Freedom of Information requests and internal reviews
Dear Home Office,
Please take this as a request under the FOI Act to provide all memos, guidance, emails, documents, minutes from meetings and ANY other form of communication which relate to the policy adopted by the Home Office in response to Freedom of Information requests as well as on conducting internal reviews.
BritCits
Thank you for contacting the Home Office FOI Requests mailbox.
The Freedom of Information (FoI) Act 2000 provides public access to
recorded information held by the department.
If you have submitted a valid FoI request, we will acknowledge your
request within 24 hours, and aim to provide the information requested
within 20 working days as specified under the FoI Act.
Please note we are unable to respond to non-FOI immigration enquiries. If
you have a general immigration enquiry, or require an update on a specific
case, contact information can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisati... and
https://www.gov.uk/visas-immigration
Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or
recorded for legal purposes.
Dear BritCits
Thank you for your recent e mail concerning the above matter.
We are dealing with your enquiry and aim to send a response by 28/08/2014
Regards
Information Management Services (IMS)
Corporate Services
[1]www.gov.uk/home-office
Dear BritCits,
Please find the attached response to your FOI request – 32456.
Regards
S. Snowsell
Corporate Services
Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or
recorded for legal purposes.
Dear Home Office,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's handling of my FOI request 'Freedom of Information requests and internal reviews'.
My request relates to HO policy which should be at hand - if ti takes over 24 man hours to obtain this information, I am especially concerned as to how the overworked HO staff are able to undertake their duties in compliance with the law!`
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,
BritCits
Thank you for contacting the Home Office FOI Requests mailbox.
The Freedom of Information (FoI) Act 2000 provides public access to
recorded information held by the department.
If you have submitted a valid FoI request, we will acknowledge your
request within 24 hours, and aim to provide the information requested
within 20 working days as specified under the FoI Act.
Please note we are unable to respond to non-FOI immigration enquiries. If
you have a general immigration enquiry, or require an update on a specific
case, contact information can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisati... and
https://www.gov.uk/visas-immigration
Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or
recorded for legal purposes.
BritCits
Thank you for contacting the Home Office.
This will be handled as an internal review of your Freedom of Information
request.
The internal review has been assigned to a caseworker who will investigate
and respond to you (ref 32456).
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you
FOI Requests
Home Office
Britcits
Please find attached a response to your request for an internal review
Diana Pottinger
Information Access Team
Home Office
Please note that any futher correspondence should be sent to
[1][Home Office request email] not FOI responses.
Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or
recorded for legal purposes.
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BritCits left an annotation ()
To clarify:
I am requesting under the FOI Act, information, be it in the format of: guidance, emails, documents, minutes from meetings, memos or any other form of communication, which relates to the policy adopted by
the Home Office
a) for how it responds to FOI requests, including the timescales and grades of the person handling it
b) for how it conducts internal reviews including assigning the person to undertake it.
Please also confirm that were time delays occur what procedures Home Office has in place, if any, to combat the issue and ensure they do not continue to be in breach of the law for other such requests made uner the FOI Act.