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J Roberts
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This person's 298 Freedom of Information requests
99% increase in adverse decision rate for JSA claimants
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to J Roberts on .
Information not held.
J Roberts
Please see copy of your FoI request attached
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Central Freedom of Informati...
MP referrals for the year 2016/17
Successful.
I'm please they changed their mind. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Bernard Jenkin (45 referrals) did the work of ten! But did he make r...
Letter to ESA claimants about mandatory Health and Work Conversation
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to J Roberts on .
Successful.
Please see the attached reply and accompanying attachment to your Freedom
of Information request.
Yours sincerely
DWP Strategy...
Sickness absences
Partially successful.
Comparing the PHSO with the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales is illuminating:
"During the year, an average of 4.0 days per employee were lost thro...
J Roberts wrote the following:
"49 staff recruited in September 2015, of whom 15 have either left or have formally expressed an interest in leaving w...
Telephone communications and communications by electronic means
Partially successful.
I meant 10 July 2017!
Withheld names of RHI beneficiaries
Response by Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland) to J Roberts on .
Refused.
Dear J Roberts,
The response to your request for information was issued on 14th June 2017, however, unfortunately I issued this to an incorrect whatd...
Maybe actions of PHSO CCT team is reason I haven't heard from anyone yet ......not even Rob Brehens.
I have been waiting for an acknowledgement to inf...
"Job seekers will not be compelled to take part in back to work courses"
Partially successful.
Some information on the Work and Health Programme concerning the Long Term Unemployed (LTU) who move to Scotland and mandation (Chapter 5b):
"80. I...
Egress Switch - secure email service
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to J Roberts on .
Successful.
Dear J Roberts,
Please find the two attachments resent with this email.
Kind regards
Deepa
Deepa Shah
Freedom of Information / Data Protection Offic...
Organisational chart updates
Partially successful.
HR must hold a list of names and job titles.
This can be redacted.
And no Section 16 advice has been given as to how you might obtain the infor...
Organogram for March 2017
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to J Roberts on .
Partially successful.
3 April 2017
Dear J Roberts
Your information request (our case reference: FDN-274451)
I am writing in response to your Freedom of Inf...
Practice recommendations by the Commissioner
Successful.
Over 100,000 bodies subject to the FOIA but not one practice recommendation under section 48 of FOIA in the past 12 months. I thought there would be...
RHI - top 20 most recent payments to beneficiaries
Response by Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland) to J Roberts on .
Successful.
J Roberts,
Payments made to domestic beneficiaries do not relate to quarterly periods; payments are made to domestic beneficiaries on an annual basis....
It is noteworthy that the number of temporary staff who made decisions on complaints in the years 2014/15 and 2015/16 increased from 8 to 55 (almost al...
Performance bonuses in 2015/16
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by J Roberts. Annotated by Brenda Prentice on .
Successful.
JT,
You are exactly right, after 21 apologies for poor service, my original complaint of 5 years ago, or was it 6, has still not investigated.
Any...
'Ask Mick' sessions
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to J Roberts on .
Partially successful.
Dear J Roberts
Your internal review (FDN-270645)
I am writing in response to your email of 30 October 2016 in which you
express dissatisfa...
Missing?
Doubt if they ever had a policy.
Indicative of how this over managed organisation runs.
....Bet it had one for lower grades.
Officer 31 stands out - 41 complaints dealt with and not one 'upheld'. A fair number of the officers appear not to be doing very much.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to J Roberts on .
Partially successful.
Dear J Roberts
FDN-274047
I write in response to your information request of 1 November 2016 in
which you requested the following:
P...
PHSO senior staff working temporarily in unfilled permanent positions
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to J Roberts on .
Successful.
Dear J Roberts
Your information request: FDN 273244
I write in response to your information request of 13 October 2016 in
which you asked:...
Julie Mellor, her former business partner Rosemary Jackson and lucrative PHSO contracts
Partially successful.
Due to the following financial blunders, logically it should have been the Finance director:
Graham Payne
Director of Finance, Planning and Perfo...
Stephen Lotinga - former Executive Director of External Affairs and Strategy
Partially successful.
I wonder how the PHSO paid him?
Presumably guessed the days he worked and his expenses?
The information should be available from the PHSO 's ac...
Who is responsible for responding to internal review requests?
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by J Roberts. Annotated by Brenda Prentice on .
Successful.
Exactly JT and she then says they are within legal requirements....
Dame Julie Mellor, Deputy Ombudsman Mick Martin and the "sexual abuse cover-up".
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by J Roberts. Annotated by phsothefacts Pressure Group on .
Partially successful.
The recruitment company didn't even check the quality of his references - a basic surely. Yet they still took the money.
This person's 479 annotations
Number of schools visited, with undertakings or fined
Awaiting classification.
"You can review the fines we have issued for breaches of the DPA in the last two years on the ‘action we’ve taken’ pages of our website. For ease of re...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
'Is the intent to shut down those who win in court, or justifiably make an ICO service complaint?"
Here is a recent ICO decision (vexatious) related...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
Here is another Neil Wilby complaint. He was 'vexed' by Durham Constabulary, but he writes that the ICO has overturned the decision. Some may find in...
Compensation in personal injury claims
Awaiting classification.
From the 2016/17 Annual Report (page 12):
"801 payments to make up for financial loss or recognise the impact of what went wrong: £605,760 from NHS o...
Requests for a review 2016 - 2017
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by phsothefacts Pressure Group. Annotated by J Roberts on .
Successful.
"How can they be trusted?"
It is one hell of a spin they put on the stats!
19 in every 20 decision review requests* were rejected very early, tha...
Compensation in personal injury claims
Awaiting classification.
You may also be interested in this request concerning the amount of compensation paid in respect of 10 deaths:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request...
Compensation in personal injury claims
Awaiting classification.
You may be interested in the "Typology of Injustice":
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/255205/response/632201/attach/3/Information%20for%20rele...
Requests for a review 2016 - 2017
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by phsothefacts Pressure Group. Annotated by J Roberts on .
Successful.
PHSO factual:
"In 2016-17, we reviewed 81 decisions and upheld 15 of them. In 2015-16 we reviewed 218 decisions and upheld 14."
PHSO other:
"The...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
"Maybe it needs more expansive legal minds to widen the ICO’s common *anti- utilitarian narrow focus on protection of the individual at the expense of...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
Another "fundamentally flawed" ICO decision which relied on "a misleading and inappropriate analogy". This appeal concerns the disclosure of a docume...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
"There must be some reason why it seems to fly out the window at the ICO stage.
I’d love to know why."
One thing Neil Wilby mentioned (see above) i...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
Link to Consent Order:
http://informationrights.decisions.tribunals.gov.uk//DBFiles/Decision/i2075/Coppen,%20S%20%20EA2017-0136%20(05.10.17)%20Consen...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
"It is not a personal request, or description that the ICO seems to favour now of ‘frivolity’, as I am apparently not alone in wondering about the posi...
Three sets of PHSO committee minutes
Partially successful.
It would appear an error has been made, or else there has been a change in policy to restrict public access to this response:
"1. Please provide the...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
"But why is it only at at the expensive tribunal court stage that common sense seems to prevail that documents logically should exist?"
Which makes m...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
"I see from the case above that ICO made its usual judgement in favour of the organisation, even though, logically, if it’s doing business with another...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
correction: Judge Wilkely was quoted in a First-tier Tribunal decision, not an ICO Decision Notice.
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
"So as your name is not on the document, any later SAR search doesn’t find it."
It is easy to see how this practice makes a mockery of FOI.
FOIA...
Here is some information from Dr David Webster's latest report which some people might be interested in:
"Table 1 therefore shows the mean quarterly(...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
"But maybe there is some legal mechanism, that it must adhere to, that prevents this?"
I think there is.
Public bodies don't like to use the "A"...
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
I should also add that in Mr Wilby's case the two barristers he faced were instructed "to concede nothing".
Apologies for wrongful decisions.
Awaiting response.
"I simply can’t understand where there is a demonstratable injustice the ICO still supports the organisation which has failed to provide the data. Sure...
How many investigations of complaints referred by Bernard Jenkin MP have been upheld?
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by J Roberts on .
Successful.
Meant to say "about 20" instead of "only 20".
How many investigations of complaints referred by Bernard Jenkin MP have been upheld?
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by J Roberts on .
Successful.
In response to a request of mine it was disclosed that Bernard Jenkin made 45 referrals in the year 2016/17:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/m...
Mandatory work placements (community benefit) - work and health programme and the youth obligation scheme
Awaiting classification.
"Although claimants on the Work Programme may be offered work experience placements that are of benefit to the community, this is not the case for the...