Dear Mr Katko,

We have considered your request and our view is that your request is
invalid. Your request contains a series of questions rather than specific
requests for information.

The Freedom of Information Act gives people the right to access recorded
information. The Act does not give people a right to be given answers to
questions that they would like to put to a local authority if this would
mean creating new information or would involve giving opinion or judgement
that is not already recorded.

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 specific request for recorded information held by Haringey
Council.

Guidance given by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) states 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."

The ICO has produced guidance for people who wish to make a request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act; you can access it by
following this link:
[1]https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/offici...

Our web site contains detailed information about Haringey Council’s
structure and services. You may want to look at the information that is
available on the site and consider submitting a specific request for
copies of information held by the council. Alternatively, we can direct
your query to the appropriate council team to be dealt with as a normal
‘course of business' enquiry. Please advise how you would like to proceed.

Please note that we will take no further action on this request until we
receive clarification from you.

Kind regards,

Feedback & Information Governance

Shared Service Centre | Central Team

Haringey Council 

10th Floor, Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London N22 7TR

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