This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 28)
Dear Katie M or Catherine Byrne
Please see attached our response to your information request.
We thank you for your patience and understand...
I see that LCC were able to respond to this FOI in 24 hours....yet I have been waiting months for responses to my FOIs
So your idea of showing my idiocy is to link everyone to another example of your multiple personalities?
You become odder and odder by the post
A Decision Notice ordering you to provide a proper response to this request within 35 calendar days was issued by the Information Commissioner on 23 Ma...
Dear Mr Symm,
Thank you for this prompt response,
Cordially,
Catherine Byrne
The agreement that Julian obtained detailed two services. The first was a financial appraisal of 10 RGF/GPF investments, and the second was the financi...
Please find attached response
Regards,
Kevin Symm I Senior Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverp...
Dear Ms Byrne
Our ref: 2014/114
We are pleased to now be able to provide you with a response to your internal review request.
Please see our respons...
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Regards,
Kevin Symm I Senior Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverp...
Dear Ms Byrne
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 the only way in which a Local Authority is permitted to withhold information is b...
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Regards,
Kevin Symm I Senior Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverp...
For information, here is the full text of the response:
Re: Freedom of Information Act request
Thank you for your email you sent to us on 16th Janua...
Thank you for your email.
We aim to provide you with a response to your request as soon as possible.
Please note:
If this is a request for informatio...
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Regards,
Kevin Symm I Senior Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverpoo...
has anyone ever questioned if McElhinney has reduced his wage that he receives from Liverpool by 50%
also this letter seems to be signed after the fa...
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Regards,
Kevin Symm I Senior Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverpoo...
There really is a compelling public interest argument in disclosing this information. While the response no longer relies on section 12(1) (the idiotic...
At the prompting of the ICO, LCC made the further response to this request reproduced below (although they posted it in response to another request - h...
The response provided here is actually the Council's response to my question about the financial information that LCC receives from LDL - i.e. the mana...
Dear Mr Symm,
While I of course appreciate the information you provided in your email of 7 August, I would point out that this is exactly the kind of...
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Regards,
Kevin Symm I Senior Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverpo...
The response to this question was as follows.
"Freedom of Information Request 193512
Thank you for your recent request received 2 April 2012. Your...
Yes, I entirely agree (about BT and drumming up business etc.). This is precisely what the JV was intended to do, and LDL is clearly good at what it do...
Dear Ms Byrne
After speaking to our ICT department I can confirm that the City
Council's email policy is as follows: it is the responsibility of
indiv...
Dear Ms Byrne
The figures provided are for basic salaries.
Regards,
Kevin Symm
Senior Information Officer
Legal Services
Liverpool City Council
Muni...
This person's 202 annotations
Please don't let this one go - the argument against releasing the information is pretty weak, and the arguments in its favour are compelling. Especia...
Over and above Sean's public interest argument (which I agree with), the exemption used by LCC is very specific, and does not seem to apply here at all...
I have just added the annotation below to an identical request.
"If it helps, the 2011/12 Business Plan for OCL (the Lancashire version of LDL) names...
Hi,
If it helps, the 2011/12 Business Plan for OCL (the Lancashire version of LDL) names Colette Kavanagh as a member of the senior management team...
Hi Josie,
I think the issue here is not so much the identity of the person at Eversheds (or of the barrister Eversheds consulted) who provided the adv...
The first point of the answer is silly hair-splitting. Hellard , in her official capacity as Director of Finance, obtained "comments and feedback" on t...
Good questions.
The response, though, was a wonderful example of how Liverpool City Council does not comply withthe Information Commissioner's guida...
Another good question.
From their response:
"Liverpool City Council would advise that the application of the Indemnity has been closely monitored and...
Hi Audrey,
They refused this on the basis that you're asking about actions by Lancashire Police. Fair enough, it's not for information they hold.
But...
Great questions, and utterly shocking responses - the first one was an outright lie, and the review just repeated the same rubbish.
The Council appe...
Hi Josie,
A great request.
On the public interest point: the Council repeatedly misinterpret what "in the public interest" is, and how it should be...
So the latest technique is to pretend you didn't get a request for over 2 weeks? Really? That'll go down well with the ICO.
This is a very odd response.
From the college's own website (News section, 2011):
"Liverpool Futures is a partnership between Liverpool City Council...
George, we finally agree on something (the politics of the requester).
It's a seriously silly question. They can't actually provide an answer becaus...
George, please look at the ICO guidance. You seem to have comprehensively misunderstood the Freedom of Information Act. Over and over again, in its gu...
Hi Audrey,
I would definitely appeal to the Information Commissioner about the application of the Section 42 exemption (LPP) to your request for the d...
I can't be bothered rebutting this idiocy. Again.
See https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/due_diligence_prior_to_ldl_takeo#comment-65219
Thanks for the support Jenny. You're right, it's a disgraceful attitude, and speaks volumes about the attitudes of Council officers - both to members o...
Hi Jenny,
Yes, absolutely, thanks. Then maybe we could ask Francis Irving, who I think works on the site, to put a link to the documents, as he did w...
Wow. I wasn't going to comment on this, as Mr. Murray is clearly a troll, but having seen the response, I have to.
It's quite a document (I'd reproduc...
Great result. Mentioned in this morning's Liverpool Confidential. Not a peep out of the Echo, as per usual, these days.
Mr. Brown describes himself as "Head of the Mayor's Office at Liverpool City Council" on linkedin. His background is in PR.
Odd.
Joe is an executiv...
Yes, Josie, you're probably right about what they're doing, but it will be futile. They themselves provided a full description of what the informatio...
Dear Mr. Symm,
Thank you for the somewhat belated reply.
I should have received this information within 5 weeks of the decision notice, which as yo...
Hi Stephen,
This should not have been handled as environmental information. It might if it was about what Peel or any of its subsidiaries (including t...