Dear Jonty,

Thank you for your request for information from Arts Council England.

I can confirm that your request will be considered in line with our
obligations under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This means that we
will respond to your request in full as soon as possible and, at the
latest, within 20 working days (not including UK bank holidays) from the
day after we received your email. Consequently, you can expect to hear
from us by Tuesday 18 April 2023.

If you would like to know more about how we will deal with your request
for information, you can find information on our
website [1]http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/who-we-are...

Alternatively, for a more comprehensive look at information rights
legislation, please visit the Information Commissioner’s
website [2]http://www.ico.org.uk

If you have any further queries in the meantime, please do not hesitate to
contact us.

Kind regards,

Charlotte Walker

Officer, Information

Arts Council England

From: Jonty Wareing <[FOI #960913 email]>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2023 5:53 PM
To: Information <[email address]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Freedom of Information request - List of Accredited
Museum locations

CAUTION:This email originated outside ACE. Take extra care when opening
attachments or clicking links.

Dear Arts Council England,

I would like to request a list of accredited museums, including location
information such as address or latitude/longitude.

If possible I would also like:
* The website address associated with each museum.
* The date of accreditation.
* Any other information about the museum you are able to disclose, such as
a description.

Please supply this in a machine-readable form, such as a spreadsheet or
CSV.

Yours faithfully,
Jonty Wareing

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Dear Jonty,

Thank you for your request for information from Arts Council England.

As previously mentioned, I can confirm that this request was considered in
line with our obligations under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request:

I would like to request a list of accredited museums, including location
information such as address or latitude/longitude.

If possible I would also like:
* The website address associated with each museum.
* The date of accreditation.
* Any other information about the museum you are able to disclose, such as
a description.

Please supply this in a machine-readable form, such as a spreadsheet or
CSV.
Our Response:

We publish information about accredited museums which includes location
information and date of accreditation on our website [1]here.

Copyright notice

Please note that copyright of the information you have been given belongs
to Arts Council England or to another party. Copyright material must not
be copied, distributed, modified, reproduced, transmitted, published
(including published on the Internet or an intranet), or otherwise made
available in whole or in part without the prior written consent of the
copyright holder.

We hope you are satisfied with the way in which we have dealt with your
request for information under the Freedom of Information Act, however, if
you are not satisfied that this is the case then you are entitled to an
internal review. To request an internal review please contact us by reply
to this email, within two months of the date of this correspondence,
explaining what specifically you would like us to review under the Act.
Alternatively you can detail your specific concerns in writing and send
them to the Chief Executive, Arts Council England, 21 Stephen Street,
London, W1T 1LN or email to [2][email address]

Subsequently, if you are not content with the outcome of the internal
review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information
Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted
at Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

All best wishes,

Charlotte Walker

Officer, Information

Arts Council England

From: Information
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 2:35 PM
To: Jonty Wareing <[FOI #960913 email]>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL]Freedom of Information request - List of Accredited
Museum locations

Dear Jonty,

Thank you for your request for information from Arts Council England.

I can confirm that your request will be considered in line with our
obligations under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This means that we
will respond to your request in full as soon as possible and, at the
latest, within 20 working days (not including UK bank holidays) from the
day after we received your email. Consequently, you can expect to hear
from us by Tuesday 18 April 2023.

If you would like to know more about how we will deal with your request
for information, you can find information on our
website [3]http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/who-we-are...

Alternatively, for a more comprehensive look at information rights
legislation, please visit the Information Commissioner’s
website [4]http://www.ico.org.uk

If you have any further queries in the meantime, please do not hesitate to
contact us.

Kind regards,

Charlotte Walker

Officer, Information

Arts Council England

From: Jonty Wareing <[5][FOI #960913 email]>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2023 5:53 PM
To: Information <[6][email address]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Freedom of Information request - List of Accredited
Museum locations

CAUTION:This email originated outside ACE. Take extra care when opening
attachments or clicking links.

Dear Arts Council England,

I would like to request a list of accredited museums, including location
information such as address or latitude/longitude.

If possible I would also like:
* The website address associated with each museum.
* The date of accreditation.
* Any other information about the museum you are able to disclose, such as
a description.

Please supply this in a machine-readable form, such as a spreadsheet or
CSV.

Yours faithfully,
Jonty Wareing

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[7][FOI #960913 email]

Is [8][Arts Council England request email] the wrong address for Freedom of
Information requests to Arts Council England? If so, please contact us
using this form:
[9]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/change_re...

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on
the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
[10]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/offi...

For more detailed guidance on safely disclosing information, read the
latest advice from the ICO:
[11]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/ico-...
[12]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/ico-...

Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will
be delayed.

If you find this service useful as an FOI officer, please ask your web
manager to link to us from your organisation's FOI page.

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Dear Jonty,

Thank you for your email.

Arts Council England does not hold the data you are requesting centrally.

The list of accredited museums is available on our website, and up to date
museum addresses and website addresses will be published by each museum
therefore we are in part refusing your request under Section 21 of the
Freedom of Information Act. The ICO states that Section 21’s purpose is
“to ensure that there is no right of access to information via FOIA if it
is available to the applicant by another route”, and that “the information
must be reasonably accessible to the particular applicant”. Furthermore,
they state that “information available via the public authority’s
publication scheme will be reasonably accessible to an applicant”.

Under Section 12(1) of FOIA, the Arts Council England is not required to
provide information requested if the work involved in obtaining the
information exceeds an appropriate limit. The appropriate limit for public
authorities is £450 as defined in Regulation 3(3) of the Freedom of
Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations
2004 (the Regulations). The guidance document Using the Fees Regulations
from the Information Commissioner’s Office states that the time limit is
exceeded if the time taken to determine whether we hold, locate, retrieve,
and extract the information exceeds 18 hours. This roughly translates to
two and half days work.

For Arts Council England to manually create such a list and consult with
each 1740 museums to ensure that the information is accurate exceeds the
appropriate limit under the Regulations. As a result, I am in part
refusing your request on the basis that it exceeds the appropriate limit.
The reason this threshold is in place is because the costs of responding
to Freedom of Information requests have to be taken from public funds.
Exceeding this threshold would therefore impact on other areas of spend.
By using our resources for a large single request, our ability to comply
with other requests that we receive within the requirements of appropriate
legislation would be severely impacted.

We hope you are satisfied with the way in which we have dealt with your
request for information under the Freedom of Information Act, however, if
you are not satisfied that this is the case then you are entitled to an
internal review. To request an internal review please contact us by reply
to this email, within two months of the date of this correspondence,
explaining what specifically you would like us to review under the Act.
Alternatively you can detail your specific concerns in writing and send
them to the Chief Executive, Arts Council England, 21 Stephen Street,
London, W1T 1LN or email to [1][email address]

Subsequently, if you are not content with the outcome of the internal
review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information
Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted
at Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

All best wishes,

Charlotte Walker

Officer, Information

Arts Council England

From: Jonty Wareing <[FOI #960913 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 1:07 PM
To: Information <[email address]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL]RE: [EXTERNAL]Freedom of Information request - List of
Accredited Museum locations

CAUTION:This email originated outside ACE. Take extra care when opening
attachments or clicking links.

Hello,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I had already checked the downloads
available on your website before filing the FOI - they only have an
extremely broad location classification for ONS region and ACE region
codes, and I need exact location information such as address or
latitude/longitude.

The data downloads also do not include any of the additional information I
requested, if at all available.

Yours sincerely,
Jonty Wareing

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Dear Jonty,

Thank you for your email. To confirm, we don't have to have published the
addresses or provide them under FOI for them to already be available in
the public domain as outlined under section 21.

We do not hold the information you have requested in the manner you have
described.  Would you like us to consider your email a request for an
internal review? If yes, please confirm within two months of the date of
this correspondence, explaining what specifically you would like us to
review under the Act.

Best wishes,

Charlotte

From: Jonty Wareing <[FOI #960913 email]>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:09 PM
To: Information <[email address]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Internal review of Freedom of Information request -
List of Accredited Museum locations

CAUTION:This email originated outside ACE. Take extra care when opening
attachments or clicking links.

Hello,

Can you please reassess this, as I know the address for each museum must
be supplied via Grantium during the application, so this information
should be held centrally by the Arts Council.

I also do not believe Section 21 applies here, as the current Accredited
Museum data published by the Arts Council only supplies the name of the
museum as identifying information, and it is extremely difficult (if not
impossible) to actually find the requested information about some of the
smaller museums with this alone.

Yours sincerely,
Jonty Wareing

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