Ganesh Sittampalam
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2008
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I make a range of requests, mainly aimed at getting the raw material behind aspects of current affairs that interest me.
I'm also keen on holding public authorities to account when they persistently or wilfully breach the FOI Act.
I'm also a WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer, helping to run the site. Anything I do in this capacity will be explicitly marked as such; the rest of the time I don't represent anyone but myself.
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This person's 166 Freedom of Information requests
Numbers of complaints
Response by Judicial Conduct Investigations Office to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Refused.
Dear Ganesh Sittampalam,
Please find attached response to your internal review application.
Yours sincerely
Eileen Mannion
Senior Caseworker
JCIO
T...
Govia Thameslink franchise documents
Response by Department for Transport to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Sittampalam,
Please find attached reply to your Freedom of Information request.
[1][IMG] Mr Jeaur Rahman
Corres...
GTR monthly performance reports
Response by Department for Transport to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Sittampalam,
Please find attached reply to your Freedom of Information request.
[1][IMG] Mr Jeaur Rahman
Corresponde...
Stonehaven action plan
Response by Aberdeenshire Council to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Sittampalam
I refer to the Scottish Information Commissioner's Decision Notice
113/2016. The attached information complies with that Dec...
Dear Mr Sittampalam
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)
Thank you for your enquiry, received on 17th April 2016, requesting the following informat...
Password for alpha added pension calculator spreadsheet
Response by Cabinet Office to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Information not held.
Please find attached the reply to your recent internal review request
Regards
FOI Team
Room 405
70 Whitehall,
London, SW1A 2AS ...
Procedures for handling FOI requests made via WhatDoTheyKnow.com
Response by University of Southampton to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Awaiting internal review.
Dear Sir,
We refer to your request for information, internal review and your complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Your request is for...
List of employees
Response by Leybourne Parish Council to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Partially successful.
Hi Ganesh.
The internal review has been carried out by two Councillors.
They have upheld my decision that given the limited number of staff and limit...
Kings Cross gateline instructions
Response by Network Rail Limited to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Partially successful.
Reference number: FOI2015/00928
Dear Mr Sittampalam,
Please find attached our response to your Freedom of Information request.
If you have any quer...
Priory Park double roundabouts
Response by Cambridgeshire County Council to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Successful.
Dear Ganesh Sittampalam,
I am writing with regard to your request for information, which was
received on 27 March.
Please find attached th...
meaning of code numbers for announcements at tube stations
Withdrawn by the requester.
The codes are here: http://londonist.com/2012/02/code-2-on-platform-4-the-meaning-of-tube-cleaner-codes.php
Great Northern complaints procedure
Response by Office of Rail and Road to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Sittampalam,
Please see attached, our response to your Freedom of Information request
of 22^nd February 2015.
Yours sincerely
...
Commissioner's expense claims
Response by Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Partially successful.
Dear Ganesh
In reply to your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, dated December 16, 2014 below.
The Freedom of Informa...
King's Cross escalator work
Response by Transport for London to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Sittampalam
Our ref: FOI-1462-1415
Thank you for your email received on 1 December 2014 asking for
information about King's Cross...
Sent on behalf of Publication Scheme Co-ordinator
FAO: Ganesh Sittampalam
Thank you for your enquiry under Freedom of Information. The Principal's cu...
The Commissioner has rejected my complaint, apart from the trivial extra information that the council released in their most recent reply:
https://ic...
Hugging hazards
Response by Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Sittampalam,
Please find attached our response to your request for information.
Yours sincerely,
Alastair O’Neill
Informati...
Guidance regarding checking phones at the roadside
Response by The Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Information not held.
Good afternoon Mr Sittampalam
Please find attached completed Internal Review relating to your ACPO FOI
request reference 132/14.
With kind reg...
Please find attached the reply to your recent Internal Review request
Regards
FOI Team
1 Horse Guards Road
London...
Documents relating to the Twitter Joke Trial
Response by Crown Prosecution Service to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Partially successful.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
Dear Mr Sittampalam,
Please find the attached response to your recent FoI request.
Yours sincerely,
Miss H Hardaker...
Just testing something with BCC - if you see this in the Holding pen
please leave it for now.
Closed file on Information for the revision of the Cabinet Office Precedent Book
Response by Cabinet Office to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Refused.
Please find attached further information about your case.
Regards
FOI Team
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ...
Shrewsbury 24 exemption
Response by Ministry of Justice to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Sittampalam
Please find attached the Ministry of Justice's response to the above FOI
request, sent on behalf of my colleague Julianne Pete...
Twitter joke trial
Partially successful.
The ICO has rejected my complaint (FS50479441) on the grounds that s32 and s42 are engaged, after the CPS changed their position during the Commissione...
Confidential Annex for FS50429761
Response by Information Commissioner’s Office to Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Successful.
PROTECT
6 December 2013
Case Reference Number RCC0520187
Dear Mr Sittampalam,
Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Co...
This person's 768 annotations
Will you be appealing to the ICO?
Stonehaven action plan
Partially successful.
SICO decision: http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/uploadedFiles/Decision113-2016.pdf
Stonehaven action plan
Partially successful.
The Scottish ICO has ordered disclosure of significant parts of the withheld information, that seems to go beyond what I asked for in my internal revie...
Registration of Overseas Voters
Successful.
The hidden email address for complaining about problems with registration is elections at bathnes.gov.uk
Ganesh - WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer
OPIs issued since Aug 2012
Refused.
The Information Tribunal has previously found that an authority can't automatically claim s12 late:
http://www.informationtribunal.gov.uk/DBFiles/Dec...
Community Empowerment Fund - Meetings
Request to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council by Jake Kirkman. Annotated by Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Partially successful.
The ICO's guidance on receipt of requests is here:
https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1165/time-for-compliance-foia-guidance.pdf...
List of .ac.uk domain names
Successful.
This request was used as source material for this blog post about LOC records for ac.uk domains: http://fanf.livejournal.com/138986.html
ICT Information
Successful.
The authority's response was sent from an unmonitored email account, so the attempt to reply to that address failed.
When writing a reply, select th...
QE Facilities
Request to Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust by Anne Cashman. Annotated by Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Partially successful.
Having considered the Trust's representations, we have decided to unhide the mistaken release above (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/qe_faciliti...
Procurement details
Information not held.
Our mail logs show that the clarification email of 3rd June was accepted by the council's email servers at the time it was sent. It was sent to the add...
Please advise
Request to Derbyshire Districts Purchasing Consortium by Andrew Gatland. Annotated by Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
I've marked this as withdrawn as it's well over a year old and we can't find any alternate contacts for the authority or (like the requester) any evide...
Response to public admission of failure by Inner London Coroner
Partially successful.
This request was sent by WDTK to the email address advertised on https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice (data.access at justic...
Procedures for handling FOI requests made via WhatDoTheyKnow.com
Awaiting internal review.
With my WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer hat on, I've checked the mail logs and this request was successfully delivered to the Southampton University mail serv...
Living Wage
Long overdue.
The link the council provided doesn't work.
Letter to developers drafted on 19 Oct 2010
Long overdue.
I've marked this as "still waiting for a response" as the Council neither sends the document nor says where it could be found at the time of their resp...
CRB Checks
Long overdue.
The Council appear to have responded to a completely unrelated FOI request instead of the one asked here.
The cost of ICT services to schools
Partially successful.
The council seems to have omitted the promised attachment.
I've deleted the spam and blocked new correspondence to this thread.
We try to keep the email addresses for responding to a request hidden so only t...
Independent Schools Inspectorate
Refused.
I have now moved the response that was sent to the incorrect request to this request.
Ganesh - WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer
University of Greenwich Coal and Tidal Research
Successful.
The request was sent to the "role" address for FOI queries, and so has hopefully also been received by other members of the FOI team.
Ganesh - WhatDo...
I've marked this as rejected as it wasn't obvious to me where the statistics are on the HESA site after a bit of digging around.
Traffic Management Orders, Green Dale, Southwark
Long overdue.
The council appear to have forgotten to actually attach the orders they refer to.
Locum Spend
Request to Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust by Isaac Khan. Annotated by Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Successful.
The answers to Questions 1 and 2 are contained in the attached bitmaps linked at the top of this response.
Supporting people with a learning disability in the General Election 2015
Request to Mid and East Antrim District Council by Vijay Patel. Annotated by Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Long overdue.
Mid & East Antrim Council have contacted us to let us know that they have not received this request. Our mail logs show that the request was successful...
Salaries
Request to Mid and East Antrim District Council by Andrew McNair. Annotated by Ganesh Sittampalam on .
Awaiting classification.
Mid & East Antrim Council have contacted us to let us know that they have not received this request. Our mail logs show that the request was successful...