M Boyce
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 98)
It it now plain that it is a matter of the PHSO's discretion whether or not to allow a further review to be carried out (so, again, the PHSO have been...
Review and Feedback Team (RAFT)
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear M Boyce,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)
Our reference – R0000159
I have reconsidered your request for information and ou...
Low paid temporary workers are being denied their full personal tax allowance if they claim Universal Credit.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to M Boyce on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear M Boyce,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 1st
January.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Central...
Thanks J Roberts.
Section 14 is used by the establishment to silence those who threaten to reveal its wrongdoings.
ALR applicable throughout the lifetime of a complaint or just at the beginning of the complaint?
Refused.
Yes the PHSO legal team has got it wrong. ALR logically must apply throughout the lifetime of a complaint, and not just at the very beginning.
The PH...
Yes A.E. I am making a submission to PACAC. My submission will be about the sham review process. Sadly I suspect that PACAC will not discuss this matte...
Fresh investigation or re-opened investigation?
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Partially successful.
Dear M Boyce,
Internal Review of Freedom of Information Request
I write in response to your email of 2 November in which you requested an...
FOS final decisions and the direct contradiction between case law and the Ombudsmen FAQ's
Response by Financial Ombudsman Service Limited to M Boyce on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear M Boyce
Thank you for your email and I'm sorry for delay in replying to your request for an internal review. A copy of our response is now attach...
Revised guidance note and amendment of decision letters.
Partially successful.
Agreed J Roberts.
The 'clarification ' by the PHSO as usual just makes things even more unclear. How can something that is provisional be final? How...
The PHSO wasting public money.
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Refused.
Dear M Boyce
RE: Your information request: R0000093
I write in response to your email of 2 July 2018 regarding your request
for informatio...
The PHSO sham review process.
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Partially successful.
Dear M Boyce
RE: Your information request: R0000092
I write in response to your email of 2 July 2018 in regards to your
request for inform...
Universal Credit makes taking a holiday financially impossible.
Information not held.
Someone working 30 hours a week normally would be earning over £338 a month which would mean they would be placed in INDIVIDUAL EARNS OVER ART - LIGHT...
Number of cases that the Legal Aid Agency has granted legal aid to complainants against the PHSO
Response by Legal Aid Agency to M Boyce on .
Refused.
Dear M Boyce,
Please find attached our response to your recent Freedom of Information
request.
Yours sincerely,
Information Governan...
Please find attached a response to your recent FOI request
Many thanks
Enquiries & Information
[1]Description: Description: Descr...
Alternative legal remedy
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Refused.
Thank you for your e-mail to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. This return e-mail shows that we have received your correspondence.
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Time taken to complete reviews of decisions.
Successful.
The information you provided to PACAC was still essentially misleading. You say you want to manage public expectation by explaining that the wait is li...
The PHSO's judicial review game of risk.
Successful.
For anyone interested in what the court's role is in judicial review, here is Justice Warby's take on it:
'Where a court carries out judicial review...
Timing out of judicial review.
Partially successful.
That one person must therefore have been me.
So other complainants were not forewarned that the Court would almost certainly refuse them permission to...
Universal Credit is designed so that it really does pay to break the law
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to M Boyce on .
Refused.
Dear M Boyce,
Sorry for the delay with your reply.
Please see the attached reply to your Internal Review request 579
Yours sincerely
DWP Strategy...
Number of requests for a Customer Care Team review of Final Decisions since December 2014.
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Partially successful.
Dear M Boyce,
Re: Your Information Request - FDN-275054
Thank you for your email of 7 February 2018. We are writing in response to
your re...
Dear Harjit Garcha
Thank you for your reply.
I am now satisfied with your response. It is a great pity it takes the intervention of the ICO to forc...
PHSOthefacts
Yes, good points.
Significantly, the PHSO has asked the Court for it to stay proceedings without first requesting consent to such a requ...
Qualifications of your legal assistant(s).
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Partially successful.
Thank you for your e-mail to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. This return e-mail shows that we have received your correspondence.
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Failure to Attend.
Awaiting internal review.
the links in DWP responses lead to page not found
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/social%20security/docs/a11-6101.pdf
http://www.legislation.go...
Customer Care Appeals
Partially successful.
Even if the PHSO is exempt from the EU ADR Directive, it does not alter the fact that they are supposed to behave fairly and transparently. Timing comp...
This person's 316 annotations
The FTT is unfortunately even more establishment than the ICO. Judges almost always seek to protect the establishment and cover-up their wrongdoing. Th...
Just when you think the ICO cannot get any more stupid you soon realise that they can. In my DN it states in paragraph 17:
'The Commissioner agrees w...
Yes Jason you make some good points and the media will be informed about what is going on here.
Today I received my Decision Notice from the ICO and...
Yes the advice does seem contradictory, as usual.
The FOI response states:
'The current policy and procedure used by RaFT , formerly CCT, are publi...
They can decide not to publish some or all of a submission if it contains information that is not already in the public domain, but all the information...
Has anyone else had their submission to PACAC's latest scrutiny committee doctored by the Committee?
Surprisingly PACAC have published my submission (...
Yes J Roberts, you make a good point that illustrates just how capricious and unfair judges can be. There isn't a single judge in this country that I w...
I agree Jason. Access to JR is in reality only access to notional justice: the chances of a complainant succeeding in their JR is vanishingly small bec...
As I've stated earlier in this thread, the review process exists merely to derail a complainants access to possible justice. It is now almost certainly...
Below is what John Roper, Head of RAFT, stated in a letter to me dated 31 December 2018:
'I note you have asked for a fresh investigation of the comp...
Yes PACAC will just look the other way or just fob it off. But it was still worth making a submission because it adds to the growing evidence that PACA...
Yes and then no.
Notice how PACAC have only published two pieces of submitted evidence to their 'scrutiny' meeting. Where are all the rest of the sub...
In terms of the review process, Mr Roper replied to me by email (he won't speak to me on the phone anymore) about two weeks ago and stated the followin...
Yes I am familiar with the Patients Association view. I wonder whether they have made a submission to PACAC this year?
As for Mr Roper, he and I have...
Where did you find out about the change in the review policy Jason?
I notice that the 'witnesses' (is someone getting married?) at the PACAC shindig...
Mr Titcombe must look to his own conscience on why he has now become a champion for the PHSO.
The financial crash of 2008 was an absolute godsend to t...
Yes the video makes interesting viewing. What is also interesting is that James Titcombe used to be one of PHSO's most vociferous critics (and rightly...
Yes Jason, what you say is absolutely right. The PHSO needs to be exposed for its very serious failings. If they are not truly accountable for their ac...
Thanks J Roberts.
Section 14 is used by the establishment to silence those who threaten to reveal its wrongdoings.
Thanks for this J Roberts.
The ICO have now supplied me with the PHSO's 'detailed reasons' for withholding the requested information. They have compl...
ALR applicable throughout the lifetime of a complaint or just at the beginning of the complaint?
Refused.
Yes the PHSO legal team has got it wrong. ALR logically must apply throughout the lifetime of a complaint, and not just at the very beginning.
The PH...
When it comes to making a submission to PACAC it also states:
'PACAC will not normally investigate individual cases of complaint or allegations of ma...
Thanks for your email A.E.
I don't think PACAC will publish my submission or ask any questions to the PHSO about it because they don't want to addres...
Below is a copy of my brief submission to PACAC's 2018/19 Scrutiny Meeting, which I sent today.
SUBMISSION TO PACAC – THE SHAM PHSO REVIEW PROCESS....
Identify the Correct Authority
Awaiting classification.
It would be almost impossible to think of an organisation more supine than PACAC.