Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health and Social Care
39 Victoria Street
London SW1H 0EU
www.gov.uk/dhsc
Sarah
By email to
: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
11 October 2024
Dear Sarah,
Freedom of Information Request Reference FOI-1536441
Thank you for your request dated 10 October, to the Department of Health and Social
Care (DHSC), a copy of which can be found in the accompanying annex.
Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
Please note, under section 8(1) of FOIA, a request for information must comply with three
requirements. It must:
(a) be in writing,
(b) state the name of the applicant and an address for correspondence, and
(c) describes the information requested.
After initial consideration, this request appears to comply with requirements (a) and (c) but
it does not comply with requirement (b) because you have not provided your full name.
We are therefore not required to process your request without information that can later be
referred to, as per section 8(1)(b) of the FOIA. The information we require is your full
name.
As your request has been deemed invalid, we are not obliged to disclose the requested
information at this point and would like to take this opportunity to recommend that any
future FOI submissions adhere to section 8 of the FOIA.
To enable us to meet your request, please resubmit your application in accordance with
the above requirements. We will consider your resubmitted request upon receipt as long
as it meets the requirements stated above.
You will then receive a response from us within the statutory timescale of 20 working
days. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee at this stage that a clarified request will
fall within the FOIA cost limit, or that other exemptions will not apply.
The following guidance may be of assistance:
How to access information from a public authority | ICO
You can find out more about section 8 by reading the extract from the Act available at the
attached link:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/8
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
Annex
-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2024 8:49 PM
To: FreedomofInformation xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Chicken pox and RSV vaccination rollout
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Following the recommendations of the JCVI to develop NHS RSV and chicken pox
vaccination schedules for children, what are the timelines for these programmes to be
rolled out please?
Yours faithfully,
Sarah
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