M Boyce
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 106)
Making a fresh/new claim for 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
November.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centra...
Closing a claim for UC and receiving a final payment.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to M Boyce on .
Delayed.
This is an automated confirmation that your request for information has
been accepted by the DWP FoI mailbox.
By the next working day your request...
Thanks very much Jason, and for sending me the OneDrive information.
The WDTK Team have elaborated further and said that they decided to remove the a...
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...
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...
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...
This person's 385 annotations
Thanks very much Jason, and for sending me the OneDrive information.
The WDTK Team have elaborated further and said that they decided to remove the a...
Yes, the WDTK Support Team have told me that they have disabled the annotations function from this request. It would have been nice to have been inform...
What has now happened to the post from whatyoudontknow, or whatever it or who it was? I didn't open it because I thought it looked dodgy.
I've sent a message to the WDTK team to ask them to look into or explain what is going on.
Yes Jason this is very strange and worrying. I will get in touch with WDTK to try and find out what has happened.
Expert Advisory Panel Members
Information not held.
I hope his involvement with the PHSO is for the good as well. The problem is when someone works with (not necessarily for) an unfair organisation they...
Expert Advisory Panel Members
Information not held.
Yes, but has he looked at what others have been saying on this site?
Expert Advisory Panel Members
Information not held.
I can't understand for the life of me why James Titcombe wants to work with the PHSO. He like many people had a terrible experience with his complaint...
No J Roberts the PHSO have not considered section 12. My submissions so far have not raised your particularly perceptive point. If I get chance to make...
All information concerning functus officio
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by M Boyce on .
Refused.
'...There is no statutory requirement...to carry out an internal review..'
No there isn't, and like the PHSO if they did, such an action could be ult...
https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2019/2615903/fs50835850-1.pdf
I will also be appealing the above to the First-tier Tribun...
Jason, the PHSO have declined to make any final submissions to the Tribunal.
The ICO now have a couple of weeks to make their final submission.
I t...
Thanks for this J Roberts. The way things are going it could be very useful. The PHSO, the ICO and the Tribunal are doing their best to keep kicking my...
Totally agree A.E.
Too many public authorities are abusing the FOIA by wrongly and unfairly using sections like 14 and 42 to shut down public scrutin...
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...
Jason, the ICO are not arguing that only in very exceptional cases WILL the public interest outweigh the exemption. They are arguing that only in very...
Money paid by PHSO for legal services
Partially successful.
Thanks for the update D.Moore. Will follow with interest.
Thanks J Roberts. Ultimately it is down to a court or a tribunal to decide whether the information supplied is within the scope of the request and then...
EUREKA!
I don't know why I've not realised what has been staring me in the face for many months: it is not just the PHSO that is breaking the law, it...
Thanks for your last post J Roberts, it is very interesting. I may well refer to it in my next submission to the Tribunal - now extended by the Tribuna...
I will shortly be writing to the Tribunal Registrar to ask that GRC Rule 7(3)(e) be invoked, whereby the Tribunal makes a request to the Upper Tribunal...
Thanks for the links. I'll have a read through them.
Yes it had occurred to me that the ICO are saying that the legal advice is irrelevant - 'not wit...
I've not read it, but it could be worth a look.
In my case, even if the Tribunal find that the public interest favours disclosure, then what would ac...
Thanks J Roberts.
I take your point. I will not at this stage, however, be asking for any of the content of the 'withheld information' - external le...
Ministry of Justice (MoJ) criticised over forging documents
Awaiting classification.
If I were you I would ask them for a review now. Don't wait for them to reply to your query here as it eats into the time you have for asking for a rev...