Civic honours
Dear Vale of White Horse District Council,
Please provide me with a list of individuals, groups of people and/or bodies, who have been awarded the freedom of your council area, or any similar award or designation.
By similar award or designation, I mean an honorary civic award bestowed by the council on an individual, company, group or military unit with the intent of recognising their contribution to the local area. This would exclude formal civic offices eg Mayor. I am interested in receiving the information for any period for which you hold the records.
Yours faithfully,
Helen Cross
Dear Helen Cross
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request, which was received by Vale of White Horse District Council on 5 July 2023.
Please accept this email as confirmation that your request has been received and is being considered by the relevant department and that a response will be sent to you within 20 working days, subject to the information not being exempt and subject to any need for clarification.
The deadline for this will be 2 August 2023
The reference number for this request is Vale 23/316
I trust that this email is sufficient to assure you that your request is being dealt with. However, should you have any queries in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact the FOI team at [Vale of White Horse District Council request email]
Kind regards
Information Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Vale of White Horse District Council
www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk
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Vale of White Horse District Council
Dear Helen,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request to South Oxfordshire
District Council (Ref. 23/369) and Vale of White Horse District Council
(Ref. 23/316).
Under Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 2000 Act) you
are entitled to be informed in writing whether the council holds the
information specified in your request and, if that is the case, to have
that information communicated to you unless any of the statutory
exemptions apply. I have considered your request and can confirm we do
hold some of the information asked and I do not believe any of the
statutory exemptions apply to your request. Please find below the
information you requested (where available).
• Searching through the South Oxfordshire District Council minutes I
have been unable to find any examples of the freedom of the district
being awarded.
• Searching through the Vale of White Horse District Council minutes I
have found one example where freedom of the district was awarded.
Please see this webpage for the detail:
[1]http://democratic.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/ie...
Please treat this as the councils’ formal response under the 2000 Act. If
you are not satisfied with the decision I have made in response to your
request, you can make a request for an internal review by emailing
[2][Vale of White Horse District Council request email] within 40 working days from the date we issued
our response. If you remain dissatisfied after following that procedure,
you have the right under Section 50 of the 2000 Act to complain to the
Information Commissioner if you feel the council has not dealt with your
request properly. You can contact the Commissioner at Wycliffe House,
Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF (telephone number: 0303 123 1113).
You can also find further information at [3]www.ico.org.uk.
Regards
Steve Culliford
Democratic Services Team Leader
Legal and Democratic
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils
[4][email address]
References
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1. http://democratic.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/ie...
2. mailto:[Vale of White Horse District Council request email]
3. http://www.ico.org.uk/
4. mailto:[email address]
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