This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 130)
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Dear Mr Coombs
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Information disclosed prompted the Guardian to research and reveal "how grammar schools are expanding – by taking pupils who fail the 11-plus"
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Dear Mr Pike,
Thanks very much for publishing the report and providing a link to where it can be downloaded:
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Dear Mr Horstrup,
Thanks very much for providing the requested information.
best wishes
James Coombs
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Dear James Coombs
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Dear Mrs Emberson-Powney,
Thanks very much for your helpful reply.
best wishes
James Coombs
Dear James Coombs
Thank you for your recent enquiry which was received on 15 October.
A reply will be sent to you as soon as possible and this sh...
Dear Mr Coombs
Please find attached the response to your request for an internal review-
IR ref: 70168
We apologise for the delay in sending y...
Please provide a response to my request for an internal review or I will refer this to the Information Commissioner.
Yours faithfully,
James Coomb...
Cabinet Office's response is a PDF letter containing a (mistyped) URL to the location of Lord Geidt's published in May
https://www.gov.uk/government/p...
Dear Mr Coombs,
I am writing to inform you that the department has now completed its
internal appeal process following your complaint of 6 July 2022...
Lord Geidt's resignation letter was published the day after I made this request so I cancelled it.
I understand that researchers make use of the qua...
Dear James Coombs,
Please find attached our response to your request for an Internal Review
(reference IR2022/04070).
As this case is subject to a...
Dear Mr Coombs,
I refer to your request for an internal review which was received on 14
February 2022. You requested:
The DfE has disclosed a PDF...
Dear James Coombes,
Please find attached our response to your recent Freedom of Information
request (reference FOI2022/01059).
Yours sincerely,...
Dear James Coombs
"Thank you for your request for information, which was received on
10/10/2021 13:21 . You requested
“I’m interested i...
Dear Ms Meah,
Thanks very much for finding the time to respond. Have a great weekend.
Best wishes
James Coombs
Dear Mr Coombs,
Further to your Freedom of Information request dated 30/10 2021 we will be
happy to comply with your request. Please contact us with...
I only asked the council to review withholding contract values as details about the standardisation process are currently subject to proceedings in the...
Dear Mr Coombs
We write further to your recent correspondence in which you challenged the
Council’s decision to withhold information sought purs...
Dear Mr Coombs
Further to your enquiry in which you asked:
Please provide details of all correspondence between the council and its
11+ te...
Please disclose a copy of the council's internal review relating to the request for information submitted via the whatdotheyknow.com website which can...
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Information disclosed prompted the Guardian to research and reveal "how grammar schools are expanding – by taking pupils who fail the 11-plus"
https:/...
See also https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/windrush_historical_roots
Have just referred this to the ICO who are usually quick to tell public auth...
Copy of email to ICO 29/10/2022
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Dear Information Commissioners Office,
Please could I request the ICO investigates th...
Cabinet Office's response is a PDF letter containing a (mistyped) URL to the location of Lord Geidt's published in May
https://www.gov.uk/government/p...
Sixteen grammar schools were awarded £50m of public funding to provide additional places for grammar schools. In Jan 2019 I asked how much each had bee...
Lord Geidt's resignation letter was published the day after I made this request so I cancelled it.
I understand that researchers make use of the qua...
I totally overlooked that small word "not" in the reply, because it has not logical place to be there.
My understanding is that the full report was...
This request was submitted at 08:38 on 31 Jan 2022 after days of prevarication by Johnson and his government suggesting they did not have the report th...
TBGS were added as second respondent to Coombs v ICO EA/2020/0310 on 18 Jan 2021. Whilst the response given parts 1-3 (information not held) might not...
I only asked the council to review withholding contract values as details about the standardisation process are currently subject to proceedings in the...
In Amit Matalia v Warwickshire County Council (https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2017/991.html) the Court of Appeal's finding of *fact* were tha...
Public authority have refused to even disclose what personal data passes between them and their data processor (GLA). Have asked the ICO to consider wh...
I see no valid reason for withholding this information . Frank and free discussions are not inhibited when personal information is redacted!
In almos...
According to the law
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/19
19 Publication schemes.
(1)It shall be the duty of every public author...
A response was due by 20 Nov ( WDTK miscalculated this as 13 Nov because it can't calculate "school days" to account for half term.) The contact email...
Ofqual submitted this statement to Commons Education Select: committeehttps://committees.parliament.uk/publications/2292/documents/22733/default/
Edu...
Interesting observation!
I note from a previous High Court ruling https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/UKIP-v-Braine-2019-EWHC-3527-QB...
Dear B Darcy,
I understand that the “independent” statistician who carried out the report into the test error was Dougal Hutchison, Chief Statistici...
Kent County Council provide 11+ testing for all of the grammar schools in Kent and yet the four in Dover and Folkestone operate an additional test, cos...
Kent County Council provide 11+ testing for all of the grammar schools in Kent and yet the four in Dover and Folkestone operate an additional test, cos...
Kent County Council provide 11+ testing for all of the grammar schools in Kent and yet the four in Dover and Folkestone operate an additional test, cos...
Kent County Council provide 11+ testing for all of the grammar schools in Kent and yet the four in Dover and Folkestone operate an additional test, cos...
The ICO recently upheld the Cabinet Office's use of s.23 to refuse to provide a me a copy of the Russia Report. Their decision notice FS50902636 (not...
It has taken 8 months and two interventions from the Information Commissioner for this information to be disclosed. WBC’s senior solicitor says my requ...
That's an interesting reply.
"329 children sat the Dover Test that had not been assessed suitable for a Kent grammar after sitting the Kent Test. Of...
