Information rights / governance (FOIA/EIR/DPA)

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Dear Health and Safety Executive,

1. For the current financial year 2021/22 what is the budget for:
1a. Your organisation as a whole
1b. Your information rights functions i.e. FOIA, subject access requests (SAR), EIR
1c. Your press office or equivalent department?

2. For the last 5 calendar years (i.e. from January 2017 to December 2021) please provide an annual breakdown of the volume of the following in relation to your organisation:
2a. FOIA appeals to the ICO
2b. EIR appeals to the ICO
2c. Subject access requests received
2d. Subject access requests closed
2e. Subject access requests closed in time
2f. Complaints relating to subject access requests
2g. First-tier (information rights) Tribunals
2h. Upper Tribunals or higher

3. In relation to your current open casework please provide the number of open:
3a. FOIA requests
3b. FOIA requests overdue
3c. FOIA requests older than 6 months (measured from the received date)
3d. FOIA requests older than 1 year (measured from the received date)
3e. FOIA Internal reviews
3f. FOIA Internal reviews overdue
3g. FOIA Appeals
3h. EIR requests
3i. EIR requests overdue
3j. EIR Internal Reviews
3k. EIR internal reviews overdue
3l. Subject access requests
For the purposes of this question, any snapshot in time between the date you receive this request and the date of your response is acceptable. However, it would assist me if you could indicate the date upon which the snapshot was taken.

4. For your information rights functions relating to FOIA, SAR and EIR, please provide:
4a. An organisational chart for your information rights unit or department(s) responsible for responding to information rights requests
For each role within your information rights unit/department please provide:
4b. A current job description
4c. Number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff performing the role
4d. Pay grade/banding including the salary range
4e. Number of direct reports i.e. number of individual staff managed
If not already answered please:
4f. indicate if these roles perform additional core functions or casework.
4g. include the role of your Data Protection Officer in relation to questions 4a-4e
4h. advise where your information rights function sits within the overall structure of your organisation (e.g. Legal, Information Governance, Communications etc.)
4i. Advise whether your organisation operates a centralised or devolved approach to answering FOIA, EIR and SAR requests
4j. Advise what role and banding has primary responsibility in your organisation for managing and drafting responses to casework relating to:
4j i. 1st stage FOIA/EIR requests
4j ii. FOIA/EIR internal reviews
4j iii. FOI and EIR Appeals to the ICO
4j iv. Tribunals (information rights)
4j v. Subject Access requests
4j vi. Complaints relating to subject access requests

5. For the roles with core responsibility for managing and updating your FOI publication scheme, please provide
5a. Job description(s)
5b. Pay grade/banding including the salary range
5c. Number of direct reports i.e. number of individual staff managed
5d. The name(s) of the unit(s)/department(s) the roles come under

6. What case management software and version do you currently use to manage FOIA, EIR and SAR casework?

7. What redaction software do you use to redact information for the purposes of FOIA, EIR and SAR case work?

8. What, if any, external FOIA, EIR or data protection training or certifications has your organisation funded since 2017 for staff with core responsibilities for FOIA, EIR or Data protection compliance?

Yours faithfully,

Mr M. Wilson.

Jane Cloherty, Health and Safety Executive

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Dear Mr Wilson

 

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Jane Cloherty / Disclosure Manager / Health and Safety Executive

Central Disclosure Unit, 1.3 Redgrave Court, Merton Road, Bootle, L20 7HS

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