Address
Caxton House
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London
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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
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DWP, Central FoI Team,
4th Floor, Caxton House,
Tothill Street,
London,
SW1H 9DA.
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The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s
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