Paul Cardin
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2008
Here's an analysis of 14 of my requests to Wirral Council, in the North West of England.
I think you'd agree, their performance is atrocious, placing them possibly amongst the worst in the country, and it makes for rather depressing reading:
http://wirralinittogether.wordpress.com/...
...particularly in light of this:
http://democracy.wirral.gov.uk/documents...
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 466)
Wirral Council 5G strategy and LED streetlighting concerns
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Cardin,
Thank you for your further correspondence requesting an internal review.
The Council will aim to respond to this within 20 working da...
Maura Noone, Reading's departed Interim Head of Adult Social Care. Please provide some essential information.
Partially successful.
Hi Martyn,
I've only just spotted your annotation ... very late in the day.
I'm aware through another source that it appears an application may hav...
Dear Paul Cardin,
Thank you for your communication dated 17 May 2019.
NHS England has assessed your communication as a request under the Fr...
How much money is paid to the Reverend David Chester (or his substitutes) / his church for their attendance at Council meetings, e.g. prayers said before Council meetings?
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Cardin,
Thank you for your recent FOI request, submitted under the Freedom of Information Act.
I can confirm that no payments have ever been...
Mr Paul Cardin
[1][FOI #557058 email]
Our ref: 22513
Dear Mr Cardin
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Partial Release of
Inform...
Having checked all the links I posted to Don Latham's local authority consultancy work quoted above, they've all been removed in the six years since th...
Dear Mr Cardin,
Thank you for your recently submitted request, made under the Freedom of
Information Act.
Please see the questions y...
Stress related absence and exit figures
Response by Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to Paul Cardin on .
Partially successful.
Our Ref: LMS/LG/JT/Access.60230-01-19
Dear Mr Cardin
Please find attache...
Investigation of person involved in alleged assault at 11:30pm on 3rd August 2018 at Liverpool Central Station
Response by British Transport Police to Paul Cardin on .
Long overdue.
Dear Mr Cardin
Thank you for your email.
Please find attached a copy of my response sent to you yesterday, however I note that for some unknown reas...
Compromise agreements / gagging clauses used between January 2011 and December 2013
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Cardin,
Thank you for your email of 8^th November 2018. It is noted that the
schedule which was sent to you was not correct. This has...
Voting record of Prenton member Councillor Tony Norbury
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr. Cardin,
I write further to your request for an internal review of our response to
your request for information under the Freedom of Inf...
Alleged 24-hour public lighting scheme at Hamilton Square Conservation area
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on .
Long overdue.
Dear Mr. Cardin,
I write further to your emails of 21 September and 3 October 2018.
Please accept my apologies for any confusion with regards to y...
Investigation of person involved in alleged assault at 11:30pm on 3rd August 2018 at Liverpool Central Station
Response by British Transport Police Authority to Paul Cardin on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Cardin,
I write in response to your email which seeks information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000, received on 17^th September...
Total Figure for LOBO loans and percentage of Council Tax used to pay off the interest
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Cardin
Further to your response email of 18 September 2018, we can confirm that
the information provided to you is correct.
Barcla...
DASS - Recent Departure of Two Senior Officers
Partially successful.
June 2018.
As predicted, both of these proven abusers have secured senior roles in "caring" positions.
Mike Fowler at the charity Brook Young Peopl...
Numbers of persons exposed to nerve agents - known to Porton Down and the UK Ministry of Defence
Response by Ministry of Defence to Paul Cardin on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Cardin,
Please find attached our response to your recent enquiry.
Regards
MOD
Dear Ministry of Defence,
Between 1st January 1971...
Statement confirming the Death of "Shanghai on the Irish Sea"
Partially successful.
How many times are the people caught lying before action is taken against them. It seems that we will be stuck with an incompetent, lying, corrupt bunc...
Public Money Spent on Wirral Globe Wraparound Advertising for Wirral Well Made / Wirral Growth Company dated 3rd January 2018
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Cardin
Further to your Freedom of Information request in which you asked:
“Please forward a figure for the total amount of public m...
Benefit: Discretionary Housing Payments
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Cardin,
I refer to paragraph 3 of the ICO decision notice dated 2 November 2017
and enclose the information required to be disclosed by...
KINGSPAN COOLTHERM Insulation - have you installed it?
Response by Wirral Partnership Homes Limited to Paul Cardin on .
Refused.
For the attention of Paul Cardin,
Out of courtesy, we are replying to you again following your first request
being reviewed by an Executive Dire...
The ICO stood strong with the council.
I will now leave it to Councillor Ian Lewis, a much greater freedom fighter than I (if in receipt of his allow...
Audit Investigations and Wrongly Calculated Payments
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on .
Refused.
Dear Mr. Cardin,
Thank you for request for an Internal Review. Please see my comments alongside your original questions below. If you remain dissatisfi...
Alleged brick thrown through communal stairwell window in Sherlock House, Manor Road, Wallasey on 11th or 12th July 2016
Response by Merseyside Police to Paul Cardin on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr. Cardin,
Response - FOIA Application – DJ2016 - 1240 MERPOL (please quote in all
correspondence)
I write in connection with yo...
Alleged brick thrown through communal stairwell window in Sherlock House, Manor Road, Wallasey on 11th or 12th July 2016
Response by Merseyside Police to Paul Cardin on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr. Cardin,
I provide a revised response table to your FOI request (our ref.
DJ2016-807) having revisited the case at the request of the In...
Senior Staff & Member Visits to China
Response by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council to Paul Cardin on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Cardin
Further to your recent email, I can advise the following:
Leader's flight: £627.72
Internal flights: £1175 approx. (paid in Chinese...
This person's 1003 annotations
letter from Wirral Council's auditors Grant Thornton UK LLP regarding LOBO loans objection
Partially successful.
In the interests of openness, transparency and with a burning and justified desire in holding corporately abusive Wirral Council's feet to the fire at...
Maura Noone, Reading's departed Interim Head of Adult Social Care. Please provide some essential information.
Partially successful.
Hi Martyn,
I've only just spotted your annotation ... very late in the day.
I'm aware through another source that it appears an application may hav...
Having checked all the links I posted to Don Latham's local authority consultancy work quoted above, they've all been removed in the six years since th...
3G, 4G and 5G plans
Refused.
For those interested, link to a letter from Doctors and Scientists highlighting the dangers of 5G:
http://www.5gappeal.eu/scientists-and-doctors-warn...
In my opinion, you wouldn't leave a "fault" to stand, untouched, allowing the burning of several floodlights for 24 hours a day and permit this wastage...
Compromise agreements / gagging clauses used between January 2011 and December 2013
Awaiting classification.
On updating the status of the request there wasn't an option to to say "they lied", so I ticked "I'm still waiting for the information".
We will be r...
DASS - Recent Departure of Two Senior Officers
Partially successful.
June 2018.
As predicted, both of these proven abusers have secured senior roles in "caring" positions.
Mike Fowler at the charity Brook Young Peopl...
Suspensions
Refused.
Hi Matthew,
My advice to you would be to request an internal review, stating that the Act requires a data controller to respond and provide informati...
Caselaw...
http://www.irwinmitchell.com/newsandmedia/2015/march/successful-challenge-of-sandwell-councils-benefits-policy-could-have-consequences-ac...
Despite this case being 'allocated', there has been a two-month period of silence from the ICO. I sent this email this morning to Senior Case Officer...
GRENFELL TOWER - Numbers of Victims Unaccounted For
Long overdue.
Lance, watch them closely. They may dodge the first 4 questions as they're Yes/No answers. It's better to frame the questions along the lines e.g. "Pl...
Following Wirral Council's latest failure and its inability to respond, this serious case will be appealed to the ICO.
Here's the latest update to th...
Link to leaked internal email.
Shows Wirral Council Monitoring Officer's acceptance that the council's treatment of DHP applications had been unlawfu...
Stewart Halliday
Refused.
Hi Charles,
A Twitter friend of mine found the following:
Local Gov Transparency Code 2015.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-gove...
2015 General Election Expenses Fraud - Breakdown of staff investigation time by role and task(s)
Long overdue.
Personally I would challenge the exemption quoted (Section 40 Personal data) and take it all the way.
I doubt the ICO or any subsequent tribunal woul...
The ICO stood strong with the council.
I will now leave it to Councillor Ian Lewis, a much greater freedom fighter than I (if in receipt of his allow...
I blogged on this FOI request, outlining to the public some related background material ...and how public suspicion has been alerted ...to an increasin...
Alleged brick thrown through communal stairwell window in Sherlock House, Manor Road, Wallasey on 11th or 12th July 2016
Partially successful.
Advice here from the ICO regarding repeat requests.
This is not a repeat request in line with the following:
"19. An authority can only apply Secti...
re request FS50620758
Successful.
BOOM!! ...I believe is the word Nigel.
Public Health inquiries from Diane Abbott MP
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Office of Diane Abbott MP. Annotated by Paul Cardin on .
Successful.
There are allegations that CGL (Change, Grow, Live), Wirral Council contract holders, may enjoy an undeclared competitive advantage through their use o...
Public Health inquiries from Diane Abbott MP
Request to Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council by Office of Diane Abbott MP. Annotated by Paul Cardin on .
Successful.
This is a message to assist Diane Abbott MP and other interested parties.
Members of the Wirral public noted recently that the highly informative loc...
17th September 2016
Appealed to the Information Commissioner.
Alleged brick thrown through communal stairwell window in Sherlock House, Manor Road, Wallasey on 11th or 12th July 2016
Partially successful.
16th September 2016
Appealed to the Information Commissioner
https://wirralinittogether.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/brickgate-angela-eagle-merseyside-...
For anybody reading this:
Here's a link to ICO guidance on response times. Wirral Council are failing the public again. In the absence of any respons...
Broken window at Sherlock House
Partially successful.
Hi Ann,
I checked in here with the intention of making my own FOI request of Merseyside Police but spotted that you had already anticipated my questi...