Licenses obtained by Doug Simmons ex Chief of Sussex Police.
Dear Brighton and Hove City Council,
This is my request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
For each of the last six years please state:
1) The names and addresses of all shops for whom Doug Simmons (ex chief of Sussex Police) procured licenses for with Brighton and Hove City Council.
2) The names and addresses of all shops where Doug Simmons (as above) acted ir order to obtain a license but the application was refused by Brighton and Hove City Council.
3) How many of these licenses were reviewed and/or revoked subsequently?
Yours faithfully,
Freesia
Thank you for your request for information and I confirm we shall respond no later than 18 July 2012.
Wendy Kassamani
Information Compliance Officer
Tel: 01273 296636
Regarding your request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000: Ref: foi/639/12
For each of the last six years please state:
1) The names and addresses of all shops for whom Doug Simmons (ex
chief of Sussex Police) procured licenses for with Brighton and
Hove City Council.
2) The names and addresses of all shops where Doug Simmons (as
above) acted ir order to obtain a license but the application was
refused by Brighton and Hove City Council.
3) How many of these licenses were reviewed and/or revoked
subsequently?
Please find set out below the information in response to the above
request:
“Please find attached a table of reviews which shows those were revocation
took place. We do not record the licensing consultant/agent as part of
the Licensing Committee return.
We do not hold any further information so are unable to respond further to
any such queries.”
Should you have any queries concerning this request please contact me,
remembering to quote the reference number shown above.
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Brighton & Hove City Council
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Hove Town Hall
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Hove BN3 4AH
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If you are still not satisfied after your complaint has been investigated,
you can escalate your complaint to the Information Commissioners Office.
The contact details are:
The Information Commissioners Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone number: 01625 545745
e-mail: [2][email address]
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If you have any queries regarding this process, please contact me via the
contact details below.
Wendy Kassamani
Information Compliance Officer
Brighton & Hove City Council
Hove Town Hall
Norton Road
Hove, BN3 4AH
[4][email address]
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Dear Brighton and Hove City Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Brighton and Hove City Council's handling of my FOI request 'Licenses obtained by Doug Simmons ex Chief of Sussex Police.'.
The contents of the reply are at odds with some of the information given in response to a previous request. You have already said that 158 licenses have been obtained by Doug Simmons acting as agent for other parties. There is no indication of what years these relate to and you must have this information to be able to give the details you have. I do not accept that you cannot provide the information as requested for the last 6 years.
At the same time, since there is a record of the applications made by Doug Simmons, it follows you must have information on applications that were refused, that is if there were any. In the event that no applications submitted by him were refused, then you should state that.
Please indicate the dates that apply to the licenses listed as being revoked etc.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/li...
I put it to you that you are being deliberately obstructive in response to this.
Yours faithfully,
Freesia
Dear Freesia
Thank you for your email below appealing your recent FOI request.
We have carried out another search which comes up with the number but the
only details it gives relating to these are reference number, type
(whether new, minor application etc) and address.
To provide the information you have requested would require us to
interrogate every individual record to identify names, premises names
etc. It is estimated that this would take longer than the2.5 days allowed
for under the Freedom of Information Act. In addition to this, once the
annual fee becomes due, the agent’s name is deleted from the case because
that record is where the annual fee renewal would be sent which would be
wrong – it needs to go to the premises.
I am sorry we cannot help further with your request.
If you are still not satisfied after your complaint has been investigated,
you can escalate your complaint to the Information Commissioners Office.
The contact details are:
The Information Commissioners Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone number: 01625 545745
e-mail: [1][email address]
Website: [2]www.dataprotection.gov.uk
If you have any queries regarding this process, please contact me via the
contact details below.
Yours sincerely
Paul O'Neill
ICT Information Integrity Manager
01273 291207
Hove Town Hall
Dear Brighton and Hove City Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Brighton and Hove City Council's handling of my FOI request 'Licenses obtained by Doug Simmons ex Chief of Sussex Police.'.
I am surprised at your obfuscation in relation to my request for information relating to the Licenses obtained by Doug Simmons, either as agent, or in another capacity.
One of the items I requested was the addresses of the shops etc for which Doug Simmons obtained Licenses. This was requested at (1) in my request. Your response says that, "We have carried out another search which comes up with the number but the only details it gives relating to these are reference number, type (whether new, minor application etc)and address". So it is clear from that that you are able to supply addresses. Please do so without any further prevarication.
It seems probable that the name of each of the premises would be available as well as the address. I would ask you to reconsider this point and provide details accordingly.
Again, on the balance of probabilities, it seems likely that you would hold information on applications that were refused. Again, I would ask you to reconsider your response on this point.
This will be pursued via the ICO if there are further failures to comply with the FOI on the part of Brighton and Hove City Council.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/li...
Yours faithfully,
Freesia
I believe you have already requested a review of this request. I have however passed your email on to Mr Paul ONeill who deals with internal reviews.
Please be sure to quote your request reference number on all emails ato facilitate locating your request.
Thank you.
Wendy Kassamani
Information Compliance Officer
Tel: 01273 296636
Dear Freesia
Thank you for your email below following our response to your appeal. I
am looking into your further appeal and will respond to you as soon as
possible.
If you have any queries in the meantime please let me know.
Yours sincerely
Paul O'Neill
ICT Information Integrity Manager
01273 291207
Hove Town Hall
Dear Freesia
Thank you for your below email appealing your recent FOI request
regarding: 'Licenses obtained by Doug Simmons ex Chief of Sussex Police.'
Please see attached information in spreadsheet format as requested, a list
of licences in which Doug Simmons was involved.
This has taken one officer just under 3 days to extract this information.
In our original response to you we had estimated that this would take
over the 2.5 days allowed under the Freedom of Information Act.
Therefore the original response to you was correct in declining your
request, but as we have now carried out the work, we have forwarded the
information to you.
If you are still not satisfied after your complaint has been investigated,
you can escalate your complaint to the Information Commissioners Office.
The contact details are:
The Information Commissioners Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone number: 01625 545745
e-mail: [1][email address]
Website: [2]www.dataprotection.gov.uk
If you have any queries regarding this process, please contact me.
Yours sincerely
Paul O'Neill
ICT Information Integrity Manager
01273 291207
Hove Town Hall
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Who are you freesia ? .