Information Commissioners Office 2023
Dear Oxfordshire County Council,
For calendar year 2023, please provide copies of all communications you hold between the Council and the Information Commissioner's Office. Where possible and with the necessary redactions, include copies of third party document that were exchanged between the two parties.
Please provide ALL information you hold, including Freedom of Information and Data Protection matters that includes service updates; meeting and event arrangements; advice sought/received; instructions/responses on complaints; regulatory recommendations and
discussions/responses around these recommendations; ad hoc emails.
Yours faithfully,
Janet King
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Dear Mr King,
Our reference 22969 FOI
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) in
which you asked for the following information:
For calendar year 2023, please provide copies of all communications you
hold between the Council and the Information Commissioner's Office. Where
possible and with the necessary redactions, include copies of third-party
document that were exchanged between the two parties.
Please provide ALL information you hold, including Freedom of Information
and Data Protection matters that includes service updates; meeting and
event arrangements; advice sought/received; instructions/responses on
complaints; regulatory recommendations and discussions/responses around
these recommendations; ad hoc emails.
We are writing to acknowledge your request. Your request has been logged
under reference 22969 FOI.
Your request is being considered and we aim to send your response by 01
March 2024 in accordance with the Legislation. However, if there are
circumstances where this is not possible, we will write to further inform
you of when you will expect to receive your response.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further enquiries
about your request, quoting your reference number above.
Kind regards
Renata
Renata Malinowski
FOI Support Officer
Voice of the Customer Team
Oxfordshire County Council
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Our reference: 22969 FOI
Dear Janet King
Thank you for your request of 2^nd February 2024 in which you asked for
the following information:
Your Request
For calendar year 2023, please provide copies of all communications you
hold between the Council and the Information Commissioner's Office. Where
possible and with the necessary redactions, include copies of third party
document that were exchanged between the two parties.
Please provide ALL information you hold, including Freedom of Information
and Data Protection matters that includes service updates; meeting and
event arrangements; advice sought/received; instructions/responses on
complaints; regulatory recommendations and discussions/responses around
these recommendations; ad hoc emails.
Our Response
It is the Council’s view that to comply with your request would absorb
enough of its resources to engage section 12(1) of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Section 12(1) provides that a public authority is
exempt from complying with a request for information if the authority
estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed the appropriate limit. In
the case of local authorities, the appropriate limit is £450.00 as set out
in The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and
Fees) Regulations 2004. Costs are to be estimated at a rate of £25.00 per
person per hour which equates to a limit of 18 hours of staff time. In
this case, I consider that it would take approximately 41 hours to locate,
retrieve and extract the information that you have requested. This figure
was calculated accordingly:
1. To locate all correspondence with the Information Commissioner’s
Office – 4 hours
2. To extract all correspondence that is not duplicated or exempt
information – 35 hours
3. To collate and release all correspondence – 2 hours.
As you can see, to comply with your request would exceed the appropriate
limit and so the Council must refuse your request on this occasion. The
Council does not consider that there is an overriding public interest
which would warrant the disclosure of this information, on this occasion.
Advice and Assistance
In accordance with the Council’s duty to now advise and assist you, might
I suggest that you consider amending your request to narrow its scope.
Internal review
If you are dissatisfied with the service or response to your request, you
can ask for an internal review as follows:
· Contact the Freedom of Information team in Law &
Governance: [1][Oxfordshire County Council request email]
· Write to the Freedom of Information team at the FREEPOST
address:
Freedom of Information Team
Oxfordshire County Council
FREEPOST (RTLL-ECKS-GLUA)
Oxford OX1 1YA
If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have a
right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
The Information Commissioner's Office,
Wycliffe House,
Water Lane,
Wilmslow,
Cheshire,
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 1113
Website: [2]www.ico.gov.uk
Please let me know if you have further enquiries. I would be grateful if
you could use the reference number given at the top of this email.
Yours sincerely,
James Willoughby
Access to Information Team Leader
Law & Governance
Customers, Culture and Corporate Services
Oxfordshire County Council, New Road, Oxford, OX1 1ND
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Dear Oxfordshire County Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Oxfordshire County Council's handling of my FOI request 'Information Commissioners Office 2023'.
I reject your reasoning for refusal of FOI request.
You have information readily available and are not entitled to use time redacting documents to contribute to allowable time.
Should you uphold your refusal I shall refer matter to the ICO for arbitration.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...
Yours faithfully,
Janet King
Dear Janet
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) for
an Internal Review of your initial request.
The review will be undertaken by an officer that was not involved in the
original handling of your request. As part of the review, they will
consider how your original request was handled.
You will receive your response no later than 25^th March
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further enquiries
about your request, quoting your reference number above.
Kind Regards
Lucy
Senior Freedom of Information Officer
Voice of the Customer Team
Customers and Organisational Development
Oxfordshire County Council
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Sent: 26 February 2024 15:03
To: FOI Team <[Oxfordshire County Council request email]>
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Dear Oxfordshire County Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information
reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Oxfordshire County Council's
handling of my FOI request 'Information Commissioners Office 2023'.
I reject your reasoning for refusal of FOI request.
You have information readily available and are not entitled to use time
redacting documents to contribute to allowable time.
Should you uphold your refusal I shall refer matter to the ICO for
arbitration.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on
the Internet at this address:
[3]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...
Yours faithfully,
Janet King
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Dear Janet,
I am writing to you regarding the Internal Review response of FOI 22969,
that was due to you on Monday 25 March.
Unfortunately, we have not been able to meet this deadline, please accept
the Council’s apologies for this.
The reviewing manager has advised that a response will be sent to you no
later than 12 April, but they will endeavour to send the response before
this date.
If you have any queries in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact
us.
Kind Regards
Lucy
Senior Freedom of Information Officer
Voice of the Customer Team
Customers and Organisational Development
Oxfordshire County Council
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Dear Ms King
Please find attached the review response to your request and associated
information.
Regards,
James Willoughby
Access to Information Team Leader
Law & Governance
Customers, Culture and Corporate Services
Oxfordshire County Council, New Road, Oxford, OX1 1ND
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Dear Janet King
Please see attached the council’s response to your information request, in
accordance with the Information Commissioner’s Office decision.
Below is a link to the information requested:
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If there are any issues at all gaining access, please do let me know.
Regards,
James Willoughby
Access to Information Team Leader
Law & Governance
Customers, Culture and Corporate Services
Oxfordshire County Council, New Road, Oxford, OX1 1ND
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Dear Oxfordshire County Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Oxfordshire County Council's handling of my FOI request 'Information Commissioners Office 2023'.
The link you have provided does not work.
Do not provide an updated link, but upload documents to the WDTK website. There are no limitations to the size of file that can be uploaded.
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Yours faithfully,
Janet King
Dear Janet King
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Lucy
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Voice of the Customer Team
Customers and Organisational Development
Oxfordshire County Council
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Oxfordshire County Council
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Oxfordshire County Council
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Oxfordshire County Council
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Dear FOI Team,
Thank you for your response of 21 January 2025.
The FOI request sought copies of communications exchanged between the Council and the Information Commissioner's Office. However, you have provided a substantial number of emails that fall outside the scope of the request, creating unnecessary work for yourselves.
Yours sincerely,
Janet King
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