Letters sent to MTCBC from Wales Audit Office
Dear Wales Audit Office,
I request copies of the letters sent to Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, in relation to financial and management issues, covering the period of the 1st April 2019 to present.
Yours faithfully,
K. Thomas
Dear K Thomas
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your request for information in your email below.
I am considering your request in accordance with the procedures set out on the Wales Audit Office website at: http://www.audit.wales/openness-and-tran.... The procedures are intended to ensure that requests are dealt with in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Code of Practice set under section 45 of the 2000 Act, the Data Protection Act 2018, and other relevant legislation.
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Yours sincerely,
Katherine Drysdale
Swyddog Gwybodaeth/ Information Officer
Y Gyfraith a Moeseg/ Law & Ethics
Ffôn / Tel: 02920 320572
E-bost: katherine.drysdale@archwilio.cymru
E-mail: katherine.drysdale@audit.wales
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Dear K Thomas
I am writing in response to your request for information dated 28 June
2019 in which you requested information regarding letters sent to Merthyr
Tydfil County Borough.
For ease of reference, I have reproduced your question below and set out
our corresponding response.
I request copies of the letters sent to Merthyr Tydfil County Borough
Council, in relation to financial and management issues, covering the
period of the 1st April 2019 to present.
We hold some information matching this description. This includes the
annual audit letter issued on 07 April which is already in the public
domain and available on the Council website at:
[1]https://democracy.merthyr.gov.uk/documen...
Accordingly this information is reasonably accessible to you by other
means and is exempt from disclosure under section 21 of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
We also hold a copy of the letter dated 31 May 2019, issued to the Leader,
Councillor Kevin O’Neill and a copy of that letter is attached. I have
redacted the signature from the letter under the exemption at s40(2) of
the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as disclosures under the Act are into
the wider public domain and I consider that release of this information
would not be within the reasonable expectation of the individual
concerned. As such, the disclosure is likely to be unfair and to disclose
would be a breach of the Data Protection Act principles.
If you wish to complain about the handling of your request, please write
to Martin Peters, Head of Law and Ethics, by email to
[2]martin.peters@audit.wales or by post to 24 Cathedral Road, Cardiff,
CF11 9LJ.
I must also refer you to section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act
under which you may apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision
on whether or not your request has been dealt with in accordance with the
Act. The Information Commissioner’s contact details are:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
email : [3][email address]
Tel: 01625 545745
Fax: 01625 524510
You should note, however, that the Information Commissioner would normally
expect you to have exhausted our internal complaints procedures before
dealing with such an application. Further guidance may be found on the
Information Commissioner’s website: [4]https://ico.org.uk/
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely
Katherine Drysdale
Swyddog Gwybodaeth/ Information Officer
Y Gyfraith a Moeseg/ Law & Ethics
Ffôn / Tel: 02920 320572
E-bost: [5]katherine.drysdale@archwilio.cymru
E-mail: [6]katherine.drysdale@audit.wales
Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru: [7]www.archwilio.cymru
Wales Audit Office: [8]www.audit.wales
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