BID to the DfT for funds for temporary transport infrastructure
Clive Carter made this Freedom of Information request to Haringey Borough Council This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Haringey Borough Council,
A possible bid to The DfT for funds
for temporary transport infrastructure
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1. Did Haringey receive information from the Department of Transport concerning an offer or allocation of money for temporary transport infrastructure please (i.e. for cycling and/or pavement-widening and/or low-traffic neighbourhoods)?
2. If such a bid was made, I understand that it should have been made on or by Friday, 5 June 2020.
3. Did the council bid for the allocation please?
4. If so, then please provide a copy of the council's bid for funds as offered by the Government.
5. If so, [re 3], has the council received confirmation or other information in response?
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Clive Carter
Dear Mr Carter,
Freedom of Information / Environmental Information Regulations Request:
LBH/9923220
I acknowledge your request for information received on 08 June 2020.
This information request will be dealt with in accordance with the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations and we
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Dear Haringey Borough Council,
Emergency Active Travel Fund bids
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According to the All Party Parliamentary Committee on walking and cycling, each council’s bid(s) to the DfT for Emergency Active Travel Funds was scored out of a possible 20 points.
It would be helpful for the public if answers to the two extra questions below, were included in the response to this current enquiry, as they are directly related. I hope that it will not be necessary to treat them as a separate enquiry.
(1) Is it possible now to share with the public what Haringey's bid or bids scored?
(2) How much money did the Council received for each bid please?
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Clive Carter
Dear Mr Carter,
Thank you for your email.
I have asked the service to respond to your additional email in their reply due under reference LBH/9923220.
Yours sincerely,
Simon Dingomal
Corporate Feedback Officer
Dear Mr Carter,
Re: Freedom of Information Act Request ref: LBH/9923220
Thank you for your request for information received on 08 June 2020, in
which you asked for the following:
1. Did Haringey receive information from the Department of Transport
concerning an offer or allocation of money for temporary transport
infrastructure please (i.e. for cycling and/or pavement-widening and/or
low-traffic neighbourhoods)?
2. If such a bid was made, I understand that it should have been made on
or by Friday, 5 June 2020.
3. Did the council bid for the allocation please?
4. If so, then please provide a copy of the council's bid for funds as
offered by the Government.
5. If so, [re 3], has the council received confirmation or other
information in response?
On 30 June 2020 you asked the following additional statement and
questions:
According to the All Party Parliamentary Committee on walking and cycling,
each council’s bid(s) to the DfT for Emergency Active Travel Funds was
scored out of a possible 20 points.
6. Is it possible now to share with the public what Haringey's bid or bids
scored?
7. How much money did the Council received for each bid please?
My response is as follows:
1. Haringey did receive information in relation to the offer of funding
2. I can confirm that the bid was submitted to the DfT on Friday 5 June
2020.
3. Yes.
4. The Council’s plans and costs submitted to DfT is available to view
under ‘Bid 4’ at
[1]https://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-road...
5. The Council received confirmation from the DfT on Friday 26 June 2020
that it had been awarded £100,000 for the bid.
6. The Council does not hold this information
7. The Council received confirmation from the DfT on Friday 26 June 2020
that it had been awarded £100,000 for the bid
I hope this answers all the questions you raised in your FOI, if you are
unhappy with how we have responded to your request you can ask us to
conduct an Internal Review. If so, please contact the [2]Corporate
Feedback Team. (Please note you should do so within two months of this
response.)
Yours sincerely,
Maurice Richards
Transport Planning Team Manager
T. 020 8489 5575
M. 07971668536
E. [3][email address]
Housing, Regeneration & Planning, 6th Floor South, River Park House, Wood
Green, London, N22 8HQ
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Dear Haringey Borough Council,
LBH/9923220
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Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Haringey Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'BID to the DfT for funds for temporary transport infrastructure'.
1. On 30 June, I asked two additional questions, closely related to the initial request. I also asked that they not be treated as a separate enquiry that otherwise would of course, generate delay.
2. The Corporate Feedback Officer (Simon Dingomal) replied promptly on 1 July, with:
3. "I have asked the service to respond to your additional email in their reply due under reference LBH/9923220."
4. The FoI reply I received purports to respond to the two additional questions (six and seven), but they are unsatisfactory for the following reasons:
5. The response to question six, was a claim that "The Council does not hold the information".
6. However, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cycling and Walking stated on Jun 26 that "The letter to councils from the DfT with the allocations for tranche one of the Emergency Active Travel Fund, said that: “authorities received either 100%, 75%, 50% or 25% of their bid allocations based on the extent to which they aligned with the criteria.”
7. Does the council perhaps need to look a little harder for the letter from the Department for Transport?
8. The Cabinet Member for Highways (Cllr Chandwani) stated in writing on 12 June that there were a total of "18 bids for walking and cycling". The Cabinet Member for Strategic Transport (Cllr Hearn) has since 12 May referred to bids (plural). My additional questions six and seven refer to "bids", plural. This appears to have been overlooked.
9. Can the Council please reconcile the discrepancy between the response so far relating to "the bid" (which bid?) and the 18 (eighteen) bids quoted by the Cabinet Member and the 19 bids referred to on the web link?
10. I would like a clear, complete and unambiguous answer on this matter of significant public interest.
Thank you.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/b...
Yours faithfully,
Clive Carter
Dear Mr Carter,
Internal Review regarding Freedom of Information request reference
LBH/9923220
Thank you for your email received on 13 July 2020.
Your request for an Internal Review has been logged with the reference
LBH/10045320. Please quote this reference number on any further
correspondence.
We will now review the response you have been sent to the above request
and I aim to let you know the outcome of our investigation by 10 August
2020. If I need longer, I will write to let you know the reason and when
you can expect a full reply.
At the current time our response may be delayed due to urgent operational
responses to dealing with Covid-19 priorities. We apologise for any
inconvenience this may cause, we do remain committed to undertaking the
review and will respond as soon as we are able.
Should our response to your request breach the statutory time-frame and
you remain unhappy with our response you have the right to complain to the
Information Commissioners Office. You can contact them at
[email address]. Information about their services is on their website:
www.ico.org.uk
Yours sincerely,
Claire Gilmour
Corporate Feedback Team
Dear Mr Carter,
Please find attached my response to your request for a review of FOI ref.
LBH/9923220.
Yours sincerely,
Claire Gilmour
Corporate Feedback Officer
Haringey Council
Level 3, Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London N22 7TR
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