Information Commissioner's Office Involvement

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, West Sussex County Council should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear West Sussex County Council,

How many times has the Information Commissioner's Office had any involvement due to West Sussex County Council's failure to conform fully with the FOIA and guidance.

Please show all information,both sent and received to the Information Commissioners Office and to which department this related.

Yours faithfully,

andre jackson

Freedom of Information Act,

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Dear Mr Jackson,

 

Thank you for your enquiry, which has been forwarded to the appropriate
officers for a response. The usual timescale for a response is twenty
working days, that is by or on 11.01.19.

 

If for any reason the Council needs to extend this timescale you will be
notified in accordance with the relevant legislation.

 

Please note that in 2012 the County Council adopted a position in
principle that FoI and EIR requests to West Sussex County Council and the
Council's responses may be published on the Council's website in a
suitably anonymised form. This is in addition to the individual response
to the requestor, and in line with the Council's commitment to
transparency and open data.   

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Helen Thompson.

 

Freedom Of Information |  [1]West Sussex County Council | Location:
County Hall, Chichester PO19 1RQ
E-mail: [2][email address]

 

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Freedom of Information Act,

Dear Mr Jackson,

 

I refer to your request dated 11 December 2018, which has been dealt with
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

Your request was for:

 

How many times has the Information Commissioner's Office had any
involvement due to West Sussex County Council's failure to conform fully
with the FOIA and guidance.

 

Please show all information, both sent and received to the Information
Commissioners Office and to which department this related.

 

We have now completed a search for the information which you requested and
I confirm the Authority holds information relevant to the request.

 

I confirm that the authority holds information falling within the
description specified in your request. However, we estimate that the cost
of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit. The
appropriate limit has been specified in regulations and for local
authorities it is set at £450. This represents the estimated cost of one
person spending 2 1/2 working days in determining whether the Department
holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the
information. Under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act the
Department is not obliged to comply with your request and we will not be
processing your request further.

 

If you were to make a new request for a narrower category of information,
it may be that we could comply with that request within the appropriate
limit, although I cannot guarantee that this will be the case. You may
wish to ask for assistance in narrowing your request.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

 

If you are unhappy with the way your request has been handled, you may
wish to ask for a review of our decision via [1][email address]. 

 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you may
apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally,
the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted our internal
review procedure. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

 

The Information Commissioner's Office,

Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

Mike Few

Data Protection Administrator

 

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Dear Freedom of Information Act,

Can you please let me know what information can you provide that will be within the limit.

Yours sincerely,

andre jackson