Closure of Advisory Board on Naturalisation and Integration

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like you to make available, under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, any documents, reports, emails and minutes of meetings or other relevant materials of discussions or other business relating to the ceasing of the activities of the Advisory Board on Naturalisation and Integration, including but not limited to:

* Whether and how the functions and aims of the Advisory Board on Naturalisation and Integration were to be scrapped or otherwise undertaken by alternate arrangements? (for example, who was to be responsible for administering departmental responsibilities for the Life in the UK test? Who "advises on ways in which existing language and citizenship resources and support services might be developed and on future development of study programmes"?)

* What feedback was sought from internal sources and outside persons and organisations concerning the ceasing of the Advisory Board on Naturalisation and Integration?

* What feedback was received, whether invited or not, concerning this decision, including but not limited to Sir Bernard Crick?

* What were the costs and benefits foreseen of ceasing the Advisory Board on Naturalisation and Integration?

Please focus on supplying documents related to the above questions if it will cost too much to supply more than that, otherwise I expect the more general request to be fulfilled.

Thank you very much for your help, and don't hesitate to ask me for clarifications if something is not clear in my request.

Yours faithfully,

Guy Freeman

Dear Freedom Of Information Team ( IND ),

Thank you very much for the update. Is there a timeframe for when you expect me to receive the information by? I appreciate any co-operation in this matter.

Yours sincerely,

Guy Freeman

Dear Sir or Madam,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's handling of my FOI request 'Closure of Advisory Board on Naturalisation and Integration'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cl...

By law, my request should under most conditions have been answered by the 19th of August 2009. Two months have passed since that date. I am very disappointed that a Government department considers it acceptable to break its own laws with impunity, which is prima facie the situation here.

I expect a full response taking the matter seriously. And of course, I still await the response to my original request.

Yours faithfully,

Guy Freeman

Dear Chris,

Thank you for your response. I appreciate receiving the information, but I just want to point out that you can't have sent the information on the 20th of August, because I received correspondence on the 25th of August (see http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cl... for the history of the correspondence regarding this enquiry) saying that the information was not ready.

I might be back in touch if I have further queries to make. In the meantime, thank you once more for your latest email.

Yours sincerely,

Guy Freeman