Your review of the country's readiness for a Covid-19 second wave

The request was refused by Cabinet Office.

Dear Cabinet Office,

If it exists, please kindly provide a copy of your review of the country's readiness for a Covid-19 second wave. We asked the department of health and they claimed you have it.

If available, we're particularly interested in the status of this review as of June 2020.

For public ref: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...

Yours faithfully,

Amanda Hart
for Stop UK lies and Corruption.

FOI Team Mailbox, Cabinet Office

CABINET OFFICE REFERENCE:  FOI2020/10342

Dear AMANDA HART

Thank you for your request for information. Your request was received
on 30/7/2020 and we are considering if it is appropriate to deal with
under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

This email is just a short acknowledgement of your request.

When corresponding with the Cabinet Office, you may wish to be aware of
how we treat your personal Information.  This is set out in our personal
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If you have any queries about this email, please contact the FOI team.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

Yours sincerely,

 Knowledge and Information Management Unit

Cabinet Office

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Dear Cabinet Office,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Cabinet Office's handling of my FOI request 'Your review of the country's readiness for a Covid-19 second wave'.

We understand there will be a delay in providing this information but as there have been no changes to the time limits at which we can request an internal review it must therefore be entered today. The purpose of the internal review will be for you to look into when the information we requested will be supplied.

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

Yours faithfully,

Amanda Hart
for Stop UK lies and Corruption.

FOI Team Mailbox, Cabinet Office

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Please find attached the reply to your FOI request

 

 

 

Regards

 

 

FOI Team

Room 405

70 Whitehall,

London, SW1A 2AS

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Dear FOI Team Mailbox,

FOI2020 10342

Thanks for your refusal due to 'formulation of policy'. We respectfully reject this because you could have reasonably provided a redacted version to protect 'formulation of policy'.

We are only interested in remaining passages not covered by censorship rules under the Freedom of Information Act such as, for instance, those concerning active policies.

Since we've been through the request stage and internal review stage (we note no internal review has been provided, despite our request for one), this will now be passed onto the Information Commissioner to deal with.

Yours sincerely,

Amanda Hart
for Stop UK lies and Corruption.

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Reported to ICO 8th September 2020

FOI Team Mailbox, Cabinet Office

Dear Amanda Hart,
Thank you for your email.
The internal review stage you refer to was requesting an update on when
the FOI reply would be sent. The FOI reply was sent to you shortly after
this.
You are free to request an Internal Review in to this reply.
 

Regards

 

FOI Team

Room 405

70 Whitehall,

London, SW1A 2AS

E-mail -[1][Cabinet Office request email] 

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Dear FOI Team Mailbox,

Thanks for your message. It may be helpful if we provide a summary of events.

On 30th July 2020 we requested a copy of review of the country's readiness for a Covid-19 second wave.
On 2nd August 2020 you assigned the request with code FOI2020/10342.
On 2nd September 2020 when you failed to supply a valid response to our request (other than to assign it with code FOI2020/10342 we asked for an internal review.
On 8th September 2020 you send us a response headed with FOI2020/10342 with no mention of any internal review code, thus it is clearly a Freedom of Information response not an internal review response. To-date we have received no internal review response.

Thanks for the final piece of information though. We shall request a second internal review - this time on your refusal to provide the information we asked for on 30th July instead of redacting the passages of concern.

Yours sincerely,

Amanda Hart
for Stop UK lies and Corruption.

Dear Cabinet Office,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Cabinet Office's handling of my FOI request 'Your review of the country's readiness for a Covid-19 second wave'.

Referring to your refusal to provide information requested on FOI2020/10342

Thanks for your refusal due to 'formulation of policy'. We respectfully reject this because you could have reasonably provided a redacted version to protect 'formulation of policy'.

We are only interested in remaining passages not covered by censorship rules under the Freedom of Information Act such as, for instance, those concerning active policies.

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

Yours faithfully,

Amanda Hart
for Stop UK lies and Corruption.

FOI Team Mailbox, Cabinet Office

CABINET OFFICE REFERENCE:  IR2020/12237

Dear Amanda Hart

Thank you for your request for an internal review. Your request was
received on 09/09/2020 and is being dealt with under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.

This email is just a short acknowledgement of your request.

If you have any queries about this email, please contact the FOI team.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

Yours sincerely,

Knowledge and Information Management Unit

Cabinet Office

E: [1][Cabinet Office request email]

 

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Old ref: IC-55599-V6Z2
We have been asked by the ICO to allow 40 working days for the new internal review to be completed. Therefore they may be contacted again on 5th November 2020.

Cabinet Office FOI Team,

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Dear Amanda Hart,

Please find attached our response to your request for an Internal Review
(reference IR2020/12237).

Yours sincerely,

FOI Team