Thank you for contacting the Leeds City Council Information Management &
Governance Requests team. We confirm that we have received your
correspondence. 
 
If you have submitted a Freedom of Information or Environmental
Information Regulation request- we will respond to your request in
accordance with the appropriate legislation within 20 working days. While
you wait, you may wish to check information published by the Council on
the [1]Data Mill North to see if the information you have requested is
already available.
 
If you have submitted an access to information request or other
information rights request- we will respond to your request in accordance
with the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Please note in order to
process your request, we require confirmation of your identity via a
copy of one of the following forms:

• Driving Licence
• Passport
• Birth Certificate
• Council Tax bill
• Utility bill 

If we require further information from you before we are able to process
your request we will contact you directly to request this.  If you would
like more information on how Leeds City Council process these types of
requests, information is available on our [2]website  

If you are a healthcare or social work professional, or a member of the
police force making a request for disclosure of information for the
purpose of safeguarding or the prevention, investigation, detection or
prosecution of criminal offences – we will respond to your request as soon
as possible. Please note we are currently only able to offer viewings of
records on a Tuesday or a Thursday.

For all other queries – we will look into your request and respond as
appropriate.

For information about what we do with personal data please see our
[3]privacy notice.
 
Yours sincerely
 
Information Management & Governance – Requests Team

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Dear C D Johnson,

Re: Environmental Information Regulations Request MONAGGFIP 

I refer to your request to the council received on 20/06/2023 for the
following:

Dear Sir or Madam, Under Freedom of Information, I would be grateful if
you could provide the following information: How many insurance liability
claims have you received in the last three calendar years (2020, 2021,
2022) related to surface water flooding (i.e. flash flooding)? For each
year, please provide the number of claims received and the number paid
out, including the total cost to the council and insurer. Yours
faithfully, C D Johnson

We will respond to your request in accordance with the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004, within 20 working days, from the day after
your request was received. We will therefore aim to respond to your
request by 18/07/2023.

For reference, Leeds City Council publish a wealth of information which
you can access at: Welcome to LEEDS.GOV.UK - Leeds City Council  and Data
Mill North – Open Data for the North of England .

If your request for information is considered and deemed as a 'business as
usual' request, it will be responded to by the appropriate Service within
the Council.

If you have questions about this request, please contact us at
[Leeds City Council request email].

Yours sincerely,

Dior

Information Management and Governance,
Integrated Digital Services

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Dear Sir/Madam,

Re: Environmental Information Regulations Request - MONAGGFIP

I refer to your correspondence to the council and your request for the
following:

Under Freedom of Information, I would be grateful if you could provide the
following information: How many insurance liability claims have you
received in the last three calendar years (2020, 2021, 2022) related to
surface water flooding (i.e. flash flooding)? For each year, please
provide the number of claims received and the number paid out, including
the total cost to the council and insurer. Having looked in to this
matter, I can advise that the Council does not hold centralised
information concerning claims made with regard to surface water flooding.
I can advise that across the period in question, the Council received 200
water damage claims, however, the only way ascertain whether or not these
had any relation to surface water flooding would be to read each claim
manually. This would be an immensely length task which, if considered
under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, would take over the
appropriate limit of 18 hours of officer time to complete. I am, as such
of the view that it is necessary to except this information from release
under Reg 12(4)(b) of the Environmental Information Regulations on the
basis that it constitutes a 'manifestly unreasonable' request.

When consider excepting any information under the Regulations, I am
conscious that the public interest test must be considered and that,
furthermore, there is a presumption in faovur of disclosure in this
regard. In considering this matter, however, whilst I can appreciate that
there may be a small public interest (from a transparency perspective) in
knowing the number of claims received in respect of flash flooding, the
much greater public interest lies in officers of the authority being able
to undertake their core functions without disruption. As such, I am of the
view that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in
maintaining this exception outweights the public interest in the
disclosure of this information. 

I trust that this response is satisfactory. Under Regulation 11, however,
you are entitled to make representations to us if it appears that we have
failed to comply with a requirement of the Regulations in relation to your
request. Representations must be made to us no later than 40 working days
after the date you believe we failed to comply with such a requirement. 

We will then consider your representations and supporting evidence and
decide if we have complied, notifying you of our decision as soon as
possible, and no later than 40 working days after the date of receipt of
your representations. 

Under Regulation 18, you are then entitled to apply to the Information
Commissioner for a decision as to whether, in any specified respect, your
request has not been dealt with in accordance with parts 2 and 3 of the
Regulations. 

Should you wish to contact the Commissioner’s Office then you can contact
the Commissioner via their website at [1]www.ico.gov.uk

I trust that this is self-explanatory.  If you have any queries please
contact me on 0113 3784251, or by return email to [Leeds City Council request email].

Yours Sincerley,

Richard Brook,
Principal Information Governance Officer,
Information Requests Management,
Information Management and Governance,
Integrated Digital Service.

t: 0113 37 87118
e: [email address]

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