FCO Funding of the Atlantic Council

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Foreign and Commonwealth Office should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

I note on the Atlantic Council website that the FCO donated between $250,000 - $999,999 for the "fiscal year 2016."

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/support/s...

I wish to see all recorded documents held by the FCO that relate to funding/financial donations, etc of the Atlantic Council for the past two years - 2017 and 2016.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Smith

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dear Mr Smith,

 

Thank you for your FOI request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
It has been assigned a unique reference number (above) and has been passed
to the relevant section within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deal
with. They will be in touch with you should your request need
clarification.

 

We received your request on 23 April 2018 and will aim to respond within
20 working days, following date of receipt.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Central FoI Unit

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

 

 

 

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Dear Mr Smith,

 

Please find attached reply to your FOI request 0453-18.

 

Regards

 

Central FOI Unit

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

 

 

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Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
By law you should have responded to my request by now.

Plrase send me a full response providing the answers to my request for information.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Smith

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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Dear Mr Smith,

 

Please find attached reply to your FOI request 0453-18. I apologise for
the length of time it is taking to respond to your request.

 

Regards

 

Central FOI Unit

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Foreign and Commonwealth Office's handling of my FOI request 'FCO Funding of the Atlantic Council'.

You have taken far longer than is considered reasonable to carry out the public interest test in relation to the qualified exemption you have engaged.

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

Yours faithfully,

Mr Smith

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dear Mr Smith,

Thank you for your request for an Internal Review of our response to your FOI Request Ref 0453-18. It has been passed to the relevant department within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deal with and they will respond to you with the outcome of the review.

We received your request on 22 June2018 and will aim to respond within 20 working days.

Yours sincerely

Central FOI Unit
Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Foreign and Commonwealth Office's handling of my FOI request 'FCO Funding of the Atlantic Council'.

The response to my request is long overdue. Please respond now. I intend to complain to the ICO if no response is received by close of business today.

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

Yours faithfully,

Mr Smith

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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Dear Mr Smith,

 

I am writing with regard to your FOI request 0453-18 and the subsequent
request for an Internal Review of the handling of this request.

 

I have attached the substantive reply to your request about donations to
the Atlantic Council. I am very sorry that it has taken such a long time
to send you the reply, and that we failed to keep you updated about the
progress of your request. We aim to reply to all requests within the
statutory time limits. However, unfortunately, on this occasion we failed
to achieve that aim.

 

Regards

 

Central FOI Unit

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

 

 

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Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

On 22 June you responded by advising:

 

"I can confirm that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office does hold information falling within the terms of your request."

 
You advised that the information in scope came under section 27 – international relations and you would need to carry out a PIT in order to release or withhold the information.

Oddly, the response came unsigned from somebody in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Department.

 On 15 August you responded by totally contradicting yourself and stated that this information is "Not held" by FCO.

Either you are lying now or you lied in your initial response. Consequently I am not convinced that you do not hold any information in scope of my request.

 
I suggest you start by looking at those documents you advised me on 22 June that you do hold and providing them to me.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Smith

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dear Mr Smith,

Thank you for your request for an Internal Review of our response to your FOI Request Ref 0453-18. It has been passed to the relevant department within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deal with and they will respond to you with the outcome of the review.

We received your request on 20 August 2018 and will aim to respond within 20 working days.

Yours sincerely

Central FOI Unit
Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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