Whistleblower Email Published by DUP

The request was successful.

Dear Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland),

Please can you provide all information held as to how the DUP obtained and released the initial email sent to and received by DETINI from the whistleblower as posted by the DUP twitter account.(https://twitter.com/duponline/status/809...)

- Can you confirm if the DUP received this email from the DETINI with or without redaction?
- Can you confirm why the document was not sufficiently redacted when received by the DUP to prevent identification of the author of the email?
- Can you confirm under what process and timescale what this information provided?
- Can you confirm if you have reported this breach to the Information Commissioners Office?
- Can you confirm if the release of this document was carried out under a request by the Minister for the DftE or his Special Advisers?

Yours faithfully,

Gary Clarke

DfE FOI, Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Mr Clarke

 

Please see attached acknowledgement to your recent Freedom of Information
request.

 

Regards,

 

Valerie Stevenson

Information Mgt / Comms

Department for the Economy

Netherleigh

Massey Avenue

Belfast, BT4 2JP

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DfE FOI, Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Mr Clarke

With reference to the above request, please see the attached documents.

 

Regards

Valerie Stevenson
Information Mgt / Comms
Department for the Economy
Netherleigh
Massey Avenue
Belfast, BT4 2JP
Web: www.economy-ni.gov.uk

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Dear DfE FOI,

I am disappointed with your continual poor level of compliance with the relevant acts. I do not feel this request is complex or the volume of a level that would require additional time. I do not believe a reasonable person would come to the conclusion of your department.

It seems again your department is unduly delaying the release of information. Which is ironic as this request deals with information your department released to a separate request in several days.

I shall expect a response within the legal timeframe of twenty working days or this will be another request which will receive an official complaint to the information commissioners office. Again legal action my be take to enforce the release of the information. It will be a great value to squeeze all the requests into one court filing.

Yours sincerely,

Gary Clarke

Dear Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland),

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland)'s handling of my FOI request 'Whistleblower Email Published by DUP'.

This is not a complex or volumous query.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/w...

Yours faithfully,

Gary Clarke

DfE FOI, Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Mr Clarke

Please see attached acknowledgement to your recent request for an Internal
Review of DfE 2016-0179

 

Regards

Valerie Stevenson
Information Mgt / Comms
Department for the Economy
Netherleigh
Massey Avenue
Belfast, BT4 2JP
Web: www.economy-ni.gov.uk

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Dear DfE FOI,

The ICO has confirmed they have not received a report from you in relation to the potential breach of the DPA from you in regard to your departments release of the email.

As this has been confirmed from the ICO there is no need to respond to the specific point of the request which covers of you had informed the ICO.

Yours sincerely,

Gary Clarke

Dear DfE FOI,

The advice from the ICO is that the review must be complete as soon as possible. Can you confirm why the review has not been completed as soon as possible and why it appears it would be taking the full 40 working days.

"Under Environmental Regulations Information there is a legal requirement that internal reviews must be carried out as soon as possible and within 40 working days"

Yours sincerely,

Gary Clarke

Dear DfE FOI,

You extended the deadline to respond to this request to the 14th February.

At this point this information has still not been provided can you confirm why you have not even met your own deadline and when the information will be provided.

Yours sincerely,

Gary Clarke

DfE FOI, Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland)

Mr Clarke - Thank you for your email below.

This review is being completed as quickly as possible and that the response will be issued within the Department's statutory deadline.

Thank you

Information Mgt / Comms
Department for the Economy
Netherleigh
Massey Avenue
Belfast, BT4 2JP
Web: www.economy-ni.gov.uk

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Dear DfE FOI,

This is just a reminder that tomorrow is the final day of an excessive and unexplained time period to provide the internal review of this FOI request.

Yours sincerely,

Gary Clarke

DfE FOI, Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland)

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Good afternoon Mr Clarke.

 

Please see the attached reply to your request of 19^th January for an
Internal Review of the Department’s handling of DfE 2016-0179.

 

Thank you,

 

Robin

 

Information Mgt / Comms
Department for the Economy
Netherleigh
Massey Avenue
Belfast, BT4 2JP
Web: www.economy-ni.gov.uk

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Hudson, Kerry, Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Mr. Clarke,

Please find attached the response to your request for information regarding the Renewable Heat Initiative scheme.

Kind regards,
Kerry.

Kerry Hudson
RHI Task Force
Department for the Economy
Netherleigh
Massey Avenue
Belfast, BT4 2JP
Tel: 028 9025 7494 (ext: 57494)
TextRelay: 18001 028 9025 7494
Web: www.economy-ni.gov.uk

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