M Boyce
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 103)
Yes, the words 'pot', 'kettle' and 'black' come to mind.
Unfair schizophrenia within the ICO
Awaiting response.
M Boyce
A simple apology from one wrongdoing now comes a great cost to taxpayer because of these vacuous regulators.
They are ALL cut from the same...
Agreed. But as with 'it's not what you know, but who you know', it's also a case of 'its not what you say, but who is listening and deciding'.
The receipt of external legal advice from the PHSO
Follow up sent to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce on .
Successful.
There is now no need to conduct an internal review because you have FINALLY provided the information I originally requested. Why you thought it was...
Can a PHSO manager or a peer review manager now change a final decision from not upheld to upheld?
Successful.
So a manager cannot change a decision, but they can 'request another assessment decision'. But what is an another assessment decision? Who undertakes t...
Judicial reviews of PHSO reviews of final reports
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Partially successful.
Dear M Boyce
RE: Your information request: R0000488
I write in response to your email of 27 January 2019 regardi...
Review and Feedback Team (RAFT)
Partially successful.
Here's another classic example of PHSO lies and deceit.
In the above RaFT guidance it states the following:
'Recommendation.
Following on from yo...
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 .
Partially successful.
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 .
Refused.
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...
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https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/sites/default/files/2019-07/Letter%20from%20Rob%20Behrens%20to%20Dr%20Sarah%20Wollaston%20MP%20FPPR%20-%2017%20July%
I n...
Unfair schizophrenia within the ICO
Awaiting response.
Victoria Soeder,
I completely agree.
It is extremely worrying that such a deficient organisation is tasked and publicly financed to deal with free...
Jason, the Registrar at the Tribunal has told the PHSO and the ICO that they must make final submissions to the Tribunal by 22/07/19 explaining why the...
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/unfair_schizophrenia_within_the#incoming-1397710
Let's see if the ICO can be bothered to explain why some of t...
Yes A.E. you have summed it up with the word arbitrary. We know that both the PHSO and the ICO are ideologically and, particularly at the top level, bi...
https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2019/2615331/fs50803813.pdf
And today we have the above truly extraordinary decision publ...
Names of senior staff
Partially successful.
D.Moore
I've just read the ICO DN. As usual they have found in favour of the PHSO. No surprise there then.
Good luck with your appeal.
I agree that wide discretion is not a license for the PHSO to do whatever they see fit. Unfortunately the PHSO do see it that way, and so to a large ex...
A.E., a petition sounds like a good idea, but I'm not sure whether it would work in practice. For any petition to have any leverage it needs to get a l...
All parties final submissions are due by 22 July 2019. I will then get to see what both the PHSO and the ICO have to say before the Tribunal then get t...
For any public authority to work fairly and effectively it needs to be subject to rigorous checks and balances. For the PHSO these checks and balances...
Thanks Jason. Yes it is a very positive step forward.
Everybody knows that the PHSO and the ICO cannot be trusted and the ICO is hugely biased in fav...
Average length of time to carry out a review
Partially successful.
I totally agree with what you say. Sadly, the chances of winning are very slim.
If it is any consolation, your case may well prove important in my c...
Today the Tribunal have informed me that the PHSO has now FINALLY sent it the withheld external legal advice. The PHSO were kicking and screaming as it...
Average length of time to carry out a review
Partially successful.
Sofia Tate
If you are wanting to try and judicially review your review decision (and presumably the 'final' decision) then you are running out of tim...
Average length of time to carry out a review
Partially successful.
They may not challenge/oppose a late application that is their fault, but they know that it is likely to be out of time with the court.
The other issu...
Average length of time to carry out a review
Partially successful.
Sofia Tate, did the PHSO ever inform you of the following?
'If you want to appeal the Ombudsman's decision then you have a period of three months in...
Average length of time to carry out a review
Partially successful.
As you say, handled with complete objectivity and no bias whatsoever!
Do let us know if you do decide to apply for judicial review.
Thanks J Roberts.
My ambition is to win the jackpot on the Euro Millions lottery. An ambition that is much more realistic than the ICO's ambition....
All information concerning functus officio
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by M Boyce on .
Long overdue.
Oh yes, the PHSO are certainly prevaricating. I wonder why?
The PHSO certainly appear, on the available evidence, to NEVER find in favour of disclos...
And then we have this hypocritical nonsense from the PHSO:
https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/documents/2615190/openness_by_-design_strategy_2019...
All information concerning functus officio
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by M Boyce on .
Long overdue.
?????? Hello, hello is there anybody there?
Section 14 or section 42? Take a stab in the dark.
Section 42 of the FOIA is concerned with legal prof...
Yes I totally agree.
I would expect it would be sometime this week, as time for final submissions is now short.
All any of us can do is hope that the Tribunal process wi...
I agree that the PHSO are certainly not wedded to the idea of transparency. In the case you have provided a link to, I do think, however, that withhold...