(Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. We are therefore unable to 
comply with your request.  
 
The cost limit, in this case, would be exceeded due to the breadth of your 
request. To identify and gather all of the information you have requested 
would require us to conduct significant searches and run numerous reports. 
We would subsequently need to gather and prepare the information in scope. 
This would breach the cost limit. 
 
The £600 limit is based on work being carried out at a rate of £25 per hour, 
which equates to 24 hours of work per request. The cost of locating, retrieving 
and extracting information and preparing the response can be included in the 
costs for these purposes. The costs do not include considering whether any 
information is exempt from disclosure, overheads such as heating or lighting, 
or items such as photocopying or postage. 
 
You may wish to revise your request in order to make it more likely to fall 
within the cost limit. In this case, we will consider your request again. As the 
main issue of cost surrounds the breadth of scope, you may wish to refine it 
by significantly reducing the time frames stated, or by highlighting which of the 
submitted questions is of most interest.  
 
I should however mention that some of the information you have requested, if 
still included within a revised request, would likely to be exempt under section 
40 (personal information) of the FOI Act. 
 
If any of the above is not clear, please do get in touch and we will try to clarify.  
 
If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent 
internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint 
within two months to the address below, quoting reference 22701. If you ask 
for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are 
dissatisfied with the response. 
 
Information Access Team 
Home Office 
Ground Floor, Seacole Building 
2 Marsham Street 
London SW1P 4DF 
Email: xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx 
 
 
As with any internal review the Department handles, your information request 
will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this 
response. If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have 

a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by 
section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act. 
 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
N. Dibsdale 
Information Access Team