Charging Policy for EIR

The request was successful.

Dear Cornwall Council,

Please would you confirm whether you have a charging policy for requests made under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR). If you do have a charging policy for EIR, please provide along with the number of EIR requests received in 2015-2016 broken down by month, and indicate which of these requests were charged for.

Yours faithfully,

Lorelai Myer

Cornwall Council

Thank you for your Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) request - Reference IAR - 101002896255. In normal circumstances we will provide a response within 20 working days of receiving your request.

In the majority of cases, the response will be sent to you from Cornwall Council. However, the Council has a number of wholly owned arms length companies and where the information is held by these companies, the request will be administered and responded to by the relevant company. This includes Cornwall Housing, CORMAC and Cornwall Development Company (CDC).

There may be some instances where we will need to contact you in the order to clarify parts of your request, or where the cost of dealing with your request is excessive due to the time involved in collating the information. If this is the case we will help you to narrow the request to take it under any cost limit. Under EIR Regulations, there are also instances where a charge may be applied for information that is not required to be routinely published. We will notify you if this is the case.

There may also be a small number of occasions where we may need to extend the 20 working day deadline. We will inform you if this is likely. More information can also be found on our Freedom of information pages using the following link:
http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?...

Cornwall Council and its arms length companies are committed to open and transparent government and provide information to members of the public about all aspects of the Council and these companies. Over 4000 requests for information are received each year and it is estimated that the cost to the Council and its arms length companies of dealing with each request ranges between £150 and £350 to administer. You may be able to find the information by checking previous responses using
http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?...
or checking the Council?s website at www.cornwall.gov.uk.

Therefore if you do subsequently find the information you require by this method and no longer wish us to process your request, please let us know.

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Customers, Communities and Strategy - Freedom of Information Mail, Cornwall Council

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Dear Lorelai Myer

 

Please find attached a letter formally enclosing the Council’s response to
your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. If
you have difficulty in opening the attachment(s), please contact me and I
will send you a copy by post.

 

Kind regards

 

Pete Cokell

Freedom of Information Officer

Customers and Communities

01209 614399

[1][email address]

 

This e-mail and attachments are intended for above named only and may be
confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action
based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please e-mail us
immediately at [email address].

Please note that this e-mail may be subject to recording and/or monitoring
in accordance with the relevant legislation and may need to be disclosed
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information
Regulations 2004.

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this e-mail and any attachments are virus free. The Authority will not
accept liability for any damage caused by a virus.

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