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Ben Harris
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2008
I'm a volunteer administrator on WhatDoTheyKnow (see <http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/credi...>). Any annotations I make in an administrative capacity will be signed “Ben Harris, WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer”. Otherwise, I speak only for myself.
My Web site is at <http://bjh21.me.uk/>.
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 90) (page 4)
The Council have now told me that this request took over 30 hours of officer time to collate. Ref <http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/11886/respons...
The City of Cambridge (Civil Enforcement Area) (Waiting Restrictions and Street Parking Places) Order 2008
Partially successful.
Yes, I found that decision yesterday where you'd posted it on another request. Thank you.
I suspect that if I challenged this I might win, but at pr...
Bridge Street Area Cambridge Order 1998
Successful.
It turns out that WhatDoTheyKnow now has a feature allowing one to change the state of a request even when no response has been received, so I've done...
This seems to have been answered (more or less) over in <http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bridge_street_area_cambridge_ord>.
Traffic signs: plate 954.4 with sign 616
Response by Department for Transport to Ben Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Harris
Please find attached the reply to your Freedom of Information request
numbered F0004997.
Kind regards
Judith Tracey
Traff...
The City of Cambridge Area Z (Consolidation) Order 1991
Follow up sent to Cambridgeshire County Council by Ben Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Ms Oakes,
Thank you. That one seems much better.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Harris
Text of certain traffic signs authorisations in Cambridge
Response by Department for Transport to Ben Harris on .
Successful.
Judith1 Tracey Department for Transport
31 December 2008 Dear Mr Harris
Thank you for your email.
I had forgotten about the earlier authorisation...
While CCC didn't usefully respond to this request, DfT were able to provide me with a (paper) copy of what appears to be the only relevant authorisatio...
While CCC haven't usefully responded to this, DfT did manage to find the authorisation (but not the corresponding plans or diagrams) in their archives....
Traffic signs authorisations for Cambridge
Follow up sent to Department for Transport by Ben Harris on .
Partially successful.
Dear Ms Tracey,
Thank you; that's actually more useful than it looks.
Anyway, I think I've finally run out of questions for you, at least for the t...
Plan GT46/20/14-36: locations marked "C"
Successful.
I also received a list of the locations marked "C" by private (marked as confidential) e-mail.
Authorisations for unusual signs in Cambridge
Partially successful.
The third one of these has been answered in <http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/plan_gt462014_36_locations_marke>, where the council says:
"Theor...
Authorisations for "no entry" signs in central Cambridge
Request sent to Cambridgeshire County Council by Ben Harris on .
Long overdue.
Dear Sir or Madam,
This request is a follow-up to
<http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/authorised_traffic_signs_in_camb>
(your reference FOI/ECS/...
Authorised traffic signs in Cambridge
Partially successful.
I haven't scanned them, largely because they're both dull and a bit of a copyright nightmare (part DfT, part OS, part Cambridge City and Cambridgeshire...
... and the one on St Mary's Passage (I had to go and measure it first).
<http://www.fixmystreet.com/report/34507>
This person's 428 annotations (page 4)
Derby College have told us that they didn't receive this request, so I shall re-send it.
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Ben Harris, WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer.
Temporary Staff
Long overdue.
I've asked Southport College if they can make their FOI email address work. Meanwhile, I've arranged to use another less suitable one that I found on...
RSPCA - 219099
Successful.
This request is a duplicate of <http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/rspca_219099_3>, which received a substantive reply.
GP Practice Managers
Request to Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) by Marc Cousins. Annotated by Ben Harris on .
Successful.
I’ve put an uncensored copy of the attachment at <http://files.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gp_practice_managers_21/RequestX32711XPracticeXManagerXContac...
GP Practice Managers
Successful.
I’ve put a less censored copy of the body of this message at <http://files.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gp_practice_managers_43/part2.html>.
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Ben H...
Digital Dictation
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by Marc Cousins. Annotated by Ben Harris on .
Successful.
It looks like the trust has an over-enthusiastic spam filter. I've asked them if they can adjust it.
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Ben Harris, WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer.
GP Practice Managers Email addresses.
Successful.
Here are the email addresses from that message:
Adrienne Fielding............................................... adrienne.fielding@nhs.net
Amanda Ph...
GP Practice Managers Email addresses.
Successful.
An uncensored version of the attachment is available from <http://files.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gp_practice_managers_email_addre_194/PrcaticeXContac...
Statistics for operations refused to patients on the grounds that they are smokers or obese
Request to Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust by Ryan Peters. Annotated by Ben Harris on .
Information not held.
You can request information from United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust here:
<http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/united_lincolnshire_hospitals_nhs_...
Alcohol abuse
Request to Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust by Lucy Vince. Annotated by Ben Harris on .
Information not held.
There may be some confusion here, which I hope I can clear up a little.
When Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust was set up (and added t...
I find MDHC’s claim not to be a public authority rather confusing. As far as I can tell, they were granted the right to nominate constables by article...
Actual cost of HS2
Long overdue.
The reply dated 22nd September above is the one with a mistyped address, which I found in our pile of misaddressed email.
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Ben Harris, WhatDoThey...
Best practice in mental health services for people with a learning disability (green light toolkit)
Request to Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust (PCT) by liz jones. Annotated by Ben Harris on .
Information not held.
I've checked the raw form of the above response dated 27th September. As far as I can see, it doesn't have an attachment.
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Ben Harris, WhatDoThe...
Civil Partnerships
Successful.
I've moved the messages referred to above, and tried to arrange that future misdirected responses are brought to the attention of the WhatDoTheyKnow te...
London Libraries Consortium referral links.
Successful.
The above acknowledgement and recall message, both dated 24th August, were sent by Tower Hamlets Council to the address for a different request. We on...
Complaints about AV vote and polling stations
Successful.
The above message dated 2nd June was sent by Tower Hamlets Council to the address for a different request and it has taken us a little while to find it...
Application for City Status
Successful.
The acknowledgement message above was sent to the address for a different request, which is why I only found it today and hence why it appears out of o...
List of Tier 3 Veterinary hospitals
Awaiting internal review.
In case it turns out to be significant, this request and its follow-up were sent to <admin@rcvs.org.uk> and were accepted by RCVS's email servers (appa...
Request to leave WhatDoTheyKnow.com
Partially successful.
I would note that technically, a statement of "no information held" is not a refusal, in that it's not covered by section 17 (and hence by the requirem...
Vexatious or unreasonable complaints procedure
Long overdue.
The above two outgoing messages, dated 1st and 2nd September, were in response to messages misdirected here from a different request:
<http://www.wha...
Vexatious or unreasonable complaints procedure
Successful.
The above message dated 2nd September was similarly misdirected. E Doherty replied:
Dear Ms Tarrant,
Thank you for this.
This document confirms...
Vexatious or unreasonable complaints procedure
Successful.
Owing to mistakes at both Essex County Council and WhatDoTheyKnow, the above message dated 1st September was initially assigned to the wrong request:...
For some reason, the council have attached a Microsoft Word document with a name ending ".pdf". This confuses our system a little, so here's the same...
School Role and Capacity Information
Successful.
It seems that WhatDoTheyKnow's mechanism for censoring email addresses and mobile phone numbers in incoming messages caused some corruption of the maps...
Retained Duty System callouts
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Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service originally acknowledged this request on 22nd June 2011. The attachment "ACKNOWLEDGEMENT letter Reference 182011 copy....