Totals for FOI Requests and FOI Section 21 Exemptions in 2016

The request was successful.

Dear City of London Corporation,

I would like to make an FOI request for the following pieces of information:

1) How many FOI requests did you receive in the year Jan 1st 2016 - Dec 31st 2016 (or your equivalent business/financial year), and;

2) How many FOI Section 21 exemptions did you employ during this same time period?

Yours faithfully,

Nick Jackson

COL-EB-InformationOfficer, City of London Corporation

Dear Mr Jackson,
 
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
 
Following your request of  2 October 2017, the City of London (CoL)
responds as follows. 
 
If you scroll to the bottom of the following page –
 
[1]https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-th...
 
- you will see a heading called “FOI and EIRs Requests and Compliance”,
under which is a sub-heading, “Compliance statistics”, at which is linked
a document which shows you the information you have requested.
 
 
We hope that this response is of assistance.
 
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:
[2][email address]. For a link to the CoL’s FOI complaints
procedure, please visit the following page:
[3]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: [4]http://www.ico.org.uk/.
 
The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority. Subject to any other statutory provisions requiring
the CoL to disclose information, release of information outside the scope
of the Act is subject to the discretion of the CoL.
 
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Yours sincerely,
 
Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1209
[5]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk