World Protection for Dog's and Cats in the Meat Trade (aka Notodogmeat) - CN 1154524

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Dear Charity Commission for England and Wales,

Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I request the following information on the above charity -

1. Copies of all correspondence between the Charity Commission and the Charity's Trustees relating to the charity's expenditure of funds towards the 'Mrs Yang' Appeal conducted through the TotalGiving fundraising website in 2015.

In particular, but not exclusively, any correspondence explaining why or querying why the charity's reported 18,640 annual income for the 2015 reporting year does not seem to include any of the funds raised in support of the Mrs Yang Appeal.

2. A structured chronological list of the dates of all correspondence between the Commission and the Charity that related to the Mrs Yang fundraiser.

To clarify this part of the request, I am asking for a 'timeline' of correspondence showing the sequence of exchanges between the Commission and the Charity. If possible, please include a very brief summary of the subject of each exchange and set the timeline out in the form of a chronological table.

3. A list of all the Charity Commission officers who corresponded with the Charity in relation to the Mrs Yang fundraiser and if possible details for the officer currently responsible for directing or conducting the Charity Commission's inquiries into the fundraiser.

I am particularly interested in establishing, as far as possible, which and how many Charity Commission officers have dealt with the fundraiser related concerns and over what period of time each, so when responding to this part of the request please include the number of days/weeks/months/years each officer was recorded as working on the case by the Charity Commission, even if unable to provide their individual names for Data Protection reasons.

4. Copies of all internal Charity Commission emails, briefing notes or other internal exchanges that relate to the Mrs Yang fundraiser.

In particular, but not exclusively, I am asking for copies of all internal notes/briefings/case discussions/exchanges/etc where one Charity Commission officer has handed over responsibility for the case or fundraiser issue to another. To the extent possible please specifically provide any information held accounting for or explaining any extended (one month or longer) gaps between Charity Commission exchanges with the Charity on the case or issues involved. Please provide the response to this part of the request in chronological order.

5. The current total of funds raised for the Mrs Yang fundraiser that the Charity Commission holds on record and any information held on how any of those funds have been reported as spent by the Charity.

I am particularly interested in the amount of funds not reported as spent by the charity, or which were reported to the Charity Commission as having been spent for purposes other than those stated in the fundraiser, as it appeared on the TotalGiving website throughout the period that fundraiser was active.

If responding to this request would exceed the cost or time limits set out in the Freedom of Information Act, please provide advice or assistance under section 16 of that Act to outline what recorded information within the request's scope/range, as held by the Charity Commission, could be supplied within those limits. Please advise if the request could be better met if sub-divided into separate smaller requests, so as to receive the maximum possible amount of available information.

Yours faithfully,

Diana Strom

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Dear PCT - Liverpool (Queue)

Thank you for your response.

When can I expect to receive the remaining information not falling under the exemptions applied in your response?

That information being -

1. A structured chronological list of THE DATES of all correspondence between the Commission and the Charity that related to the Mrs Yang fundraiser. To clarify this part of the request, I am asking for a 'timeline' of correspondence showing the sequence of exchanges between the Commission and the Charity.

2. HOW MANY Charity Commission officers have dealt with the fundraiser related concerns and OVER WHAT PERIOD OF TIME EACH, so when responding to this part of the request please include the number of days/weeks/months/years each officer was recorded as working on the case by the Charity Commission, EVEN IF unable to provide their individual names for Data Protection reasons.

3. To the extent possible please specifically provide ANY INFORMATION HELD accounting for or explaining any extended (one month or longer) gaps between Charity Commission exchanges with the Charity on the case or issues involved. Please provide the response to this part of the request in chronological order.

All of the above was contained in my request as sent to you and was not quoted or referenced in the response as being exempted under any of the sections applied.

As you say in your response, there is 'very considerable public interest in the Commission being
able to operate and regulate charities EFFICIENTLY AND EFFECTIVELY' and that is exactly why the above was included in the request. To identify in the public interest if the Commission's handling of the case has been conducted 'efficiently and effectively'.

This is not, at this point, a request for an internal review. I believe you may simply have overlooked or failed to identify the above parts of the request, focusing only on that information falling within the range of the applied exemptions.

Yours faithfully

Diana Strom

Dear Charity Commission for England and Wales

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

I am writing to request an internal review of the Charity Commission for England and Wales's handling of my FOI request 'World Protection for Dog's and Cats in the Meat Trade (aka Notodogmeat) - CN 1154524'.

The request was made on March 2 2017, received and acknowledged, with a partial response being received on March 30 2017 in which exemptions were applied to some BUT NOT ALL of the requested information.

I responded on March 31 2017, asking when I could expect to receive the remaining information to which no exemptions had been applied or mention made in the March 30 2017 response from the Commission. It is now April 12 2017, the outstanding information has still not been supplied and no acknowledgement of receiving my March 31 2017 response has been provided.

The Charity's Commission's response to the original request is currently 8 days overdue, with no explanation or apology having been given for the delay. Please review the request for timeliness, efficiency of handling and accuracy of response.

The original request thread can be viewed here -

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/w....

Please treat this email as both a request for Internal Review of that request AND as a new and separate FOI request for the supply of the following additional information as recorded by the Commission:

1. The date on which my response to your email of March 30 2017 was received by the Charity Commission.

2. The date that response of March 31 2017 was matched to the original request and the status log of that original request updated, to record it was still an active request and a response overdue.

3. A copy (extract) of the Charity Commission's record of the original request's status and handling as reported to the Ministry of Justice, or other responsible monitoring Department, when reporting on the Commission's handling of FIO cases for the month of March 2017 (or when reporting for the relevant quarter if that is the method used for such reports).

4. The number of FOI requests currently being worked on by (or assigned to) the Charity Commission officer/officers who provided the Commission's response of March 30 2017.

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

It would be appreciated if the Internal Review and new FOI request could be resolved before April 30 2017, as I have an editorial review deadline to meet for the Los Angeles Times. If this is not likely to be possible, please advise and supply contact details for the Commission's Press Office.

Yours faithfully

Diana Strom

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Dear PCT - Liverpool (Queue)

Thank you for your response of April 20 2017, stating that on assessment the outstanding information held by the Commission falls under the exemptions already applied in respect of the Commission's previous response of March 30 2017.

I appreciate you suggesting in your latest response that if dissatisfied a request for an Internal Review can be submitted, however you seem to have overlooked or ignored the fact that I have already submitted an Internal Review request as the closing paragraph of my April 12 2017 email to you.

This obviously raises concerns that your handling of the request has not been consistent with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, as you have seemingly neither conducted the requested Internal Review or apparently even been aware of its existence when responding on April 20 2017 with the suggestion to ask for an Internal Review.

I repeat my request that the Commission's handling of my original request be Internally Reviewed for timeliness, effectiveness of handling and accuracy of response ALONG WITH its handling of my request for an Internal Review which appears to have been overlooked or ignored without explanation or response and without providing the contact details for the Commission's Press Office as also requested.

To set things in context, since there seems to have been some confusion, ignorance of, or cross-handling of this request on the part of the Commission, the charity has attracted a number of high profile celebrity supporters in the United States associated with the Film and Television Industry.

There is therefore a growing element of public interest in establishing if concerns over the conduct of the Mrs Yang fundraiser expressed to the Commission have any substance and have been 'effectively and efficiently' considered by the Commission. The Commission's responses to date, those to my Freedom of Information requests included, suggest that the Commission may have failed to properly manage its handling of those concerns and the actions or inaction's of those of its Officers assigned responsibility for the case, as well as failing to engage with the charity in a timely and effective manner over what has become an extended period of years since concerns were first drawn to its attention.

The publication I am researching on behalf of (The Los Angeles Times) intends to publish a related article, in which the Commission's responses to this Freedom of Information request will feature alongside the wider history of the fundraiser. Since you have failed to provide the requested contact details for your Press Office, please provide through this thread of correspondence the Commission's official Press Line on the current status of its fact-finding engagement into these concerns.

The editorial review deadline for publication of the intended article is April 30 2017, as previously requested a response in advance of that date would be appreciated. In advance of publication a draft of the intended article will be provided for the Commission's comment if no response has been received by that date.

Yours sincerely

Diana Strom

Dear Charity Commission for England and Wales

Please match this correspondence to the Internal Review request submitted on April 12 2017, as there appears to have been some cross-handling or confusion given the Commission's response makes no mention of the existing Internal Review request and in fact suggest that one be made if dissatisfied.

Rather than copy the Commission's response of April 20 2017 here, it can be viewed as part of the thread of correspondence here -

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/w...

Dear PCT - Liverpool (Queue)

Thank you for your response of April 20 2017, stating that on assessment the outstanding information held by the Commission falls under the exemptions already applied in respect of the Commission's previous response of March 30 2017.

I appreciate you suggesting in your latest response that if dissatisfied a request for an Internal Review can be submitted, however you seem to have overlooked or ignored the fact that I have already submitted an Internal Review request as the closing paragraph of my April 12 2017 email to you.

This obviously raises concerns that your handling of the request has not been consistent with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, as you have seemingly neither conducted the requested Internal Review or apparently even been aware of its existence when responding on April 20 2017 with the suggestion to ask for an Internal Review.

I repeat my request that the Commission's handling of my original request be Internally Reviewed for timeliness, effectiveness of handling and accuracy of response ALONG WITH its handling of my request for an Internal Review which appears to have been overlooked or ignored without explanation or response and without providing the contact details for the Commission's Press Office as also requested.

To set things in context, since there seems to have been some confusion, ignorance of, or cross-handling of this request on the part of the Commission, the charity has attracted a number of high profile celebrity supporters in the United States associated with the Film and Television Industry.

There is therefore a growing element of public interest in establishing if concerns over the conduct of the Mrs Yang fundraiser expressed to the Commission have any substance and have been 'effectively and efficiently' considered by the Commission. The Commission's responses to date, those to my Freedom of Information requests included, suggest that the Commission may have failed to properly manage its handling of those concerns and the actions or inaction's of those of its Officers assigned responsibility for the case, as well as failing to engage with the charity in a timely and effective manner over what has become an extended period of years since concerns were first drawn to its attention.

The publication I am researching on behalf of (The Los Angeles Times) intends to publish a related article, in which the Commission's responses to this Freedom of Information request will feature alongside the wider history of the fundraiser. Since you have failed to provide the requested contact details for your Press Office, please provide through this thread of correspondence the Commission's official Press Line on the current status of its fact-finding engagement into these concerns.

The editorial review deadline for publication of the intended article is April 30 2017, as previously requested a response in advance of that date would be appreciated. In advance of publication a draft of the intended article will be provided for the Commission's comment if no response has been received by that date.

Yours faithfully,

Diana Strom

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Dear Ms Strom,

Thank you for your email.

Our response of 20 April 2017 was in response to your email of 31 March
2017 requesting clarification of our response to your FOI request.  Your
email made it clear that you were not requesting an internal review at
that stage.  Before we were able to respond to this email, you wrote in
again on 12 April, this time requesting an internal review.  We continued
with our response of 20 April in the hope that this would negate the need
for an internal review.  This is clearly not the case, and we will now
take forward an internal review.  A further FOI request was made in your
email of 12 April which we will take forward separately.

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Dear Ms Breakspere

Thank you for your April 21 email, confirming that the Commission is now beginning an Internal Review of my original request as asked and for directing me to the contact details for your Press Office.

Yours sincerely

Diana Strom

Business Assurance Casework (Queue), Charity Commission for England and Wales

 

Dear Ms Strom,

Thank you for your email requesting further information.  I have dealt
with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  (I will deal
separately with your request for an internal review.)

You have asked for information on the following and I will respond to each
in turn:

1.        The date on which your response to the Commission’s email of
March 30 2017 was received by the Charity Commission.

           This was received by the Commission on 31 March 2017.

2.        The date that response of March 31 2017 was matched to the
original request and the status log of that original request updated, to
record it was still an active request and a response overdue. 

           Your response of March 31 2017 was matched with the original
request on receipt.  We did not treat it as a new FOI request or as a
continuation of the original request (which we had responded to) but
provided you with a clarification of our original response.

3.        A copy (extract) of the Charity Commission’s record of the
original request’s status and handling as reported to the Ministry of
Justice, or other responsible monitoring Department, when reporting on the
Commission’s handling of FOI cases for the month of March 2017 (or when
reporting for the relevant quarter if that is the method used for such
reports.)

           We report quarterly to the Cabinet Office, and the first
quarter’s statistics are not yet due or prepared.  We therefore do not
hold the information requested.  I would add that we do not report on
individual cases, just on overall number of FOI’s received, etc. 
Quarterly statistics for all government departments are published on
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4.        The number of FOI requests currently being worked on by (or
assigned to) the Charity Commission officer/officers who provided the
Commission’s response of March 30 2017.

           There are no such FOI requests.

If you think our decision is wrong, you can ask for it to be reviewed.  
Such requests should be submitted within three months of the date of our
response and should be addressed to the Charity Commission at PO Box 211,
Bootle, L20 7YX  (email:
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the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted our review
procedure.  The ICO  can be contacted at the Information Commissioner’s
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Dear Ms Breakspere

Thank you for your response to my secondary request, which I am happy to accept as full and complete.

It is interesting to note your confirmation that the officer/officers dealing with my original request had no other FOI requests pending at the time of their response, a factor it is hoped those conducting the Internal Review will also note when considering any 'pressure of work' aspects associated with its efficient and effective handling.

I still consider the original request active and only partially responded to and look forward to receiving the result of the Internal Review by the end of the month.

Thank you for the link to the Cabinet Office recording details, I assume from your response that the Commission does not hold any information on individual requests in any form of internal spreadsheet or database pending compilation of the quarterly CO report - otherwise I am confident you would have provided the requested extract relating to my request, since no exemptions were applied to that part of the secondary request.

I will follow that point up with you and the CO at another time later in the year, just to have absolute confirmation on file should it be needed.

Yours sincerely

Diana Strom

Joshua Snape, Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Dear Ms Strom,

 

Thank you for your emails dated 12^th April 2017 and 21^st April 2017
requesting an Internal Review. I apologise for the delay in responding.

My name is Jan Provost and I am a Freedom of Information and Complaints
manager within the Records, Information, Governance and Assurance Team and
your request for a review has been passed to me to consider. I can confirm
I have had no previous involvement in this case. 

The review has been carried out in line with our published procedures,
which are available at the following link:

 

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The scope of the decision review

In your correspondence of 21^st March you have requested that your
original request of 2^nd March be reviewed for “timeliness, effectiveness
of handling and accuracy of response ALONG WITH its handling of my request
for an Internal Review which appears to have been overlooked or ignored
without explanation or response and without providing the contact details
for the Commission's Press Office as also requested.”

Review of correspondence in relation to original request

Your original request for information was received on 2^nd March 2017 and
was broken down into 5 elements.

The Commission responded to this request under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) on 30^th March 2017 complying with
the 20 day statutory parameter for response.

The response responded to all 5 elements of your request citing elements
1, 2, 4 and 5 as exempt under s 31(1)(g) of the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

Element 3 was cited as exempt under the separate exemption of under 
s40(2) and 40(3)(a)(i) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

You subsequently wrote to the Commission on 31^st March 2017 sating that
you “believe you may simply have overlooked or failed to identify the
above parts of the request, focusing only on that information falling
within the range of the applied exemptions.” And clarified the elements
you believed had not been addressed in bold type as follows:-

1.    A structured chronological list of THE DATES of all correspondence
between the Commission and the Charity that related to the Mrs Yang
fundraiser.  To clarify this part of the request, I am asking for a
'timeline' of correspondence showing the sequence of exchanges between the
Commission and the Charity.

2. HOW MANY Charity Commission officers have dealt with the fundraiser
related concerns and OVER WHAT PERIOD OF TIME EACH, so when responding to
this part of the request please include the number of
days/weeks/months/years each officer was recorded as working on the case
by the Charity Commission, EVEN IF unable to provide their individual
names for Data Protection reasons.

3. To the extent possible please specifically provide ANY INFORMATION HELD
accounting for or explaining any extended (one month or longer) gaps
between Charity Commission exchanges with the Charity on the case or
issues involved.  Please provide the response to this part of the request
in chronological order.

The Commission responded on 20^th April and confirmed that that the
information that you considered as remaining unanswered was assessed as
part of the original FOI and that that information fell under the
exemptions detailed in our letter dated 30 March 2017. This response was
issued to you outside of the FOIA parameters as it was considered not as a
new FOI request but as a clarification on the response of 30^th March 2017
as it was considered these elements to have been already addressed within
the scope of the original reply. This was also stated in the Commissions
response dated 21^st April and 15^th May 2017.

 

Review of response exemptions applied in relation to effective handling
and accuracy of response.

On reviewing your 31^st March 2017 request I do not however consider all
of the elements mentioned above as falling under the exemptions quoted.

As such please see the attached listing of

·        the dates of correspondence between the Commission and the
charity that related to the Mrs Yang fundraiser

 

·        how many charity Commission officers have dealt with the
fundraiser concerns.

 

·        ANY INFORMATION HELD accounting for or explaining any extended
(one month or longer) gaps between Charity Commission exchanges with the
Charity on the case or issues involved.  Please provide the response to
this part of the request in chronological order.

 

In regard to your request

·        what period of time each officer responded.

We do not hold information on the exact time frame for an officer
recording as “working on the case”. Each officers involvement however has
been organised into the chronological order of correspondence between the
officer (by identification letters A,B and C as I consider the previous
exemption applied, s40(2) and 40(3)(a)(i) of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000, regarding the release of individual officers names upheld) and
the charity in relation to the Mrs Yang fundraiser. 

 

Review of timeliness

 

The response to the 31^st March 2017 request was not provided under the
provisions of the FOIA as this was treated as a clarification of your
request, the question of timeliness in relation to the FOIA statutory
response time does not apply.

 

The Commission aims to respond to such queries within 15 working days
however due to high work volumes this is an aim rather than a statutory
set time frame and as such I do not consider the time between your request
and the Commissions response to that request unreasonable in the current
circumstances however this delay could have been acknowledged within our
response to you and as such I apologise for the delay in your receipt of
that response.

 

Please note, to put the above in context, officers dealing with FOIA
requests will also have a case load of other non FOIA related casework.

 

Handling of request for Internal Review

Turning to your request that the review also looks at “its handling of my
request for an Internal Review which appears to have been overlooked or
ignored without explanation or response and without providing the contact
details for the Commission's Press Office as also requested.”

In relation to your email of 12^th April 2017 you stated.

·        Please review the request for timeliness, efficiency of handling
and accuracy of response.

 

·        It would be appreciated if the Internal Review and new FOI
request could be resolved before April 30 2017, as I have an editorial
review deadline to meet for the Los Angeles Times.  If this is not likely
to be possible, please advise and supply contact details for the
Commission's Press Office.

 

The closing paragraphs from the clarification response from the Commission
dated 20^th May 2017 offered a review of the content of that 20^th May
2017 response as standard.

The Commissions response of 15^th May 2017 to your new FOIA request stated
that the review of your request will be dealt with under separate cover
and this email is the separate response to that request. Since this
request I note further contact (our email of 21^st April and your response
of 25^th April 2017) has addressed the matter of the Press Office contact
details.

 

I note your request to “advise and supply Contact Details for the
Commissions Press Office” should the internal review and new FOIA not be
forthcoming before your editorial review deadline.

 

Since this request I note further contact regarding this (our email of
21^st April and your response of 25^th April 2017) has addressed the
matter of the Press Office contact details.

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The above correspondence concludes my review of your case however if you
are unhappy with the decisions, you may apply to the Information
Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted
at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9.

 

Yours sincerely

Ms Jan Provost

 

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Dear Ms Provost

Thank you for your time and effort in conducting the requested Internal Review, which fully satisfies all of the points apparently overlooked by the officer initially responding.

I consider the request met in full, so far as was possible given the exemptions which properly applied in relation to the other material withheld.

I note with interest the eight month gap in exchanges at the end of the chronological list, occurring after the handover of responsibility from one officer or team to another. In the context of the Article, which I can share has recently shifted from its initial focus to the wider issues of unsupervised and uncoordinated fundraising by charity supporters/volunteers, within which your response will appear we will simply summarize the time-frame of the Commission's engagement with the charity make no direct comment.

As already agreed with your colleague RK in the Commission's Press Office, an advance copy of the Article will be supplied to the Commission the day prior to publication (around the end of this month) along with a link to the Article on the LA Times website.

My thanks for your attention, impartial handling and general thoroughness in conducting the Review.

Diana