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Dear Yijun Chen

We acknowledge with thanks your request for information held by Bolton
Council received at this office on 17/03/2022_.

This request will be considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
/ Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004 as appropriate to your
request.

This may take up to 20 working days to be processed (although we will
endeavour to provide the information as quickly as possible).

Please be advised that if an exemption applies to the information that you
have requested, the statutory period may be exceeded in accordance with
the provisions of the act.

Please retain the reference number RFI 010212 for any future enquiries
regarding this matter.

Many thanks

The Information Governance Team
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Dear Yijun Chen

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Further to your request for information received at this office on 17
March 2022, I write to advise you that some of the information that you
have requested is not held by Bolton Council.

You Requested
This is a request for records under the Freedom of Information Act (2000).
I am requesting the record about document redaction in detail. In
particular, I ask for: 1. Copies of any business process, manual,
procedure or policy concerning document redaction in your organization. 2.
If recorded, please indicate the FTE (staff time) spent on document
redaction by your organization per year. I am only interested in the most
recent figure for this. 3. If recorded, please provide the expenditure on
document redaction per year. Again, I am only interested in the most
recent figure for this. 4. If recorded, please provide any estimates on
how much document redaction is undertaken by your organization (e.g.,
number of documents / pages of material). 5. Please indicate any software
currently used for document redaction (e.g., Adobe Acrobat Pro). 6. Do you
use specialist staff who have undergone specific training to undertake
document redaction? If so, please indicate the specific training and/or
qualifications for these staff.

Our Response
In accordance with Section 1 (1) of the Act the Authority has a duty to
confirm whether it holds the information of the description specified in
the request and if that is the case, to have the information communicated
to the requester. Information we don’t  hold is listed against the
relevant question below.

1.            Copies of any business process, manual, procedure or policy
concerning document redaction in your organization.

We do not hold any of the requested types of documentation which is
specifically about document redaction

2.            If recorded, please indicate the FTE (staff time) spent on
document redaction by your organization per year. I am only interested in
the most recent figure for this.

Information not held

3.            If recorded, please provide the expenditure on document
redaction per year. Again, I am only interested in the most recent figure
for this.

Information not held

4.            If recorded, please provide any estimates on how much
document redaction is undertaken by your organization (e.g., number of
documents / pages of material).

Information not held

5.            Please indicate any software currently used for document
redaction (e.g., Adobe Acrobat Pro). 

Adobe Acrobat Pro

6.            Do you use specialist staff who have undergone specific
training to undertake document redaction? If so, please indicate the
specific training and/or qualifications for these staff.

Staff who undertake redactions have had on the job training.

As per the Information Commissioners Office’s Freedom of Information Code
of Practice, should you disagree with our decision, you may appeal within
40 working days of this email to:
The Borough Solicitor, Bolton Council, Town Hall, Bolton, BL1 1RU
Email:  [1][email address]

Should you further disagree with the decision following the appeal you may
wish to contact the Information Commissioner:
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF
[2]www.ico.org.uk
Tel: 01625 545700, Fax: 01625 524510

Should you have any other queries regarding this please contact 
[3][email address]

Yours sincerely

Information Governance Team

1^st Floor, Town Hall,

Bolton, BL1 1RU

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