Dear Mr Watts,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for
information of …..

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the
statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working
day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public
authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the
“Square Mile”, ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a
whole. Please see the following link to a map on the CoL's website, which
shows the area covered:

[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/maps/boundary_map.htm.

The CoL’s port health authority functions extend beyond the City boundary.
For further information please see:
[2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/porthealth.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer

City of London

Tel: 020-7332 1209

[3]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear Mr. Watts,

I write further to your request for information of 23^rd April 2012 and
the City’s reply of the same date.

In your request you asked for information about empty property within the
Surrey County Council area.  The FOIA applies to the City of London as a
local authority, police authority and port health authority. However, the
City of London is the local and police authority for the “Square Mile”, ie
the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole or surrounding
areas. I am therefore unable to provide information about the Surrey
County Council area.

 
If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your
enquiry under the FOIA, please make your complaint in writing to email
address: [email address]. For a link to the CoL’s FOI
complaints procedure, please visit the following page:
[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL’s FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Tel: (01625)
545700. Website: [2]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.

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Yours sincerely,

Access to Information Network Representative
City of London
Website: [3]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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