Legal services provided to the PHSO?

The request was partially successful.

Dear Government Legal Department,

You 'provide a legal service to the majority of central government departments':

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisati...

Do you provide a legal service to the PHSO?

If so:

1. Please provide details of any contractual arrangement that exists between yourselves and the PHSO;

2. Please provide brief details of any work you carried out on behalf of the PHSO in the current financial year;

3. Please provide information on all your fees or charges in respect of legal services provided to the PHSO in the current financial year.

Yours faithfully,

J Roberts

FOI, Government Legal Department

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Dear Sir/Madam,

Apologies for the lateness in acknowledging your request but please find attached acknowledgement letter to your Freedom of Information request made on the 17th July 2020, we will endeavour to respond to your request as quickly as possible.

Kind regards,

Data Protection Team
Operations, Government Legal Department,
102 Petty France, Westminster,
London SW1H 9GL

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FOI, Government Legal Department

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Dear J Roberts,

Thank you for your initial request dated 17th July, 2020. Thank you for your patience and apologies for the delay in getting back to you.

Please find attached a response to your request.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team
Operations, Government Legal Department,
102 Petty France, Westminster,
London SW1H 9GL

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Dear Government Legal Department,

Ref No: FOI/88/20/ROBERTS

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Government Legal Department's handling of my FOI request 'Legal services provided to the PHSO?'.

I wish you to review your response to the first part of my request:

'1.  Please provide details of any contractual arrangement that exists between yourselves and the PHSO'. 

You response includes:

'The Government Legal Department does provide legal services to the PHSO, but has not done so within the current financial year.'

Addressing part 1 of my request directly you write:

'Responses to Questions 1 to 3 
 
'As per the above response, the Government Legal Department does not hold this information as we have no active cases for the current financial year.'

It appears that you consider having no active cases for the current financial year to mean that no contractual arrangement exists. But you do provide legal services. On what terms do you provide them?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/l...

Yours faithfully,

J Roberts

FOI, Government Legal Department

Dear J Roberts,

Thank you for your email of 17/09/2020 requesting an internal review of the handling of your FOI request received on 17/07/2020, to which GLD responded on 17/09/20. We will be in touch in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team
Operations, Government Legal Department,
102 Petty France, Westminster,
London SW1H 9GL

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Dear J Roberts,

Please find attached GLD's response to your request for an internal review.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team
Operations, Government Legal Department,
102 Petty France, Westminster,
London SW1H 9GL

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