This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'Section 55 of the Immigration act guidance..'.



 
 
 
 
 
Shared Services 
020 7035 4848 
Directorate 
(switchboard) 
2 Marsham Street 
 
London SW1P 4DF 
www.homeoffice.gov.uk 
Mr Wayne Pearsall 
 
 
 
 
13 August 2013 
Dear Mr Pearsall, 
 
Freedom of Information requests (our refs. 27907, 27891, 27892): internal reviews 
 
Thank you for your e-mails in which you ask for internal reviews of our responses to your 
Freedom of Information (FOI) requests which relate to immigration regulations relating to 
the UK and how the former United Kingdom Border Agency, manages its internal 
processes and procedures. Cases 27907 and 27891 relate to internal processes of the 
former UKBA and 27892 relates to section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration 
Act 2009 - safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the UK (please refer to 
Annex A). 
 
I have now completed the review.  I have examined all the relevant papers, and have 
considered whether the correct procedures were followed.  I confirm that I was not 
involved in the initial handling of your request. 
 
You have previously received substantial responses to 12 full internal review requests  
(27333, 27426, 27193, 27206, 27448, 27391, 27390, 27068, 27215, 27429, 27011, 27634) 
where reasons were given as to why these types of requests have been made vexatious.  I 
concur with these previous internal review responses and have determined that the latest 
three cases also fall under the same category as the subjects are the same. My conclusion 
is that the original responses were correct and that section 14(1) of the FOI Act was 
applied correctly.  Section 14(1) of the Act provides that the Department does not need to 
comply with a FOI request if it is considered to be vexatious. If we consider any future 
requests on this topic to be vexatious, we will not respond to them. 
 
I suggest that you refer to the 12 previous internal review responses mentioned above for 
details regarding the reasons why these types of requests have been made vexatious. 
 
This completes the internal review process by the Home Office.  If you remain dissatisfied 
with the response to your FOI request, you have the right of complaint to the Information 
Commissioner at the following address: 
 
The Information Commissioner 
Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow 
Cheshire SK9 5AF 
 
 
 

 
Yours sincerely 
 
J Hussain 
 
Information Access Team 
 
Information Access Team 
Switchboard  020 7035 4848 
E-mail xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
ANNEX A – Initial Requests 
 
 
FOI 27907 
 
I recently found the following file on your website: 
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/siteco... 
 
I quoted this file to yourself previously on my request for 
information... 
 
I ask the following: 
Please outline what was contained (for the information of others) 
in the file which you have removed. 
 
Please provide the reasons for removal of said file from your 
website. - As UKBA are operating a "transparent" FOI scheme, and 
that is the reason for the file to be posted online, I am very 
interested to know why the file was removed... 
 
Please provide a copy of the file... or if the file is located 
elsewhere on your website a direct link to the file... 
 
Would it be anything to do with the public display of your internal 
network topology? - which i remind you I have made a request for in 
my other FOI request... 
 
If the removal of this file was to remove my evidence for my 
upcoming complaint - please be aware that I have many files which 
detail file paths on the poise server machine to prove that I have 
indeed provided a full and correct filepath - and therefore 
satisfied Sec 1(3) of the act. 
--- 
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a... 
 
I also remind you, that my linked file on this request was not the 
only file that you have indeed sent to clients/public/etc which 
outline filepaths on the poise network. 
 
So please provide all information, memos and emails which detail 
the reasons for removal of the specified file from the home office 
website. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
FOI 27891 
 
What are the clear arrangements by which staff members report the instances where duty is not being taken 
properly into account. 
 
Note 
'2.12. There must be clear arrangements whereby staff who become aware of instances where the duty is not 
being taken properly into account are able to report their concerns' taken from 
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/policyandlaw/legislation/bci-act1/change-for-
children.pdf?view=Binary 
 
 
FOI 27892 
 
followup to REF: 27089.. 
 
Further to my Internal Review request... 
 
Under Section 31(9) of the Children Act 1989, as amended by the 
Adoption and Children Act 2002: ‘Harm’ means ill treatment or the 
impairment of 
health or development, including for example impairment suffered 
from seeing or hearing the ill treatment of another; ‘Development’ 
means 
physical, intellectual, emotional, social or behavioural 
development; ‘Health’ means physical or mental health; and ‘Ill 
treatment’ includes 
sexual abuse and forms of ill treatment that are not physical. 
 
---- 
 
(1)The Secretary of State must make arrangements for ensuring 
that: 
 
(a)the functions mentioned in subsection (2) are discharged having 
regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of 
children 
who are in the United Kingdom, and 
 
(b)any services provided by another person pursuant to arrangements 
which are made by the Secretary of State and relate to the 
discharge of a function mentioned in subsection (2) are provided 
having regard to that need. 
---- 
 
So, as outlined in Sec 55 as one of Mrs May's key 
responsibilities… what arrangements has she made to ensure that a 
child's emotional welfare is protected?