Neil Wilby
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2012
Justice campaigner. Investigative journalist.
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 241)
Operation Exbourne
Request sent to Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council by Neil Wilby on .
Awaiting response
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information about Operation Exbourne, initiated with Greater Manchester Police in Ma...
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information regarding Operation Exbourne, launched in May 2006 to investigate child...
Action taken over injunction breaches
Response by Lancashire Constabulary to Neil Wilby on .
Awaiting internal review
If you are emailing a valid Freedom of Information request please treat
this as a formal acknowledgement.
Your request will now be considered in ac...
£250,000 per annum police Task Force set up to contain a single individual
Response by Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner to Neil Wilby on .
Awaiting internal review
Thank you for contacting the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner
for Lancashire, Clive Grunshaw.
A member of our team will review your corre...
Copy of FOIA request and response
Response by Lancashire Constabulary to Neil Wilby on .
Partially successful
If you are emailing a valid Freedom of Information request please treat
this as a formal acknowledgement.
Your request will now be considered in ac...
Operation Malaya
Response by Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner to Neil Wilby on .
Awaiting internal review
Dear Mr Wilby,
Please see the attached correspondence for your attention.
Kind regards,
Jane Pearson
Governance, Compliance & Reviews Manager
Office...
PEEL 2023 - 2025 Lancashire Constabulary
Follow up sent to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services by Neil Wilby on .
Awaiting response
Dear HMICFRS FOI,
Thank you for your communication dated 25th February, 2025.
May I respectfully draw your attention to Sections 10 (1) to (3) of t...
Police contact with Axel Rudakubana
Response by Independent Office for Police Conduct to Neil Wilby on .
Successful
Dear Mr Wilby
Thank you for email in which you request information about Lancashire Constabulary referrals to IOPC about interactions between police o...
Numbers of senior police officers currently suspended
Response by National Police Chiefs' Council to Neil Wilby on .
Refused
Good afternoon
Please find attached NPCC response to your Freedom of Information request.
With kindest regards.
Sherry
NPCC Freedom of Informat...
Dear Mr Wilby
Please find a response to your recent enquiry of the Ministry of Justice
David Carmichael
On behalf of statsfoi
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Information on media degree students
Response by University of Huddersfield to Neil Wilby on .
Successful
Good afternoon,
We refer to our previous correspondence in April 2024; reference Freedom
of information request 3600.
Please find below the in...
Appointment of Borough Solicitor
Response by Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council to Neil Wilby on .
Successful
Dear Mr Wilby,
Please find below the information on the back of your FOI request about
the Interim Borough Solicitor appointment process.
Before a...
Record keeping - data subject access requests
Response by Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council to Neil Wilby on .
Successful
Mr Wilby,
Please find attached response to your request for information, which has
been considered in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act...
Record keeping when finalising data subject access requests
Response by Information Commissioner's Office to Neil Wilby on .
Partially successful
Thank you for contacting the Information Commissioner’s Office. We confirm
that we have received your correspondence.
If you have made a request for...
Oldham Council Group Leaders meeting 27th February, 2024
Response by Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council to Neil Wilby on .
Partially successful
Good afternoon Mr Wilby,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
Please find attached calendar invite and agenda for the Group Leaders...
Paid officers living in or out of the Borough
Response by Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council to Neil Wilby on .
Successful
Dear Mr Wilby
Please find attached an internal review response for FOI 19841
Kind regards
Legal Services
Oldham Council
Level 4...
Complaint about misrepresentation of holding ACPO portfolio
Response by Independent Office for Police Conduct to Neil Wilby on .
Successful
This is an automated email please do not respond to it.
Thank you for your email.
If you have made a request for information to the IOPC, your...
NPCC Leads for Crime Statistics
Follow up sent to National Police Chiefs' Council by Neil Wilby on .
Successful
Dear National Police Chiefs' Council,
Thank you for providing the requested information.
The file can now be closed
Yours faithfully,
Neil Wi...
Information on Arts, Media and Design students
Follow up sent to Calderdale College by Neil Wilby on .
Successful
HiJonathan,
Thanks for resolving so quickly.
The internal review request now falls away and your file on this request may be closed
Best regards,...
Information on media degree students
Response by Leeds Trinity University to Neil Wilby on .
Successful
Dear Neil
Please find attached our response to your request.
Regards
Freedom of Information Officer
Leeds Trinity University, Horsforth, Leeds,...
Information on media, digital and creative arts students
Follow up sent to Wakefield College by Neil Wilby on .
Successful
Dear Sam,
Thank you for the prompt and helpful response.
I am, of course, grateful and confirm that your file can now be closed
Best regards,
N...
The council is not concealing information - they're refusing to deal with your request because they say it's vexatious. It's obvious that at least some...
Information on media degree students
Follow up sent to Leeds Beckett University by Neil Wilby on .
Successful
Dear Alex,
Thank you for the prompt and helpful response.
There is no issue taken at all with the careful approach you have taken - and the conse...
Information on media degree students
Follow up sent to University of Leeds by Neil Wilby on .
Successful
Dear Freedom of Information,
Thank you for the prompt and helpful response.
I'm grateful and, in particular, appreciate the seamless consolidation...
Information on media degree students
Response by University of Bradford to Neil Wilby on .
Successful
Dear Neil,
Thank you, it's always good to receive feedback about our FoI responses, and I have passed your appreciation on to the technical colleague...
This person's 73 annotations
Record keeping when finalising data subject access requests
Partially successful
Yes, thank you, Tim Turner. The word 'requiring' is a poor choice. Having dug a little deeper, some of the ICO material that answers part of the reques...
Objectively viewed, the reliance on the s14 exemption would appear to be perverse, irrational and not one reasonably open for GMP to take. Moreover, th...
Oldham Council Meeting (shambles)
Successful
Susan Lund may find the content of this article of some assistance as the FOI request progresses and Oldham Council eventually respond: https://neilwi...
Gully cleaning maintenance and schedule
Information not held
An important omission from the Council's response is the definition of 'cyclical'. Are gullies inspected once a month, every six months, once a year, e...
When this application to Oldham Council was made on 27.10.23, I wasn't aware of another FOIA request made in September, 2023 and still not finalised. I...
I wasn't aware of this request when I made this recent application to OMBC, but it, is of course, highly relevant: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/requ...
Compensation, disciplinary action and employee training consequential to publication of CSE assurance review
Partially successful
An extraordinary about-turn by Oldham Council after a clumsy attempt at obfuscation.
Objectively viewed, the answer that no officer had faced discip...
A usually reliable journalistic source has come forward with the following information, which, having the necessary ring of truth, may assist the appli...
Appointment of SOPHIE HALLWORTH, partner of Cllr SEAN FIELDING (Leader of Oldham Council) into GMCA
Successful
The applications assertion that he was not required to provide his full name is misconceived. The ICO Guidance makes it clear that a full name must be...
Leeds High Court Dr Abdul Rashid v West Yorkshire Police
Partially successful
The refusal to disclose the High Court judgment is misconceived.
It was published on BAILII at the same time as it was released to the parties in the...
Julia Mulligan’s behavioural support costs
Awaiting internal review
Another epic FOIA fail by the persistent and mendacious law-breakers at NYPFCC.
Thankfully, the public of North Yorkshire has only 66 more days befo...
Operation Policing System’ (iOPS)
Awaiting internal review
Another Greater Manchester Police FOIA request that has lain fallow for months.
Law enforcement agency that routinely breaks the law is not a good l...
Investigation carried out on behalf of Metropolitan Police Authority
Partially successful
The Information Commissioner has issued an adverse Decision Notice against Humberside Police concerning the first of the two requests made on this WDTK...
Police Federation 'cyber attacks'
Successful
For the benefit of What Do They Know readers and users, a Section 77 complaint has now been made to the ICO.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/200...
CID Officers and Investigators
Partially successful
It has been revealed in civil court proceedings at Bradford County Court (Rashid -v- West Yorkshire Police) that ex-Detective Constable Mark Lunn was t...
Transforming PSD and Peer Review at Greater Manchester Police
Partially successful
If the Information Commissioner proceeds with a Section 77 prosecution, then it would also be open to me to pursue a private prosecution against the Ge...
Transforming PSD and Peer Review at Greater Manchester Police
Partially successful
For the benefit of fellow What Do They Know readers and users, the Information Commission wrote to me on 5th March, 2019 requesting details of the evid...
Operation Hyson
Refused
Long-running, and grotesque, cover-up over Operation Hyson continues. One of the police officer claimants is the new chief constable. Resort to section...
Steve Bradbury
Refused
The video clips, available at this link (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZhR7WrOXoaQohsOAP_b-lg) have received over 1.5 million views. The site has o...
Steve Bradbury
Refused
For the benefit of What Do They Know users and readers, this is a timeline setting out the five explanations provided by the IPCC (now IOPC) for delayi...
Transforming PSD project
Successful
GMP drinking in last chance saloon. Skirting dangerously close to Section 77 referral to Information Commissioner's Office.
Image Based Sexual Abuse Consultation/Survey
Request to North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner by Nigel Ward. Annotated by Neil Wilby on .
Partially successful
Mr Ward's request has been referenced in this article published earlier today:
https://neilwilby.com/2019/02/09/drowning-in-deceit/
PCC Julia Mulligan - bullying report
Request to North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner by Edward Williams. Annotated by Neil Wilby on .
Long overdue
Public authorities do not see annotations left on request threads. Unless they actively look for them.
For the PCC's office to consider the points I...
PCC Julia Mulligan - bullying report
Request to North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner by Edward Williams. Annotated by Neil Wilby on .
Long overdue
Not for the first time, in my own experience, the Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire has deliberately 'run down the clock' and th...
Civil claims made by, and against, NYPCC and Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police
Request to North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner by Neil Wilby. Annotated by Neil Wilby on .
Successful
If available, I would make every attempt to attend the trial. Early notification of the claim reference and listed date would assist. Thanks