Arthur Hurworth
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 25)
Klonowski Report
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by ScarletPimpernel on .
Refused
As it may interest the FOI requester, I've recently published the appendices to the Anna Klonowski Associates report here http://johnbrace.com/2013/11/...
Well done Arthur (and thanks also to Wirral's FOI team) you have enabled the release of one of the most significant documents relating to investigation...
Not Reading FOI requests
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Arthur Hurworth on .
Refused
[1]http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/not_reading_foi_requests?unfold=1#incoming-308234
Good Afternoon,
With regards to your enquiry at...
Allotments
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Arthur Hurworth on .
Partially successful
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your email below. To clarify for you, the answer given
regarding appointment of site secretaries is correct and is t...
Data Protection / Foi Act
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Arthur Hurworth on .
Information not held
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your enquiry. The Council has no recorded information to supply to you in relation to your enquiry. To advise you further...
Suspended Directors
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
Good Afternoon
Upon reviewing outstanding enquiries, I note that this query remains
unanswered. Wirral Council would like to apologies for the dela...
allotment
Internal review request sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth on .
Awaiting internal review
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
Not only has the site secretary of Harris allotment site broken the Data Protection Act, but he also broke the council's own Dat...
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your email below. I have provided all the recorded
information we hold in relation to your questions. There is no further...
Good Morning,
Thank you for your email below, I have double-checked the link and it is working from this end; also I attached the document in question...
Failure to respond to 85% of FOI requests
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your further email. The statement made by Rob Pett was
correct in that Wirral Council does remain committed to openness a...
Council and Data Protection
Successful
Here is a link to an article, setting out what I feel is the background and true motivation behind Wirral Council's very poor response times.
Notably...
Council spokesperson
Successful
Here is a link to an article, setting out what I feel is the background and true motivation behind Wirral Council's very poor response.
Notably, ther...
Suspended Officer
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth on .
Withdrawn by the requester
By law, the authority should normally have responded to my FOI request promptly and by 20 August 2012
Yours faithfully,
Arthur Hurworth
Council & data Protection
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
I am not in the office currently but I am picking up my emails so will
respond if the matter is urgent.
Jane Corrin
Information Manager
0151 666 35...
Disciplinary Action
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by ScarletPimpernel on .
Information not held
Employment and Appointments Committee
http://democracy.wirral.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeId=197
Appeals Sub-Committee
http://democracy.wir...
Localism act
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by ScarletPimpernel on .
Information not held
In answer to your questions:-
2) Unknown, although applications weren't sent out to people who were approached and said no.
3) More than three (it...
Statutory Allotment sites
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Arthur Hurworth on .
Refused
Good Afternoon,
The Council believes your request is completed.
You have already been advised that the council does not hold any
additional recorded...
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
Once again Jane Corrin, I thank you for the respone.
Yours sincerely,
Arthur Hurworth
Complaints procedure
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
Dear Jane Corrin, thank you for your response, I did not consider for a milly second that the Council whould place on record it...
Internal Review
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
Thank you for your response, 20 days seems a fair time for a review.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Arthur Hurworth
Data Protection
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
Thank you for your quick response, I missed the policy download link.
I am very sorry for my oversight.
Thank You.
Yours si...
Misleading Legal Advice
Clarification sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
Thank you for your resonse.
I find your statment: Wirral Council holds no recorded information to respond to your enquiry,...
Localism act
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
Than You for the information provided, I shall address my questions to the Named People.
Yours sincerely,
Arthur Hurworth
complaints made by allotment tenants and their guests to Law, HR and Asset Management
Internal review request sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth on .
Awaiting internal review
Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,
Thank you for the information provided, I can only assume that as this action has never taken place before, and was done purely...
Allotment Information
Internal review request sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth on .
Awaiting internal review
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Wirral Metropolitan Boro...
This person's 24 annotations
This action does not in the least surprise me, data protection and the council officers that should no better, inc, Rosemary Lyon, say one thing, and a...
Council Debt
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
Thank you for your valuable information.
Arthur
Corporate Governance Committee Meeting 26th October 2011
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
Thanks for the comments, but if there was no police involvement, then their certainly should have been.
And yes WBC got its bad name for many reasons,...
Marketing & Advertising Agency work e.g. Mills Media
Awaiting internal review
Dear Paul,
There is a new Catchphrase that is being more and more used by the CEO, oppenness and transparancy, who does he think he is, a window sales...
Council Debt
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
Thank you, I Servova, if the council wish to play hardball they have chosen the right person to play with.
Many Thanks
Council Debt
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
If the Council considers my request is vexatious, maybe there is something in my question that they do not like or want to divulge to the people of Wir...
Council spokesperson
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
I totally concur with your views
Council spokesperson
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
Thank you for your annotation, as you state rightly, there are very specific reasons why Wirral MBC get so many FOI requests, Why bleet that they get m...
Marketing & Advertising Agency work e.g. Mills Media
Awaiting internal review
Dear Mr Cardin,
At a time unprecidented cut backs in funding, I was shocked but not surprised by the answer given to you above and printed in the Wir...
Dear Mr Cardin,
What an unfortunate situation you are in having your request dealt with by the Legal Services of WBC.
From personal experience over a...
Not Reading FOI requests
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by Arthur Hurworth on .
Refused
Paul Staples.
If you have nothing better to do with your time than critisising other peoples FOI requests, May I suggest you to join Wirral Borough Cou...
Appointment of Allotment Site Secretaries
Partially successful
To P H Newton.
In your FOI request on the 19th April 2012, the Council's FOI officer gave you false information in her last paragraph.
you do not need...
Not Reading FOI requests
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by Arthur Hurworth on .
Refused
Thanks for your annotation I. Sevova.
WBC are well known for somehow making the possible be impossible.
My FOI request has been placed because of WBC's...
Agreed Departure of Chief Executive Officer Jim Wilkie on 7th June 2012
Partially successful
No, getting blood out of a stone is much, much easier.
Keep plugging away, sooner or later, possibly later you will get some of the info asked for.
Governance
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by John H Hutchinson. Annotated by Arthur Hurworth on .
Successful
There is a simple answer to your last question in your review, that is NO.
Thanks.
Audit Commission 'Highways and engineering services contract award and management' Report
Withdrawn by the requester
I hope you are a patient person now your request for information has been passed to Law HR and asset Management.
They will try to come up with some me...
Audit Commission 'Highways and engineering services contract award and management' Report
Withdrawn by the requester
You are asking the Council tricky questions that they do not want anyone to ask, Wirral Borough Council did not get the name "Wirral were the abnormal...
Access to cctv
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Dear Amanda
Do not pay any fine, you now have proof council are "dealing" with your request, furthermore If they cannot provide "proof" tell them to ta...
Dear Mr Sheffield, WBC are already on the ICO's files for breaching the DPA,The ICO have very recently adujicated against them, and are holding the inf...
WBC - Legal Department Tasks
Successful
Wirral Borough Councils Legal Department are there purely to bat any compromising issues into the long grass or if that does not work try and find a cl...
Access to cctv
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If Wirral Council refuse to let you have a copy of the CCTV requested, or a clear still image of the "fouling", refuse to pay any penalty notice, as th...
Good luck with your request, but from personal experience WBC does not give a damm about Data Protection, they consider they are beyond the law, and th...
allotment
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Arthur Hurworth. Annotated by Arthur Hurworth on .
Awaiting internal review
The DPA is the Data Protection Act,
hope this enlightens you to the illegal action condoned by Wirral Borough Council.
WIRRAL METROPOLITAIN BOROUGH COUNCIL are already on the ICO's watch list.
see wirralleaks website.