Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Contact: Information Team
[Croydon Borough Council request email]

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DEAR Michael Richards

Freedom of information request - FOI/6665

Subject: The Kroll Report

We are just emailing you to update you on your open Information Request.
We are currently in the process of updating our systems and part of this
update will mean that your open Information Request has been assigned a
new reference: FOI/6665

Thank you in advanced for your patients patience and whilst we will
continue top process your request. We will issue a response or update to
you as soon as we are able.

Unfortunately, the Council is currently experiencing a delay in our
response times due to demand and resource. As an organisation we are aware
of our legal duties under the legislation and are making every effort to
improve our position and respond to requests within our statutory
timeframes as quickly as possible. All requests are being monitored and
continually reviewed to provide you with an expected date for disclosure.
London Borough of Croydon takes its role as a Data Controller seriously
and would like to thank you for your continued patience and understanding
whilst we improve our service to you.

 
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

Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Contact: Information Team
[Croydon Borough Council request email]

Dear Michael Richards

Request FOI/6665

Freedom of Information Request

Your request has been considered under the provisions of the Freedom of
Information Act. Please accept our apologies for the lengthy delay in
responding to you. Specifically, you have requested the following
information:

I understand that an investigation is being conducted by Kroll Associates
(UK) Limited (“Kroll”) on behalf of the Council. Kroll are undertaking an
independent, fact-finding review of the circumstances and decision-making
process leading up to and following the Council’s approval for Brick by
Brick Ltd to undertake the refurbishment of Fairfield Halls.

Please provide a copy of Kroll’s report.

Under the Freedom of Information Act, the council must consider requests
up to and including the date a request for information is received.  The
council however is not required to disclose changes to information, or new
information, after the date a request is received.

We received your request on 19 December 2022 and at that time the Kroll
Fairfield Halls report had not yet been finalised and received by the
Council. Therefore, at the time of your request this information was not
held by the Council.

By way of update, the Kroll Fairfield Halls report was finalised and
received by the Council on 9 March 2023 and it was considered by the
Council’s Appointments and Disciplinary Committee (‘the Committee’) on 23
March 2023. However, as an exception to the general rule, because the
Kroll Fairfield Halls report is a confidential document it has not been
published by the council or made available for public inspection. Further,
to maintain the confidentiality of the Kroll Fairfield Halls report, when
the Committee discussed it in detail it did so in private.

The Kroll Fairfield Halls report is confidential because it contains a lot
of personal data which it would not be appropriate or fair to disclose at
this stage in the decision-making process.

In addition, on 23 March 2023, the Committee agreed to the Kroll Fairfield
Halls report being referred to the Met Police and relevant professional
bodies for their consideration as to whether any further action is
warranted. Publication of the Kroll Fairfield Halls report therefore would
or, would be likely to prejudice those processes.

We thought we would take this opportunity to outline the reasons for the
confidentiality of the Kroll Fairfield Halls report. However, as the
council does now hold this information, you are entitled to submit a new
information request which the council would properly consider on its
merits before deciding whether or not to comply with your request.

The Council publishes Access to Information requests and responses on its
online Disclosure Log. (Any request included within this log will be
anonymised appropriately)

To view the Council’s Disclosure Log, please visit our website available
here:

[1]The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act | Croydon Council
(disclosure-log.co.uk)

If you are dissatisfied with the way the Council has handled your request
under the Freedom of Information Act you may ask for an internal review. 
This should be submitted to us within 40 working days of this response. 
You can do this by outlining the details of your complaint by:

Email:        [Croydon Borough Council request email]

Writing:     Information Team

London Borough of Croydon

Bernard Weatherill House

7^th Floor - Zone B

8 Mint Walk

Croydon CR0 1EA

Any requests received after the 40 working day time limit will be
considered only at the discretion of the council.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire   SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely 

Croydon Council

References

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1. https://croydon.disclosure-log.co.uk/