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Dear Megan,
Your FOI has been logged and allocated to an officer.
Reference: 23/02163/FOI
Please quote the above in any future correspondence relating to this FOI
request.

Kind regards,

Bonnie Cottrell

FOI Co-Ordinator
Hart District Council
Harlington Way
Fleet
GU51 4AE

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From: Research for Action <[FOI #1057542 email]>
Sent: 12 December 2023 17:49
To: FOI User <[Hart District Council request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Use of Scrutiny Call-In
Mechanism
 
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Dear Hart District Council,

This request relates to uses of the call-in mechanism that forms part of
the overview and scrutiny committee system.

If your authority has an overview and scrutiny system please answer the
following:

For the past ten years, please confirm how many decisions taken by the
council’s cabinet/executive were available for call-in.

Please provide a table showing a breakdown of the following for each year
since 2013.
For each year please state how many call-ins there were.
For each call-in please show which committee called them in, what the
response was, the topic and provide a link to the relevant committee where
the call was discussed.

If the S.12 time limit would be exceeded by responding to this request,
please answer for a fewer number of years, starting with the most recent.

Yours faithfully,

Megan Waugh

Research for Action

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Dear Megan

Further to your Freedom of Information request reference: FOI 23/02163

The Council does hold the requested information and our response is as
follows: 

Hart District Council has not had any call-ins since 2013

I can confirm that Hart District Council holds information relating to The
number of decisions that could have been subject  , it is however exempt
under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) because the
information is accessible to you by other means, as it is already in the
public domain. 

The purpose of the Section 21 exemption is to ensure that there is no
right of access to information via FOIA if it is available to the
applicant by another route. 

Section 21 is also an absolute exemption which means there is no
requirement to carry out a public interest test if the requested
information is exempt. 

The information is available by following the link below

[1]Council meetings and papers | Hart District Council

If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been
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FOI Co-Ordinator 

Hart District Council 

Civic Offices 

Fleet 

GU51 4AE 

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Kind regards,

FOI Co-Ordinator
Hart District Council
Harlington Way
Fleet
GU51 4AE

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