Clarification of FOI re Infrastructure Act 2015

Dear Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy,

I have just read your response to a FOI from Colin Watson

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/h...

"To reassure you, the definition of hydraulic fracturing used is set out in the Infrastructure Act
2015 and further defined in the Landward Regulations. These define associated hydraulic
fracturing as using either 10,000 cubic meters of fluid in total or 1,000 cubic meters of fluid at
each stage."

Can you confirm whether it is supposed to be "each stage" or "any stage"?

Yours faithfully,

Lorraine Inglis

Lorraine Inglis

Dear Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy,
This is long overdue, Please respond

Many thanks

Yours faithfully,

Lorraine Inglis

Lorraine Inglis

Dear Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's handling of my FOI request 'Clarification of FOI re Infrastructure Act 2015'.

I have already sent a follow-up email with no response.

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,

Lorraine Inglis

FOI Requests, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Dear Ms Inglis,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 17/07/2018. Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding.

Although you have indicated that you wish to make a request for information, further to your 'right to know' contained in section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), your email contains an enquiry rather than a request for recorded information held by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Where a 'request for information' contains an enquiry, rather than a specific request for copies of information held by BEIS, we deal with such requests as a normal course of business' enquiry rather than a formal request for information under the FOIA.

This is in accordance with guidance from the Information Commissioners Office which advises that ‘Requests which are not for recorded information, but instead ask questions, such as "please explain your policy on x" or "please explain your decision to do y" are not requests for recorded information and therefore should be treated as routine correspondence.".

Your e-mail has been passed to the appropriate team in the Department who will respond shortly.

Kind regards

Information Rights Unit
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Dear FOI Requests,

Can you please provide an update to this request please.

Yours sincerely,

Lorraine Inglis