Evacuation plans

The request was refused by HM Prison Service.

Dear Sir/Madam,
Dear Sir/Madam,

Please treat this as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

What plans do you have in place should the evacuation of any of your prisons become necessary? If such plans are site-specific, please provide information about Belmarsh and Wormwood Scrubs.

Yours faithfully,
Steve Elibank

Dear Sir/Madam,

Your reply is now a few days over the deadline; consequently, your
organisation is breaking the law.

If I do not receive a comprehensive response within three days, a
complaint will be lodged with the Information Commissioner.

Steve Elibank

Steve Elibank

Dear Sir/Madam,

Your reply is now a few days over the deadline; consequently, your
organisation is breaking the law.

If I do not receive a comprehensive response within three days, a
complaint will be lodged with the Information Commissioner's Office.

Steve Elibank

Data Access & Compliance Unit, HM Prison Service

Dear Mr Elibank, please can you provide me with your case reference
number or a copy of your original request so I can track the status of
your request.

Thanks

Regards

Data Access and Compliance Unit
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Post point 6.25
London
SW1H 9AJ
Email [email address]

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Steve Elibank

Dear sir/madam;
I'm afraid I never received a reference number, but my full correspondence history can be seen at http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ev...

Regards,
Steve Elibank

Data Access & Compliance Unit, HM Prison Service

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Data Access & Compliance Unit, HM Prison Service

Dear Mr Elibank, Thank you for this your request was sent to our
Ministeral correspondence unit who would allocate it to the approprrate
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I have forwarded on your original email and your email on today to them.

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Price, Thomas [NOMS],

Dear Mr Elibank,

I have been passed your request regarding evacuation plans at Belmarsh and
Wormwood Scrubs -

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please treat this as a request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

What plans do you have in place should the evacuation of any of
your prisons become necessary? If such plans are site-specific,
please provide information about Belmarsh and Wormwood Scrubs.

Yours faithfully,
Steve Elibank

I have been advised by the Ministry of Justice Data Access and Compliance
Unit that this does not qualify for an answer under the Freedom of
Information Act as it is not a request for recorded information. It has
been handled as a piece of "Treat Official" correspondence instead.

We do not release information about the evacuation of prisons as to do
would pose a risk to security.

Yours sincerely,

Thomas Price
Directorate of High Security

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Steve Elibank

Dear HM Prison Service,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of HM Prison Service's handling of my FOI request 'Evacuation plans'.

Not only was my response late, but its logic is flawed. I asked for information about plans to evacuate prisons in the event of an emergency. I assume that this information is recorded, rather than simply being transmitted orally from one generation of prison-guards to the next! Therefore, please provide it as requested.

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

Please reply to confirm that you are working on this.

Yours faithfully,
Steve Elibank

Dear Price, Thomas [NOMS],

It is now almost four months since I requested Internal Review. The Information Commissioner considers that you should carry out such reviews within 20 working days. Oh dear.

Please see http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ev... for the entire thread of correspondence and provide me with an answer immediately, unless you wish to be reported.

Steve Elibank

Chowdhury, Jushna, HM Prison Service

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Dear Mr Elibank, please see response to your request.

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Jushna Chowdhury
Data Access and Compliance Unit
6^TH floor 102 Petty France.
Post point 6.25
London
SW1H 9AJ
Tele 020 3334 2710
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Dear Mr Chowdhury,

My request was for any recorded evacuation plans that you hold: clearly a request for recorded information. I look forward to receiving the results of your Internal Review, therefore.

Steve Elibank

Over, Darren \(ARU\), HM Prison Service

Freedom of Information Request FOI/67350/10

Data Access & Compliance Unit
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29-SEP-10 Our Ref:FOI/67350/10

Dear Steve Elibank,

SUBJECT: Freedom of Information Request

Thank you for your correspondence of September 28, 2010, in which you
asked for evacuation Plans for HMP Belmarsh and HMP Wormwood Scrubs
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) from the Ministry of
Justice (MoJ).

You will receive a response from us by October 25, 2010. Your request
has been passed to the appropriate business unit within the MoJ, and
they will write to you with their decision by this date.

The FOIA does provide a number of exemptions. A qualified exemption
requires that before relying on it we must consider the public interest
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20 working days to respond. This is because in such circumstances we are
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qualified exemption(s), we will write to you and inform you of the
revised date you can expect to receive a response to your request.

If you have any queries regarding this request please do not hesitate to
contact us. Please quote ref: FOI/67350/10 in all future correspondence.

Yours sincerely,

Darren Over
(Sent on behalf of Mosun Hassan)
Data Access and Compliance Unit

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Jones, Emma [NOMS],

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Emma Jones
Directorate of High Security
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London SW1H 9EX

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