The City of London's housing capital expenditure by type of activity and by source of funding.

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Dear City of London Corporation,

Please provide an annual breakdown (1980-2019) for the City of London's housing capital expenditure by type of activity (New Build, Renovation..etc) and by source of funding (Basic Credit Approvals, Grants, Capital Receipts...etc).

Yours faithfully,

Abdullah A

COL-EB-InformationOfficer, City of London Corporation

Dear Abdullah A,

Thank you for your request, below, of 8 November 2019 to the City of London (CoL). In order that we respond to your request correctly we would like you to confirm your full real name.

Name of Applicant

Please note that section 8 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) states as follows:

"8.—(1) In this Act any reference to a 'request for information' is a Request for reference to such a request which— … (b) states the name of the applicant …"

For further guidance, please see the guidance “Recognising a request made under the Freedom of Information Act (Section 8)” (version 1.2, 2 Nov 2016), published on the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at:
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/gui...

You will see that the ICO states that “the intention of the legislation is for the requester to provide their real name”, and that “the absence of a real name would make it technically invalid under Section 8(1)(b)” of the FOIA.

The CoL would like confirmation of your full real name.

Please note that the ICO states in “The Guide to Freedom of Information” (version 4.9, 14 Aug 2017), that “…you [the authority receiving the request] may decide to check [an applicant’s] identity if it is clear they are using a pseudonym”. We reserve the right to do this should we consider that a pseudonym is being used.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear COL-EB-InformationOfficer,
Name of Applicant: Abdullah Ahmed

Yours sincerely,

Abdullah A

COL-EB-InformationOfficer, City of London Corporation

Dear Abdullah Ahmed,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for information of 8 November 2019 and clarification of the same date that your full name is Abdullah Ahmed.

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working day after they receive a request, or any subsequent clarification. The Act does not always require public authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the “Square Mile”, ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the following page containing a link to a map (Explore the City), which shows the local authority area covered by the CoL:
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/maps/Pag....

The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information please see: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
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Dear Abdullah Ahmed,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Following your request for information of 8 November 2019 and our
acknowledgement of 11 November 2019 the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows:

 

The financial information for the period 1980-1998 relevant to your
request was not stored or recorded digitally. Archived hard copy files are
held for a period of six years in accordance with CoL document retention
polices and are then destroyed. A search of the departmental archive index
of records in store as at January 2005 indicates that this policy has been
complied with.

 

Therefore, in accordance with the FOIA section 1(1)(a), the CoL confirms
that it does not hold the information requested for the period
1980/81-1998/99.

 

For the period 1999-2019 the analysis you have requested is included in
the Housing Revenue Account section of the attached annual financial
statements, all of which include the necessary information at the summary
level you have specified.

 

If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[1][email address]. For a link to the CoL’s FOI complaints
procedure, please visit the following page:
[2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL’s FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700.  Website: [3]http://www.ico.org.uk/.

 

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority.

 

The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Access to Information Network Representative

Chamberlain's Department

City of London

Tel: 020 7332 1384

Website: [4]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

 

“Please provide an annual breakdown (1980-2019) for the City of London's
housing capital expenditure by type of activity (New Build,
Renovation...etc) and by source of funding (Basic Credit Approvals,
Grants, Capital Receipts...etc). “

 

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