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nigel hobro

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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 48)

Distribution of Covid grants
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to nigel hobro on 8 March 2022.

Successful.

Dear Mr Hobro   Thank you for your recent enquiry in which you asked:   ‘Following some alarm re profligacy of the hand outs of grants I ask wh...
Intensive start up scheme aka BSU2
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to nigel hobro on 4 May 2018.

Refused.

Dear Mr Hobro,   Thank you for your email dated 24^th March 2018 in which you asked for an Internal review of the handling of your FOI enquiry ref...
Minutes of Steering Group for the Kingsway Business park
Response by Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council to nigel hobro on 9 February 2018.

Awaiting classification.

Dear Nigel, please find the attached reply to your request for Minutes of Steering Group for the Kingsway Business park.   We feel that we have fu...
LEClight ltd formerly Sign Lights ltd- BIG fund
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by James Griffiths on 15 July 2017.

Successful.

G'day Nigel Are they always this in depth or is it a request to be considered for the job of Head of the Ill Legal Department?
BIG fund-Aspire creative enterprises
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to nigel hobro on 29 June 2017.

Successful.

Dear Mr Hobro,   I refer to your email of 24 April, in which you made the following request for information:-   Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borou...
BIG Fund Merseycare transport and Aspire creative enterprises
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro on 20 June 2017.

Long overdue.

Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT, This is extracted from Merseycare's website @Merseycare is a local community transport charity helping local people with specia...
Police crime commissioner election expenses from November 2012
Follow up sent to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro on 17 March 2017.

Successful.

Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT, Many of us already had downloaded the 70 pages The real point of this download was to prove an assertion made in an employme...
Corrin kenny ltd BIG Fund award
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to nigel hobro on 7 March 2017.

Partially successful.

Dear Mr Hobro,   I refer to your email of 10 January, which contained the following request for information:-   ‘Dear Wirral Metropolitan Boro...
Kingsway Business Park GONW5408EUR
Response by Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities to nigel hobro on 1 March 2017.

Information not held.

                             Our reference: 3115107             Information request ----------------------------------------------------------------...
Merseyside special investment Limited and New Concept Gaming Limited
Response by Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities to nigel hobro on 21 December 2016.

Successful.

                             Our reference: 2921672             Information request ----------------------------------------------------------------...
GONW5408EUR
Response by Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities to nigel hobro on 21 December 2016.

Successful.

                             Our reference: 2873352             Information request ----------------------------------------------------------------...
re request FS50620758
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to nigel hobro on 16 December 2016.

Successful.

Dear Mr Hobro,   I refer to your email dated 10 November, which contained the following request for information:-   You recently responded to...
Merseyside special investment Limited and New Concept Gaming Limited
Response by Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to nigel hobro on 13 December 2016.

Information not held.

Mr Hobro,   Please find attached a response to your recent information request, reference FOI2016/32104.   If you have any queries about this...
The BIG Fund
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 11 November 2016.

Awaiting internal review.

Wishtrac may be the organisation. It sells teaching aids. It could be a charity not registered as limited by guarantee or as limited.
ISUS report prepared by Andrew Walker re Wirralbiz aka Enterprise solutions(NW) ltd
Response by Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities to nigel hobro on 22 June 2016.

Successful.

Dear Mr Hobro, In response to your further questions I can confirm that whilst the report does mention the call-off from the framework it does not r...
Isus report from Spring 2014
Response by Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities to nigel hobro on 10 May 2016.

Successful.

                             Our reference: 2297994             Information request ----------------------------------------------------------------...
ISUS and Wirral Borough Council
Request to Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities by nigel hobro. Annotated by ScarletPimpernel on 24 February 2016.

Refused.

@Richard Taylor Yes, decision notice FS50594521 upholds the decision of DCLG to refuse is on s.36 grounds. However if you check the list of First...
Lockwood/Harbac
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by john hardaker on 30 October 2015.

Successful.

Hi Nigel you know the truth ,you know the councils lack of governance so go for their throats and the directors of Harbac & get the DTI to investigate...
Chief executives diary of 7th October 2014
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by T Harrison on 22 October 2015.

Partially successful.

You, at least, have done better than I with my diary request to Merseyside PCC....refused 'as diaries are deleted after 6 weeks unless retained for a...
Original BIG report
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by Rossell Conner on 29 September 2015.

Partially successful.

Mr. Hobro, your home telephone number is referenced within a transcript of a phone call included in the response. You may wish to have this removed
Contracts with Work Programme providers
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to nigel hobro on 18 May 2015.

Successful.

Dear Mr Hobro   Please see the attached letter.     Official Correspondence Team People, Communication and Capability | Please consider the envir...
Wirralbiz invoices to WBC
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by james griffiths on 11 April 2015.

Awaiting internal review.

G'day Ecca Clean this up Gra Gra couldn't. I won't mention Wirral Gate if you fix Big, ISUS and Working Neighbourhoods. Ooroo James
the BIG Fund
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by James Griffiths on 2 March 2015.

Refused.

G'day "Highbrow" Timmins Norman Garry Wilkie Burgess "The Football Shirt" "The Pretend Friend" "Phil the Dill" "The Dunny Chain Wearer""The Chamber P...
Press release of 14th March 2013
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by James Griffiths on 2 March 2015.

Refused.

G'day "Highbrow" Timmins Norman Garry Wilkie Burgess "The Football Shirt" "The Pretend Friend" "Phil the Dill" "The Dunny Chain Wearer""The Chamber P...
working Neighbourhoods, wirralbiz+. and communities enterprise fund and Asset transfer
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by James Griffiths on 2 March 2015.

Refused.

G'day "Highbrow" Timmins Norman Garry Wilkie Burgess "The Football Shirt" "The Pretend Friend" "Phil the Dill" "The Dunny Chain Wearer""The Chamber P...
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This person's 127 annotations

Will Stewart Halliday leave the Council at the end of 2017?
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Charles Nunn. Annotated by nigel hobro on 30 January 2018.

Partially successful.

I imagine the Americans were the first to introduce Freedom of Information precisely because in the matter of the Vietnam War a whole generation were b...
BIG fund-Aspire creative enterprises
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 7 April 2017.

Successful.

I note a perfunctory Cashflow that a schoolboy could write ignoring the rules of vat and if vat acknowleged from month 10 then cashflow falls apart ....
The BIG Fund
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 11 November 2016.

Awaiting internal review.

Wishtrac may be the organisation. It sells teaching aids. It could be a charity not registered as limited by guarantee or as limited.
re request FS50620758
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 10 November 2016.

Successful.

Mr Cardin this is just one of many questions. Some involve a "trade envoy" accompanying Cllr P Davies to Reno , Nevada. This will come separately with...
The BIG Fund
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 10 November 2016.

Awaiting internal review.

wistac ltd does not exist either. Who are these people?
The BIG Fund
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 9 November 2016.

Awaiting internal review.

I have to say that review of these records at Companies House shows a level of insolvencies and leading indicators not to award grants, as these grants...
GIAA Internal Audit report on Business Support Project Operating in the North West Region
Request to Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities by ScarletPimpernel. Annotated by nigel hobro on 29 August 2016.

Refused.

how is it the department sent me, nigel Hobro a copy, which I with "S2's" turned into a digital copy?
ERDF Records. Access to retained Project Information.
Request to Blackpool Borough Council by John Rudkin. Annotated by nigel hobro on 16 August 2016.

Refused.

Nobody got punished John. Nobody at all
ERDF Records. Access to retained Project Information.
Request to Blackpool Borough Council by John Rudkin. Annotated by nigel hobro on 16 August 2016.

Refused.

John Despair thee not. The Govt Internal audit agency looked into my allegations..found I was correct then proceeded to discover flagrant perversion...
The BIG Fund
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 11 July 2016.

Awaiting internal review.

You have sought reliance on s41 FOIAct which I quote below: 41 Information provided in confidence. (1)Information is exempt information if— (a)it...
The BIG Fund
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 11 July 2016.

Awaiting internal review.

43 Commercial interests. (1)Information is exempt information if it constitutes a trade secret. (2)Information is exempt information if its disclos...
ERDF Records. Access to retained Project Information.
Request to Blackpool Borough Council by John Rudkin. Annotated by nigel hobro on 31 May 2016.

Refused.

Neutralize means Wirralbiz!!
ERDF Records. Access to retained Project Information.
Request to Blackpool Borough Council by John Rudkin. Annotated by nigel hobro on 31 May 2016.

Refused.

Some predictive text errors above For wirral read WIRRALBIZ Neutralize??
ERDF Records. Access to retained Project Information.
Request to Blackpool Borough Council by John Rudkin. Annotated by nigel hobro on 31 May 2016.

Refused.

That is a coincidence. The backing sheets to compromising invoices went missing in the Wirral ISUS affair. The sheets would have proven that WBC paid f...
ERDF Records. Access to retained Project Information.
Request to Blackpool Borough Council by John Rudkin. Annotated by nigel hobro on 30 May 2016.

Refused.

John This is crazy that a £100,000 project should, by the council's doings, generate so much work years after it completed. On ly an explanation of...
The BIG Fund
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 11 February 2016.

Awaiting internal review.

Those companies that are liquidated have no right to confidentiality at all. I believe all Wbc need do is trace the recipients back to the freely avail...
observations and right of reply by Wirral Council to GIAA report on BIG/ISUS program
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by ScarletPimpernel. Annotated by nigel hobro on 10 January 2016.

Refused.

N Hobro following this. would not it be better if govt orgs simply owned up to errors rather than attempt eternally to mask failure
The BIG Fund
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 18 December 2015.

Awaiting internal review.

The failure of the council to inform liquidators of their suspicions of asset stripping allied to the Liquidators failure to question as to how an engi...
ERDF Records. Access to retained Project Information.
Request to Blackpool Borough Council by John Rudkin. Annotated by nigel hobro on 4 December 2015.

Refused.

John Your problem is familiar to myself having experienced difficulties at Wirral Borough Council regarding an ERDF fund for Intensive Start Up support...
Chief executives diary of 7th October 2014
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 21 October 2015.

Partially successful.

Well if that was what was in his diary you are acquitted of your duties under FOI as it is the only record that you have. However it does raise quest...
Departure of Super Director Kevin Adderley
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by nigel hobro on 8 October 2015.

Partially successful.

This is more like it a prompt response. The pertinent question about a clean bill of health is unanswered in any meaningful way though we may glean f...
Concerns re: former employee Emma Degg
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by nigel hobro on 24 August 2015.

Refused.

Public servants should expect robust criticism especially when there is much smoke indicating an inferno below. It seems to me that the council is se...
ISUS and Wirral Borough Council
Request to Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 24 August 2015.

Refused.

This is going to the Information Commissioner. The s36 defence is overblown and is a miniature Chilcot/Maxwellisation defence. In the public domain...
Chief executives diary of 7th October 2014
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by nigel hobro. Annotated by nigel hobro on 17 August 2015.

Partially successful.

The meeting that Mr. Burgess was to attend on 7th October 2014 was a Combined Authority Meeting to be held in Wakefield and it was scheduled to last...
Legal & Member Services - Values and Culture Presentation
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by ScarletPimpernel. Annotated by nigel hobro on 13 August 2015.

Partially successful.

What a wastage of your time John. Who the * are these people with their ridiculous s36 and reasonable beliefs. These slides are just about ok but sti...
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