Shared Services
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www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Amit Hidri
request-222368-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
15 January 2015
Dear Mr Hidri,
Freedom of Information request, Time Complaint (our reference: 32457)
I am writing in response to your e-mail of 6th January 2015, in which you asked for an
internal review of the time taken to respond to your Freedom of Information (FOI) request
received on 30 July 2014.
I have now completed the time complaint review. I confirm that I have not
previously been involved in the handling of your request.
Section 10(1) of the FOI Act requires that the Home Office should have informed you
whether the information you requested was held, and if appropriate, have provided it to
you within 20 working days of your request being received. Section 10(3) of the FOI Act
requires that the Home Office should have informed you within this 20 working-day period
if additional time was required to consider the public interest considerations affecting its
decision to release or withhold the information you have requested. It is clear to me that
neither of these conditions were met.
I have been informed that a response for this case was issued recently. I apologise on
behalf of the Department for the length of time it took to provide you with a response. If
you haven’t received a copy please let me know and I will organise a replacement.
Yours sincerely,
G. Banerjee
Information Access Team
E-mail
: xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx