Dear Cabinet Office,

It has been reported that the Cabinet Office has spent more than £800K with polling companies between January and May of this year.

Please would you provide the following information for each poll that has been commissioned by the Cabinet Office since 1st Jan 2020:

List of survey questions and possible answers.
Number of times poll was conducted at time of your response.
Is the poll to be conducted again in future (yes/no).
If yes, expected number of times poll to be conducted in future.
Start and end date for each time poll was conducted at time of your response.
Company that was commissioned to conduct poll.
Total cost associated with poll (combined for all dates poll has been conducted.

I also request that you release the data tables for the responses for these polls however, I expect you will say these are exempt on some basis. If you feel that the data tables of responses can be published then please do so but if you feel they would be exempt for any reason then please explain that exemption but also respond specifically to the list of metadata items above also.

Yours faithfully,

Robert Davidson

Dear Cabinet Office,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Cabinet Office's handling of my FOI request 'Cabinet office polling surveys'.

First - the response from your office was delayed by months, well beyond legal guidelines and your office made no updates or apologies during this period or in the final response.

Second - the response uses an exemption based on the idea that the data/information requested is related to ongoing policy development. This implies that every single poll conducted by the Cabinet Office is related to policy that is still in development. This seems highly unlikely. For example, if the Cabinet Office had conducted polling prior to launching the famous 'meal deal' then this bit of policy has been developed, launched and completed - any polling associated with that policy should not be exempt for the reason given.

What I am asking for then, is a review of the time delay and explanation of what went wrong and why no updates were sent during the period, and an explanation regarding whether every poll conducted this year is related to policy that is still in development or if there are some polls that might be released/published in line with my original request.

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

Yours faithfully,

Robert Davidson