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Dear Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council,

A request has been submitted to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council on the whatdotheyknow.com website requesting details of how much of the tax payers time and money has been spent responding to the requests made by Sheila Oliver which were submitted though the whatdotheyknow.com website.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mo...

Please would you supply me with details of whether Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council had to employ extra staff specifically to meet the demands of requests made by Sheila Oliver submitted though the whatdotheyknow.com website, or were those requests dealt with by staff already on your payroll whose normal duties include dealing with FOI requests made to the Council.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Taylor

FOI Officer, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Mr Taylor,

Thank you for your request for information which has been given reference FOI 5305. Please quote this on any correspondence regarding your request.

Stockport Council will respond to your request within 20 working days. If there will be a charge for disbursements e.g. photocopying in order to provide the information, we will inform you as soon as possible to see if you wish to proceed; however such charges are usually waived if they amount to less than £10.

Yours sincerely,

Corporate Information Service

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FOI Officer, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Mr Taylor,

 

I am writing in response to your request for information below (Ref 5305).

 

No extra staff have been employed specifically to meet the demands of any
requests made to the Council through the whatdotheyknow.com website.

 

If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request for
information, you are entitled to ask for an internal review; however you
must do so within 40 working days of the date of this response. Any
internal review will be carried out by a senior member of staff who was
not involved with your original request. To ask for an internal review,
contact [1][email address] in the first instance.

 

If you are unhappy with the outcome of any internal review, you are
entitled to complain to the Information Commissioner. To do so, contact:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

[2]www.ico.gov.uk

 

01625 545 745

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Claire Naven

 

Corporate Information Services

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

 

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