M Boyce
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 112)
Thanks for this information J Roberts.
The ICO said that the new refusal notice contained personal information and gave me the option of receiving th...
Number of people sanctioned for missing just one JSA appointment.
Awaiting internal review.
Recent UT decision overturns sanction relating to a failure to participate in a UC telephone interview:
KG-v-SSWP (UC) [2020] UKUT 307(AAC)
The im...
Yes totally agree.
I see that the FTT website is down again. It has crashed more times this year than a boy racer covered by diplomatic immunity.
Review and Feedback Team (RAFT) guidance 2020
Follow up sent to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce on .
Awaiting classification.
We know who signed-off the revised review policy, but who actually revised it?
We have waited nearly two years for the revised review policy and a...
Open Democracy has just published this report:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20415987/art-of-darkness-opendemocracy.pdf
"Public bodies...
Time taken to investigate cases
Successful.
Link broken in comment dated 17 August 2017. Try this:
https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/public_bodies_bill/supporting_documents...
Number of ICO caseworkers working reduced hours due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Partially successful.
The information provided doesn't really address the question or the issue. It is impossible to disaggregate the information and therefore we do not lea...
Judicial reviews of PHSO reviews of final reports
Partially successful.
Dr Bruce Newsome writes:
'According to heart-breaking testimonials, most complainants are treated by PHSO staff as time-wasters, liars, idiots, fanta...
https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/sites/default/files/The%20Ombudsman%E2%80%99s%20Annual%20Report%20and%20Accounts%202019-2020_
The Annual Report has reap...
Draft Public Service Ombudsman Bill now not fit for purpose.
Partially successful.
Spot on. Fine principles are one thing, the PHSO in practice is something else.
Trustpilot:
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.ombudsman.org.u...
To review evidence (the substance of an investigation), or not to review evidence, that is the question.
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Refused.
Thank you for contacting the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s
(PHSO) Freedom of Information and Data Protection Team. This is to confirm...
Closing a claim for UC and receiving a final payment.
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 11th
November.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centr...
Making a fresh/new claim for 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
November.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centra...
The legal no man's land of the sham PHSO review process.
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce. Annotated by phsothefacts Pressure Group on .
Refused.
Very interesting.
Unfair schizophrenia within the ICO
Information not held.
The ICO don't want to supply the information because if they did it would show that when they predicate disclosure of information under section 42 of t...
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 .
Successful.
Dear M Boyce,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 6th
August.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Central...
Thanks for this J Roberts.
To a large extent this particular request has now become somewhat academic. The ICO were eventually forced to admit that t...
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...
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...
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...
This person's 575 annotations
Thanks for this information J Roberts.
The ICO said that the new refusal notice contained personal information and gave me the option of receiving th...
The ICO have now decided to change their exemption on this request to section 14 FOIA (vexatious). Surprise surprise.
They know they hold the informat...
Review and feedback guidance
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by William Wetherell. Annotated by M Boyce on .
Delayed.
So the PHSO have not responded by the legal due date - AGAIN.
In my similar request to this one the PHSO advised me that they had been using their re...
J Roberts, they will almost certainly refuse your request about tribunals in case you use the information at a tribunal!
An appellant must go to any...
Interesting posts.
These do raise important questions:
How does this affect the WDTK website? Do not requestors ask for documents to be made public...
Yes totally agree.
I see that the FTT website is down again. It has crashed more times this year than a boy racer covered by diplomatic immunity.
No Jason I'd not heard of it.
Judicial review is a valuable constitutional check and balance; but let's be honest: it is and only ever was aimed at...
The above case contrasts with mine:
The CPS compellability of the Queen case is 'of interest to the public'; mine is 'in the public interest.'
In t...
Thanks for these links G.E Garner. I will look at them closely over the weekend. It looks quite concerning stuff.
Jason, I certainly agree that the ICO are also not fit for purpose: they merely rubber-stamp what an authority says and ignore the general public.
I...
... in a mess and needs sorting out; yet my enquiries about this mess he then categorises as vexatious.
The PHSO time and time again behaves like an...
http://informationrights.decisions.tribunals.gov.uk/DBFiles/Decision/i2698/014%20151020%20Decision.pdf
And now we have the above decision just publis...
The ICO are up to their usual tricks of peddling falsehoods as truths. In the latest case on section 42 FOIA, dated 11 November 2020 the ICO again stat...
PACAC question re mediation in 2019/20
Partially successful.
Sadly, I don't trust anything the PHSO says or does, and I know I am not alone. I have nothing against the idea of mediation, just not when the PHSO ar...
PACAC question re mediation in 2019/20
Partially successful.
I find it very hard to believe that anyone would feel 'rejuvenated' by encountering the PHSO; in fact quite the contrary: most people feel like they've...
This UTT Decision could well have very dire consequences for ordinary litigants in person. It is likely to lead to all authorities prohibiting any liti...
Names of senior staff
Partially successful.
Thanks for the link to the recent J Roberts FOI.
It raises some very important and fundamental questions about 'discussion' of FTT and UTT appeals. M...
Thanks for this info D. Moore.
D. Moore, where did you obtain the above ICO DN, dated November 09 2020 concerning the PHSO? I ask because it has not been published on the ICO website...
Names of senior staff
Partially successful.
Sorry to hear about your appeal being dismissed D. Moore.
Sadly the FTT is always going to respect absolute exemptions, however valid and persuasive...
No further updates yet Jason, but I believe that the decision is currently being written by the Tribunal judge.
My main concerns with the case are mo...
No Jason. I wanted to attend a remote hearing, which the Tribunal at first said was absolutely necessary, but both the PHSO and the ICO refused to atte...
The Tribunal sat this week to hear my case EA/2019/0032 - legal advice about the PHSO review process. The case will be unlikely to be published on the...
Number of people sanctioned for missing just one JSA appointment.
Awaiting internal review.
Thanks J Roberts.
Will update when I hear back from the UTT.
Number of people sanctioned for missing just one JSA appointment.
Awaiting internal review.
Thanks for this interesting link J Roberts.
Quite frankly I trust most judges as far as a baby could throw them. I will be appealing my case SC246/19...