Address Register - spending and outputs
Dear Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy,
In the budget of 2016, the Chancellor announced that there would be made available £5million for the purpose of investigating an 'open address register.'
As per a publicly available FOI request on Whatdotheyknow.com, it appears as though that money was provided to BEIS and that BEIS admits they have details of how it was spent and have materials such as recommendations, reports and other documents that were produced as outputs from this process.
To see that previous FOI request, please see https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/m...
At that time (Oct 2017) BEIS refused to publish any information, even summary spending plans, because of exemption clauses within FOI legislation: ongoing policy making and potential damage to commercial interests.
I would like to create a new request for similar information in the hopes that the policy making process may have been completed, almost 3 years after the initial announcement. Would you please publish any documentation that could be described as a summary of recommendations or as a draft (or final) policy on this issue of an open address register?
If that is still protected by 'ongoing policy' clauses, please would you reply with a timescale for this project to be completed?
Yours faithfully,
Robert Davidson
BEIS ref: FOI2019/01619
Dear Robert Davidson
Thank you for your request for information which was received on 30th
January. Your request has been passed on to the appropriate official at
the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to deal
with.
Your request is being considered under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and we will reply at the latest by 27th February.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Information
Rights Unit at BEIS. Please remember to quote the reference number above
in any future communications.
Kind regards,
Information Rights Unit
Information Rights Unit | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial
Strategy | 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET | www.gov.uk/beis |
[email address] |
Dear [email address] on behalf of FOI Requests,
You appear to be late in responding to my FOI request
You can see full details of the request and your original acknowledgement here:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a...
Yours sincerely,
Robert Davidson
Dear Mr Davidson,
Thank you for your email of 28 February 2019 below regarding your FOI request, our ref: FOI2019/01619.
We apologise for the delay in responding to your request. Our response is in the final stages of clearance and we hope to be able to issue this to you shortly.
We are processing your request as a matter of importance and apologise for any inconvenience the delay is causing.
Your Sincerely,
Information Rights & Records Unit
Dear Mr Davidson,
Please find attached our response to your information request, our reference FOI2019/01619.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Information Rights & Records Unit at BEIS.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
Yours sincerely,
Information Rights & Records Unit
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
www.gov.uk/beis
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