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Dear Mr Harry,

Thank you for your request of 29 August 2023 in which you asked for the
following information:

As per my delayed FOI response
[1]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...,
the County Council has indicated that: "A decision was reached by the
monitoring officer to postpone the Cowley consultation until after the
pre-election period."

Kindly provide an explanation for the reasoning behind the monitoring
officer's choice to implement this delay. Could you confirm whether this
decision was made independently by the monitoring officer or involved
input from other council members or councilors? If decision to delay
consultation were conducted with other councilors, please specify who they
are and reasons behind this delay.

Furthermore, I am interested in understanding the process by which the
consultation date was determined and the individual responsible for making
this decision. Additionally, could you please inform me if any councilor
played a role in selecting the consultation date? Should the monitoring
officer have engaged with any council members prior to arriving at this
decision concerning the date, kindly provide details of the specific
councillors who were consulted, along with the nature of their responses
with respect to the chosen date.

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Renata

Renata Malinowski

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Voice of the Customer Team

Customers and Organisational Development

Oxfordshire County Council

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Our reference: 22123 FOI

Dear Mich Harry

Thank you for your request of 30^th August 2023 in which you asked for the
following information:

Your Request

As per my delayed FOI response
[1]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...,
the County Council has indicated that: "A decision was reached by the
monitoring officer to postpone the Cowley consultation until after the
pre-election period."

Kindly provide an explanation for the reasoning behind the monitoring
officer's choice to implement this delay. Could you confirm whether this
decision was made independently by the monitoring officer or involved
input from other council members or councilors? If decision to delay
consultation were conducted with other councilors, please specify who they
are and reasons behind this delay.

Furthermore, I am interested in understanding the process by which the
consultation date was determined and the individual responsible for making
this decision. Additionally, could you please inform me if any councilor
played a role in selecting the consultation date? Should the monitoring
officer have engaged with any council members prior to arriving at this
decision concerning the date, kindly provide details of the specific
councillors who were consulted, along with the nature of their responses
with respect to the chosen date.

Our Response

On behalf of Oxfordshire County Council, I apologise for the delay in
responding to your request.

The monitoring officer made the decision so that the consultation avoided
the pre-election period of heightened sensitivity. This was an independent
decision of the Monitoring Officer.

The timescales for engagement, pre-consultation and consultation were set
out by a Cabinet decision of Tuesday 19^th July 2022, available online
[2]here.

The original consultation date was set by the business area responsible
for delivering the work. This was determined by their available resources
to undertake the required work.

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Oxfordshire County Council

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Telephone: 0303 123 1113

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you could use the reference number given at the top of this email.

Yours sincerely,

James Willoughby

Access to Information Team Leader

Law & Governance

Customers, Culture and Corporate Services

Oxfordshire County Council, New Road, Oxford,  OX1 1ND

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