Email Correspondence between DHSC and Abortion Providers and Royal Colleges on the 9th Feb 2022
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
RE:Email Correspondence between DHSC and Abortion Providers and Royal Colleges on the 9th Feb 2022
Following on from FOI request -1393812
Please can I request all correspondences between the DHSC and abortion providers on the 7th Feb 2022. These should include:
-Abortion Providers (BPAS, British Pregnancy Advisory Service, Marie Stopes UK, Marie Stopes, NUPAS, National Unplanned Pregnancy Advisory Service)
-Royal Colleges (Eg. The Royal College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians, Royal College of Midwives)
-Any other relevant organisation
You may redact names and other personal data of lower-ranking civil servants only. If possible please do not redact names of any heads of staff in either institution.
Yours faithfully,
Christian Hacking
Dear Mr Hacking,
Please find attached the Department of Health and Social Care's response
to your recent FOI request (our ref: FOI-1397895).
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health and Social Care
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Health and Social Care's handling of my FOI request 'Email Correspondence between DHSC and Abortion Providers and Royal Colleges on the 9th Feb 2022'.
In the answering of FOI-1393812 , the department stated "Although we cannot answer your request at the moment, we may be able to answer a refined request within the cost limit. You may wish to consider, for example, reducing the time period, specifying a particular minister, if appropriate, or abortion provider. "
This is exactly what I attempted to do in this FOI and the other 8 I submitted. It therefore seems unfair that, having followed the departments instructions, my latest FOI's were lumped together and refused, with the additional comment that the department will not be answering any more such questions for a following 60 days!
Please can the department answer this one question posed above, and please can the department help me understand where in the law it is prescribed that they don't need to answer future requests for a following 60 days?
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/e...
Yours faithfully,
Christian Hacking
Dear Mr Hacking,
Please find attached the outcome letter to the internal review into the
handling of FOI-1397896.
Please note that initial delivery of this letter was attempted on 1 April.
It recently came to our attention that that email delivery failed due to a
technical error, hence this redelivery attempt.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
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