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Shared Services 
020 7035 4848 
Directorate 
(switchboard) 
2 Marsham Street 
 
London SW1P 4DF 
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