Official engagements for the ceremonial Mayor of Croydon
Dear Croydon Borough Council,
Please provide the full, official diary of engagements for the ceremonial Mayor of Croydon, Cllr Tony Pearson, from the time of his mayor-making ceremony in May 2023 until the end of October 2023.
Yours faithfully,
S Downes
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your request. Can you please confirm your full name, in order for us to log the request below.
Kind regards,
Zunerah Anjum
Dear FOI,
You have all of my name that I am prepared to share with you.
Please attend to the substance of my request as is required by law.
Yours sincerely,
S Downes
Dear sir/Madam
For you request to be valid under the FOI Act it must include the requester's real name. The Act treats all requesters alike.
Without confirmation of your full name your request will not be valid and will not be logged.
We hope to hear back from you.
Kind regards,
Zunerah Anjum
Dear Croydon Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Croydon Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Official engagements for the ceremonial Mayor of Croydon'.
I have had a response to a recent request which, I believe, is an attempt to avoid the authority's legal duties through subterfuge.
Someone called Zunerah Anjum has sent me a barely coherent response that says, "For you request to be valid under the FOI Act it must include the requester's real name."
Anjum then adds a passive aggressive threat. "Without confirmation of your full name your request will not be valid and will not be logged."
You have my real name.
I am sure that you do not want to give me further grounds for yet another complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...
Yours faithfully,
S Downes
Dear Croydon Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Croydon Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Official engagements for the ceremonial Mayor of Croydon'.
After six months, I am still waiting for your response.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...
Yours faithfully,
S Downes
Dear Croydon Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of te internal review of Croydon Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Official engagements for the ceremonial Mayor of Croydon'.
I wrote to you in April, when a response was then overdue by six months. There has been no reply to that request for an internal review.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...
Yours faithfully,
S Downes
Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA
Contact: Information Team
[email address]
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Dear S Downes
FOI/10586
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Official
engagements for the ceremonial Mayor of Croydon
Freedom of Information request or EIR
Thank you for your recent request for information. This is to inform you
that we are unable to answer your request based on what you have
requested.
Please can you confirm if you were provided with an FOI reference number
when your request was originally submitted.
Kindly be informed that the time for processing your request stops until
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with us. In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the
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your request.
Please provide your clarification by responding to this email. Please do
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Kind Regard
Information Management Team
Croydon Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
7th Floor, Zone B
Bernard Weatherill House
8 Mint Walk
Croydon CR0 1EA
Dear [email address],
Your message of September 9 this year refers.
You have asked for a council FoI reference number, when none was provided by your official, Zunerah Anjum, who somehow decided that my name was not good enough, and they wanted my "real" name.
The entire correspondence can be found here:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...
Please deal with the internal review as requested, and provide the long overdue answer to the request.
Yours sincerely,
S Downes
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