According to FOI legislation you are allowed 20 working days to reply to requests for information

Waiting for an internal review by Hertsmere Borough Council of their handling of this request.

Dear Hertsmere Borough Council,

According to my records I am still waiting for you to carry out two reviews and one request for information
The legislation quite clearly states that you should reply to a request within 20 working days and for reviews they recommend 40 days for good practice Your dept.has a very cavalier attitude towards this legislation and that is even though the port folio holder responsible is the Leader of the council Cllr Bright

Please let me have the following ;
Since January 2013 to Dec 30 2014 inclusive the number of FOI requests received by Hertsmere Borough Council

Since Jan 2013 to Dec 2014 inclusive the number of FOI requests answered within the 20 working days as per the legislation

As per above please let me have the amount of reviews requested and the time frame in which you replied to reviews

The above are necessary statistics I require as I wish to now make a formal complaint to the Information Commissioners Office

Please do reply to my previous requests for reviews and requests for information as you are breaking the law as laid down by parliament

Yours faithfully,
Tom Cullen
tomcullen

Dear Hertsmere Borough Council,
By law you should have responded promptly and by 27 January 2015 at the latest and when you consider the request is about your whole attitude towards Freedom of Information Legislation this lack of response only reinforces my belief Hertsmere Borough Council is not open and transparent as all Local Auth.should be

Yours faithfully,

tomcullen

Dear Hertsmere Borough Council,
Further to my telephone conversation with your Head of Legal to-day when he informed me that he carried out reviews but as Hertsmere BC had not replied to me within the 20 working days as laid down by legislation he would not be carrying out a review

The reason I have asked for a review is that I have not received a response within the time frame and as I have been advised you should review this as you are not compliant with the legislation

Yours faithfully,

tomcullen

foi, Hertsmere Borough Council

Dear Mr Cullen

The Council confirms it holds information relevant to your request. However you should be aware that the Council only began keeping statistical information about information requests in the current form with effect from 1 April 2013. Prior to that date information was recorded in a bespoke software system which has now been decommissioned and is no longer held by the Council.

In addition I have also excluded from the response below requests made by you on the grounds that you are already aware of these and of the time taken by the Council to respond.

From 1 April 2013 to 31 December 2014 the total number of requests received by the Council was 1,068 of which 1,053 were responded to within the 20 day limit.

The legislation does not set a time period for the conduct of reviews. However the Council currently aims to complete internal reviews within 20 working days. The Council does not currently monitor the time taken for an internal review to be completed.

Yours sincerely

Information Services

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Dear Hertsmere Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Hertsmere Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'According to FOI legislation you are allowed 20 working days to reply to requests for information'.

I am totally dissatisfied with your response
To -day I once again had to contact the ICO about your FOI response
Please let me have all the information you hold whether it be by Spreadsheet or otherwise on the following and please do not reply by telling me what you have I require and am entitled to see all the information that you hold on the following
Since Jan 2013 to end of March 2015 inclusive the number of FOI requests received by Hertsmere BC [Total including mine ]
As above please let me have the amount of reviews requested if you have this information and also the time frame in which you replied to reviews
Your reply implies that you do not monitor the time taken for reviews my experience of requesting reviews is that you do not do reviews

I repeat please do not tell me how many requests you received show me the evidence that you hold as quite frankly your attitude towards FOI is disgraceful

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a...

Yours faithfully,

tomcullen