Roles of Government Departments Involved in the Production of Studies on the Impact of Brexit

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Dear Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland),

Roles of Government Departments Involved in the Production of Studies on the Impact of Brexit

I refer to my FoI request to the DExEU: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...

And their response: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...

In the response to Item 5a, DExEU says: “We can confirm that DExEU does not hold this information. This exercise relied on expertise and involvement from across Government, and we are as such unable to ascertain the effort in days that went into producing these studies.”

I now have the following questions of your department. I would be grateful if you would answer these questions on behalf of your department and those government agencies reporting through your department. If you are unable to report on behalf of your agencies, please let me know and I will make further FoI requests directly to those agencies.

1 Did your department (or associated agencies) have any role in the production of any of the studies referred to in the above referenced FoI request and response from DExEU?

2 If your department or your agencies did have a role, what was that role?

3 If your agencies had a role, please specify which agencies were involved?

4 If you or your agencies did have a role, what was the total amount of effort (in person days) expended by civil servants or department/agency-supervised government contractors on all of the studies to which you (or your agencies) contributed?

5 If you or your agencies did have a role, was any of the work subcontracted to external service providers under fixed-price or time/materials terms? If so, please provide details of these contracts including the supplier, the value and the contracting route?

6 Please identify the studies to which you or your agencies contributed?

Thank you for your help.

Yours faithfully,

Shaun Davey

Duffy, Emma (DfI), Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Shaun,

I acknowledge receipt of the request and you should have the Department’s
response within 20 working days.

Emma Duffy.

 

 

 

EMMA DUFFY

Department for Infrastructure 

Room 419  | Clarence Court | 10-18 Adelaide Street | Belfast | BT2 8GB
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Duffy, Emma (DfI), Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Shaun,

With regards to your request below, please see attached response.

Emma Duffy.

 

 

 

EMMA DUFFY

Department for Infrastructure 

Room 419  | Clarence Court | 10-18 Adelaide Street | Belfast | BT2 8GB
Tel:  (028) 9054 1188 | Email: [1][email address]

 

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Dear Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland),

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland)'s handling of my FOI request 'Roles of Government Departments Involved in the Production of Studies on the Impact of Brexit'.

In your response to Question 1, you said: "Question 1 - the only report identified in your FoI request, including the Independent article, and the subsequent response from DExEU, is the leaked Department of Health report;"

This is erroneous: I assume that you must have misread or misunderstood my FoI request. My original FoI enquiry to DExEU mentions 'over fifty studies', and DExEU in their response, confirms the existence of these studies:

Text from my request to DExEU: "It has been widely reported in the press that your department holds over fifty studies on the impact of Brexit on the UK economy"

Text from DExEU's response: "1.​ ​I can confirm that the Department holds the sectoral analyses referred to in your request."

The information I am requesting from you relates to your department's involvement in ANY of these studies, and not just the one which happens to have been leaked.

I would be grateful if you would reconsider my FoI request in the light of the above clarification.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...

Thank you for your help.

Yours faithfully,

Shaun Davey

Murnaghan, Hugh, Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Mr Davey

 

Please see the attached, issued on behalf of the DfI Departmental
Information Manager.

 

Thank you.

 

Hugh Murnaghan

 

Hugh Murnaghan

Information Management Unit

Room 5-42

Clarence Court

10-18 Adelaide Street

Belfast

(028 905)40319

 

Dear Hugh,

Thank you for your response to my request for an internal review. I conclude from the response that if you did have a role in the production of the referenced studies, it was a minor one.

I would point out that other departments have managed to give a clear, emphatic response to exactly the same question:

Department of Justice (Northern Ireland)
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...

Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...

In any case, I thank you for your time and effort.

Yours sincerely,

Shaun Davey