Dear Mr Featherstone

We apologise for the delay in responding to your enquiry and note that you
have requested an internal review due to the Council’s failure to respond
in accordance with Section 10(1) FOIA. Please consider this as a response
to your enquiry.

Your original request sought  “ ……. all minutes, recordings, Officer
working notes and any other documents related to these meetings,
engagements, and consultations” in reference to a list of trader
consultation meetings previously provided and which took place between
December 2023 and March 2024.

As previously advised, we do not formally minute BMTA meetings but
officers in attendance do make contemporaneous notes from which the
following action points arose from the meetings on 11/06/24 and 09/07/24.
A copy of those notes are attached.

11/06/24

Attendees: Marcus Shaw, Andrew Kehoe, Robert Langer, Lauren Freaney, plus
5 traders*

•              WBC to provide BMTA with consultation dates to aide their
transition planning.

•              WBC to improve engagement with the traders on the
consolidation within the current Market.

09/07/24

Attendee’s: Marcus Shaw, Andrew Kehoe, Robert Langer, Lauren Freaney, plus
4 traders*

•              WBC to include on any press release on the current market
activation works that the market is still trading.

•              WBC to include more engagement with wider traders to
extract their ideas on events etc.

•              WBC committed that Trader engagement on current design
proposal scheduled for August 2024.

*We decline to release the names of the market trader attendees under
S40(2) FOIA as this is considered to be 3rd party personal data and exempt
from disclosure in protection of their data rights.

The discussions that took place between 13-22 February were with
individual traders and our third-party consultants. Whilst we believe that
specific information shared during those discussions could be considered
to be the personal information/opinion of those individual traders in
relation to their business interests, a redacted version of the trader
consultation feedback with personal identifying information removed is
attached.  It would be wholly unfair for such information to be shared
with a 3rd party without their knowledge or consent and to do so would
breach their data protection rights, specifically the first data
protection principle as defined in s35(1) DPA18.  We therefore rely upon
the exemption at S40(2) FOIA.  

We believe that we have provided you with all information held that falls
within the scope of your enquiry.  If you remain unhappy with the manner
in which Wirral Council has dealt with this request, you have the right to
complain to the Information Commissioner who can be contacted at:
[1]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Yours sincerely

Lynette Paterson

Principal Information Management Officer

Law and Corporate Services

Wirral Council

PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ

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