Dave Orr
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This person's 214 Freedom of Information requests
Following ICO DN FS50579155 - Info re termination of Interim DCS Peter Lewis in Oct'2014
Follow up sent to Somerset County Council by Dave Orr on .
Refused.
This FOI has now been appealed to the ICO.
Yours sincerely,
Dave Orr
Count & Breakdown of FOI requests for calendar year 2015
Follow up sent to Somerset County Council by Dave Orr on .
Long overdue.
SCC has been rapid with FOI responses regarding former Interim DCS Peter Lewis but this FOI remains unanswered.
When will this FOI (about FOIs) be...
Conduct and behaviours of a retired senior Police Officer.
Response by Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner to Dave Orr on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Orr
Please find attached a response to your request for an internal review.
Jeff Hines
Information Access Manager
Corporate...
Is the NAO aware of the serious IBM/SW1 SAP IT Controls security issue at Avon & Somerset Constabulary?
Partially successful.
A member of NAO staff contacted us with concerns that her signature was online. We have today therefore hidden that response and uploaded a new version...
Unitary charge payments to IBM/South West One 2013/14 to 2014/15
Response by Taunton Deane Borough Council to Dave Orr on .
Successful.
Dear Requester
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Information Request FOI – TD1122
Response
This is Taunton Deane Borough Council’...
Is the Workforce Planning fully implemented and the with-held payment to IBM/SWOne now made?
Response by Avon and Somerset Constabulary to Dave Orr on .
Successful.
Corporate Information Management Department
Force Headquarters, PO Box 37, Valley Road,
Portishead, Bristol, BS20 8QJ
Facsimile 01275 814667
Em...
From the 1st of April 2014 to present date: Please disclose Risk Logs.
Response by South West Audit Partnership to Dave Orr on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Orr Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding
to your request, I can confirm that the information you requested
is being withhel...
Audit and planning for the IT in Children's Services.
Response by Somerset County Council to Dave Orr on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Orr
Please find attached the internal review of your information request ref
141773.
Yours sincerely
Louisa Gosling
Inform...
Has the Council made any submissions/representations regarding the FOI Act (since & including May 2013)?
Response by Somerset County Council to Dave Orr on .
Information not held.
Information request
Our reference: 319033
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Dear Mr Orr
Thank you...
Please provide a list of "off payroll" contractors/agency etc staff who cost £50K or more/year and have been working at SCC > 6 months?
Follow up sent to Somerset County Council by Dave Orr on .
Successful.
Thanks for chasing up this information from the relevant Directorates.
Yours sincerely,
Dave Orr
Procurement of Bob Baber Associates.
Response by Taunton Deane Borough Council to Dave Orr on .
Successful.
Dear Requester
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Information Request FOI – Ref.TD874
Response
This is Taunton Deane B...
Role of client councils s151 Officer.
Response by South West Audit Partnership to Dave Orr on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Orr
Thank you for clarifying your request as below. I can confirm that in relation to the Board of Directors meetings from 1st April, 2014 unt...
Councillor Dawn Hill as a Director of SWAP.
Response by South West Audit Partnership to Dave Orr on .
Partially successful.
SOUTH WEST AUDIT PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
Company Number 08215338
Minutes of a meeting of the directors of the above named company (the “Company”)
Held in...
Please disclose alleged breaches of the Royal Town Planners Institute (RTPI) Code of Conduct 2010-2015
Response by Taunton Deane Borough Council to Dave Orr on .
Partially successful.
Dear Requester
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Information Request FOI – TD784
Response
This is Taunton Deane Borough Counc...
Please disclose alleged breaches of the Royal Town Planners Institute (RTPI) Code of Conduct 2010-2015
Response by Somerset County Council to Dave Orr on .
Partially successful.
This is an Official email sent from Somerset County Council.
Internal Reference: 141845a
Date request received: 08/06/2015
Date response due: 06/...
Please disclose Tim Burton & colleagues CPD plan (under the RITP Code of Conduct)
Response by Taunton Deane Borough Council to Dave Orr on .
Information not held.
Dear Requester
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Information Request FOI – Ref. TD734
Response
This is Taunton Deane Borough...
Due diligence and references for (interim) Director of Adult Social Services (DASS) Kim Curry?
Partially successful.
The Tax payer pays Ms Curry £793 per day (ex VAT), plus £100 per day expenses, yet she's incapable of answering one email I sent her. How is that good...
Developer[s] and/or their agent[s] Meeting Notes for Jurston Farm (planning ref 43/14/0130)
Follow up sent to Taunton Deane Borough Council by Dave Orr on .
Refused.
This final email documents the basis for my appeal to the ICO for this EIR refusal by TDBC:
From: David Orr
To: "James, Penny" <[email address]>...
Does the Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust keep delayed discharge figures that are social care attributable?
Follow up sent to Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust by Dave Orr on .
Successful.
Thank you for pointing out the link in the previous disclosure, which wasn't clickable as the PDF wasn't created from the electronic document and lo...
To resolve conflicting accounts, please disclose all communications between former Interim DCS Peter Lewis & CEO Pat Flaherty.
Follow up sent to Somerset County Council by Dave Orr on .
Refused.
This refusal has now been appealed to the ICO and has been accepted for investigation under Case Ref FS50579155.
I would have thought that in the...
Please disclose delayed discharge figures for the months of January 2015 through to the end of March 2015.
Response by Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to Dave Orr on .
Refused.
Dear Sir
Re: delayed discharge data Jan - Mar 2015.
The Trust confirms it is already in receipt of an identical request to that outlined below which i...
Developer[s] and/or their agent[s] Meeting Notes for Jurston Farm (planning ref 43/14/0130)
Follow up sent to Somerset County Council by Dave Orr on .
Successful.
Thank you for an exemplary response and in particular, providing the glossary list of initials and acronyms.
I will reflected this back to TDBC wh...
“The True Measure of Any Society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members” – Ghandi
No wonder there is no money left to fulfil the d...
Children's Services said to have "a poorly functioning IT system was taking up the precious time of frontline staff & senior managers"
Response by Somerset County Council to Dave Orr on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Orr
Further to your follow up questions please see our response below. Please
note that the majority of these questions are not asking...
Supporting documents for SCC Pay Polciy Statement
Response by Somerset County Council to Dave Orr on .
Partially successful.
Internal Reference: 141119
Date request received: 21/10/2014
Date response due: 18/11/2014
Date of actual response: 20/11/2014
Follow up to res...
This person's 40 annotations
From: David Orr [mailto:david.m.orr@btinternet.com]
Sent: 06 April 2016 13:58
To: Louisa Gosling
Cc: Peter Grogan
Subject: Re: Trying to locate FO...
Barrister costs
Refused.
If the invoices are for the 2015/16 year then when the Police accounts are open (usually around June for 4 weeks) and you are a taxpayer in Avon & Some...
Brenda - Thank you for your annotation. The much delayed FOI (by almost 6 months) has disclosed sufficient information to fulfil the principled purpose...
Managers receiving a 'market supplement' or other similar remuneration in addition to base salary
Awaiting classification.
Re:
G4 – 1 recipient - £302.25 per month – Recruitment Allowance
G5 – 1 recipient - £1,830.00 per month – Higher Graded Duties Undertaken
G6 – 1...
Follow up information request for correspondence re ref PL/rb/FOI2/002191
Partially successful.
The previous FOI that relates to this follow-up is on:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/did_somerset_county_council_scc#outgoing-420502
Will the Constabulary consider and review the Somerset County Council "Lessons Learnt" report?
Information not held.
Errata.
SCC Committee page for reports here (see Agenda Item 7):
http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/council/meetings/reports.asp?item=1116
"Lessons lear...
Will the PCC consider and review the Somerset County Council "Lessons Learnt" report?
Information not held.
Errata.
SCC Committee page for reports here (see Agenda Item 7):
http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/council/meetings/reports.asp?item=1116
"Lessons lear...
Complaints Procedure
Awaiting internal review.
Dear Brenda,
There may be two routes to address what is clearly a lack of formal procedure & information flow in the serious matters you raise:
a) Yo...
Killams (Taunton South) planning and s106/CIL notes
Partially successful.
Shockingly bad practice by Somerset County Council revealed, together with incorrect information being given by a Senior Manager about the note taking...
Please disclose the SCC IT Software Asset Log.
Partially successful.
Dear Somerset County Council Finance Director & s106 Officer,
In the absence of the promised IT Asset Logs last September, I did follow up with you a...
When was SAP last formally security assessed?
Partially successful.
Hi Tom.
I do live in the ASC area, so 101 fine.
I wanted the report disclosed electronically as I have fibre hi speed broadband but was told the re...
Marcin,
Thanks. I have just appealed to the ICO and my MEP is seeking information from EU as you suggest.
I may also follow up.
Thanks for your h...
When was SAP last formally security assessed?
Partially successful.
Tom - I agree.
The original (un-redacted) shared SAP security report is here:
http://www.liddellgrainger.org.uk/images/DOCUMENTS/Grant_Thornton_Re...
Marcin - Thanks for the reminder & I have responded appropriately as you suggested.
Please disclose all relevant legal & planning correspondence relating to the Killams "silent" judgement ref.38/12/0203
Long overdue.
This request has now been referred to the ICO on appeal with Case Reference Number FS50502951.
External Legal Support for Southwest One Contract
Partially successful.
Tony - They have pre-election avoided disclosing the 2013/14 costs of fighting the IBM lawsuit re SW1 said to be £2m (only the settlement figure is con...
External Legal Support for Southwest One Contract
Partially successful.
Tony - Cut & paste their response here as a comment please for open disclosure.
Is that a "cunning ploy" to avoid the truth coming out BEFORE the Cou...
External Legal Support for Southwest One Contract
Partially successful.
Tony - You could take SCC to Internal Review now, but that adds 20 working days and takes them past the County Council elections in early May - the cyn...
External Legal Support for Southwest One Contract
Partially successful.
The BBC say that £2m was spent on legal costs:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-21965545
Why haven't you been told then?
External Legal Support for Southwest One Contract
Partially successful.
Is this delay being driven by the politics of an election in early May and the pre-election purdah on 5th April?
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Some...
I did receive a paper copy of Schedule 39 and I could scan it all and post on Scribd.
Before I go to that effort, can you tell me what your interest...
Allegedly vexatious - what is the current situation?
Partially successful.
Hi Alan,
I have been a persistent campaigner in Somerset to try and find out the true costs and savings from the controversial Joint Venture Southwes...
SMART Office Business Case / authority to proceed / project delivery governance
Partially successful.
Tony,
January 29th, Somerset Council's main Scrutiny committee is set to dscuss SMART Office capital expenditure, but unusually in a CLOSED (non-publ...
From: #PCC
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 3:22 PM
To: Dave Orr
Cc: #PCC
Subject: Freedom of Information request - FOI00299
Dear Mr Orr
RE:...
Brenda - The link is to this FOI (not IBM/SW1).
And congrats on your recent award.