This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'Letters from Coroners 2018'.


 
 
Address    
                 Caxton House 
 
 
                Tothill Street 
 
                 
London 
      
                  SW1H 9DA 
 
Website                       www.dwp.gov.uk 
 
 
Date  
             24 July 2019                         
 
 
 
 
 
Amanda Hart  
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx  
  
 
 
 
 
Ref: FOI2019/25250 
 
 
Dear Ms Hart  
 
Freedom of Information  
 
Thank you for your email of 7th July 2019 in which you asked: 
 
 
Please kindly provide a copy of letters the department has received from 
Coroners dated 2018 which were not Regulation 28. Names of the deceased 
may be redacted as necessary if present. 
 
 
 
The Department may hold information falling within the description specified in your 
request. It may help if I explain that the Department employs approximately 75,000 
people over 700 geographical sites, any of whom may hold correspondence received 
from Coroners in 2018. 
 
We estimate that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the 
appropriate limit for central Government, set by regulations at £600. This represents 
the estimated cost of one person spending 3½ working days in determining whether 
the Department holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting it.  
 
Under S.12 of the Freedom of Information Act the Department is not therefore obliged 
to comply with your request and we will not be processing it further.  
 
Under S.16 of the Freedom of Information Act we should help you refine your request 
so that it may fall beneath the cost limit. You might like to narrow your request by 
restricting it to specific business or geographical areas of the Department or perhaps 
to a particular person. However, we advise this would be exempt from disclosure as it 

 
 
would fall under the exemption in Section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act, which 
relates to prohibitions on disclosure.  
 
S.123 of the Social Security Administration Act (SSSA) 1992 makes it an offence for 
anyone who is employed in social security administration to disclose without lawful 
authority any information acquired in the course of that employment and which relates 
to a particular person. The information that you have requested would, if held, be 
subject to this provision and disclosing such information, even in anonymised or 
summarised form, would allow individuals to be identified. 
 
 
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference 
number above. 
 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
 
DWP Central FOI Team  
 
 
 

 
 
Your right to complain under the Freedom of Information  
 
If you are not happy with this response you may request an internal review by e-
mailing xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx. or by writing to: 
 
DWP, Central FoI Team,  
4th Floor, Caxton House,  
Tothill Street,  
London,  
SW1H 9DA. 
 
Any review request should be submitted within two months of the date of this letter.  
 
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review you may apply directly to 
the Information Commissioner’s Office for a decision. Generally the Commissioner 
cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted our own complaints procedure. 
The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s 
Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF www.ico.gov.uk