REQUESTER REFERENCE: C15680
ENQUIRY REFERENCE: E30694
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Dear Sir/Madam,

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request for information received on 17/04/2018. We are
dealing with your request and plan to respond before 16/05/2018.

If you have any queries or concerns, please contact the Information
Governance Team on 020 8430 2000 or email us at:
[email address]

Yours Faithfully

Information Governance Team
Newham Council

Newham Council Publication Scheme is on: www.newham.gov.uk

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Good Morning

We are contacting you in response to your request for information relating to London Stadium correspondence.

We had hoped that we would be able to respond to your request within the timeframe but unfortunately we are still in the process of considering your request in light of the possible use of exemptions to part of your request. Although the Act carries a presumption in favour of disclosure, it provides exemptions which may be used to withhold information in specified circumstances. Some of these exemptions, referred to as ‘qualified exemptions’, are subject to a public interest test. This test is used to balance the public interest in disclosure against the public interest in favour of withholding the information. The Act allows us to exceed the 20 working day response target where we need to consider the public interest test fully.

The information which you have requested is being considered in light of the public interest test and we are additionally required to consult third parties relevant to the requested information. We therefore need to extend the 20 working day response period. We now aim to let you have a full response by 14th June at the latest but will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.

Kind regards

Information Governance
London Borough of Newham
Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road, London E16 2QU

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Dear Mr Turner,

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

We now attach our response under the disclosure provisions of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000.

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact a
member of our team on (020) 8430 2000 or email us at
[1][email address].

Alternatively, if you believe we have not dealt with your request
satisfactorily you may initially complain to us and then to the
Information Commissioner's Office. The Information Commissioner would
expect you to have given the Council the opportunity to deal with your
appeal prior to you contacting them. Please see guidance on the Freedom of
Information Appeals page:
http://www.newham.gov.uk/Pages/Services/...

As with other local authorities, the number of enquiries has increased
each year since the introduction of the Freedom of Information
legislation.  Therefore, to enable us to deal with your enquiry more
efficiently, we have introduced an online form.  We would ask that you
submit all future requests via our online form:

https://aforms.newham.gov.uk/default.asp...

In addition, you may find it useful to access the following link, where
you can view our Publication Scheme, a list of previous requests and
responses and/or use our E-Form should you wish to make further requests:

http://www.newham.gov.uk/Pages/ServiceCh...

Yours sincerely,

Information Governance

London Borough of Newham

Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road,  London E16 2QU

[email address]

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NOTE: This communication is sent for and on behalf of the London Borough
of Newham.
However the views expressed within it are not necessarily the views or
policies of the Council. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or
alteration of this communication and any attachments is forbidden. This
communication and any attachments are intended for the addressee only and
may be confidential. If this has come to you in error you should
immediately permanently destroy it.
You should take no action based on it or copy or show it to anyone and
telephone the Council immediately with any issues on 020 8430 2000 or any
other number provided in the communication. Please note that electronic
communication is not considered a secure medium for sending information
and therefore maybe at risk.
We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when using
this form of communication with us. Although we have taken steps to ensure
that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in
keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are
actually virus free and should run current anti-virus software. Please
note that email may be monitored and checked to safeguard the council
network from viruses, hoax messages or abuse of the Council's systems.
Action may be taken against any malicious and deliberate attempts to
infect the council network.
The information contained in this email maybe subject to public disclosure
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is
legally exempt from disclosure the confidentiality of this email and your
reply cannot be guaranteed.

Newham Council’s Privacy Notice can be found on our website Data
Protection
https://www.newham.gov.uk/Pages/Services... ,
which outlines your rights and how we collect, use, store, delete and
protect your personal data.

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