Communications with the ICO

The request was partially successful.

Dear Home Office,

please could you provide me with any records you hold on communications with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) regarding the Home Office's timeliness in responding to FOI requests and Internal Review requests.

To be clear, I do not refer to communications on individual s50 complaints to the ICO but to any non-case-specific communications with the ICO on this. These records would likely be held within the Information Access Team which deals with Freedom of Information.

Please restrict your search to records from 01 January 2017 onwards. Please include letters, emails and records of meetings / phone calls in your consideration.

Yours faithfully,

M Bimmler

FOI Requests, Home Office

Mr Bimmler,

Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.

This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 46032). We will aim to send you a full response by 28/11/2017 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you,

J Douglas
FOI Requests
Home Office

FOI Responses, Home Office

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Dear Mr Bimmler

 

Please find attached an update relating to your request for information,
case 46032

 

Yours Sincerely

 

M Riddle

Information Rights Team, Knowledge and Information Management Unit

Performance, Assurance and Governance Directorate

Capabilities & Resources

Lower Ground floor, Seacole Building

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

T: +44 (0)20 7035 4848

 

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FOI Responses, Home Office

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Dear Mr Bimmler

 

Please find attached the Home Office response to your request for
information, case 46032

 

Yours Sincerely

 

M Riddle

Knowledge and Information Management Unit

Performance and Risk Directorate

4th Floor Peel

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

T: +44 (0)20 7035 4848

 

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Dear Mr Riddle,

many thanks for your response and for the material disclosed.

I would just have one question (and for the avoidance of doubt, this is not an Internal Review request at this stage):

Has the s31 exemption you mentioned in your cover letter only been applied to redact certain parts of documents released or have any documents been entirely withheld under s31? If the latter is the case, could you please inform me which documents have been entirely withheld (e.g. “30 June letter from X to Y on Z”)?

Yours sincerely,

M Bimmler

FOI Responses, Home Office

Dear Mr Bimmler

 

In response to your email of 29 December 2017, I can inform you that no
documents have been entirely withheld under section 31(1)(g).  31(1)(g)
was applied to redact certain parts of the documents that were released.

 

Yours Sincerely

 

M Riddle

Knowledge and Information Management Unit

Performance and Risk Directorate

4th Floor Peel

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

T: +44 (0)20 7035 4848

 

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Dear Mr Riddle,

many thanks, in that case I am happy to confirm that this request can now be closed.

Yours sincerely,

M Bimmler