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Tim Turner
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2011
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 26)
PROTECT
31 March 2014
Case Reference Number IRQ0533241
Dear Mr Turner
I am writing further to our 6 March acknowledgement of your cor...
Ref: NIC-253013-M1J4B
Dear Tim,
Many thanks for your email, please find our full response attached.
Kind Regards,
Joanne Vause
Contact C...
Statement by Dan Poulter
Information not held.
With Tim's permission, I've blogged about the response to this request http://informationrightsandwrongs.com/2014/03/21/opting-patients-out-of-care-dat...
Dear Mr Turner,
Re: Freedom of Information request (Our Ref: SDR 214670)
Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request date...
Information Commissioner's role in assessing GP opt-out rates
Response by Department of Health and Social Care to Tim Turner on .
Information not held.
Dear Mr Turner
Please find attached the Department of Health’s reply following your
request for an Internal Review into the above-mentioned case...
Ref: NIC-247737-T2X0S
Dear Mr Turner,
Many thanks for your recent Freedom of Information request.
We have now received a reply to this from...
Dear Mr Turner,
Thank you for your email dated 18 February 2014. This is just an email to
confirm that NHS England does not hold any information...
Information Notice involved in FER0488315
Response by Information Commissioner's Office to Tim Turner on .
Successful.
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13th December 2013
Case Reference Number IRQ0521313
Dear Mr Turner
I am writing further to our 20 November acknowledgeme...
Purchase of data from IPSOS Mori
Follow up sent to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by Tim Turner on .
Awaiting internal review.
This internal review is more than a month overdue.
Can you provide me with a response?
Yours faithfully,
Tim Turner
Please find attached your response letter and FOI appeals notice.
Kind Regards,
Information Access Team
Surrey Police
Email: [1][email addre...
Statements about information sharing
Response by Department for Education to Tim Turner on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Turner,
Thank you for your email of the 13^th September about the recent article
in the “Daily Telegraph” on children’s homes by the Secretar...
Plebs
Information not held.
They refused it as vexatious, did they?
Use of unattributed sources in decision-making
Response by Information Commissioner's Office to Tim Turner on .
Refused.
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29 April 2013
Case Reference Number IRQ0492052
Dear Mr Turner
I am writing further to our 2 April acknowledgement of your req...
Information held by Primary Care Trusts
Response by Information Commissioner's Office to Tim Turner on .
Information not held.
Thank you for emailing the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). This
is an automatic acknowledgement to tell you we have received your email
saf...
Dear Ms Cross,
Thank you for your email of 16 October regarding our response to Request
ref 3408.
Though we included the correct email add...
Meetings between Secretary of State and religious groups
Response by Department for Education to Tim Turner on .
Refused.
Dear Mr Turner,
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 18 July 2012.
You asked:
‘I would like to request the following info...
Yes - of all the possible and legitimate reasons to refuse this request, I think personal data is the most implausible.
Dear Mr Turner
Request for information: Freedom of Information request - School Meals
Reference: argyllbuteir:1151.
I refer to your reque...
Dear Tim Turner
Please see attached the reply to your internal review request.
Regards
FOI Team
Knowledge and Information Managemen...
Dear Mr. Turner
Freedom of Information Request Reference No: 2012050000149
I write in connection with your following request for information whi...
Proposals for FOI charges
Refused.
I have now appealed this to the ICO. And the long wait begins.
Dear Mr Turner,
I refer to your request for an internal review of the Department for
Education's handling of your FOI request 'Kettles', case referen...
Dear Mr Turner,
Please find attached HMRC's response to your review request.
Yours sincerely
Teresa Chance
FOI Policy Adviser
Central Policy
Rm 1C/2...
Private email accounts
Information not held.
Politicians and officials should grow up and stop hiding information in private email accounts. However, this and the other response I have received sh...
Correspondence relevant to IRQ0428449
Response by Information Commissioner's Office to Tim Turner on .
Successful.
8th February 2012
Case Reference Number IRQ0432135
Dear Mr Turner
Further to our acknowledgement of 25 January 2012 we are now in a position...
This person's 111 annotations
They don't.
How many times has the ICO fined the DWP ?
Successful.
ICO has never fined the DWP.
List of breach/incident notification since enactment of GDPR
Partially successful.
How would the ICO know what costs were incurred by the organisation? The ICO isn't obliged to ask for that information (and they never do) and the orga...
This FOI request is a bit pointless.
The definition of vexatious is available in Dransfield's numerous failed appeals (especially his original humil...
Given that the requester is seemingly unaware of the risks of publishing people's data online, why is What Do They Know allowing them to use the site a...
Ignore a Freedom of Information request
Awaiting classification.
I have made many FOI requests to organisations that would be described as the 'civil service' and have complained about them to the ICO. They have not...
Forewords to commercial books
Successful.
I made an FOI to the ICO, and they had to admit that they had no recorded information about Mr Kolah's experience, despite Mrs Denham making strong sta...
"The ICO are not IT Experts"
Partially successful.
The first four questions effectively ask for the Commissioner's view on something rather than for recorded information.
The answer to the fifth quest...
Current Case Status; Yahoo, Equifax, Shine, Uber
Partially successful.
Is it possible that in the case of foreign / US companies, they are not processing data in the UK, and therefore ICO may not have the power to enforce...
Telephone Preference Service
Partially successful.
Given that the ePrivacy Regulation may end up requiring consent for all marketing phone calls (something that I would be very keen to happen), the Tele...
Councillors - Registered Data Controllers
Partially successful.
It's worth saying that the register of Data Controllers is searchable, so if you want to know which councillors have notified, all you need to do is se...
Information received by the Information Commissioner cannot be disclosed in most cases - it's actually a criminal offence for the ICO to disclose much...
Criminal data and exempt information
Long overdue.
This isn't a request for information, as the ICO has clearly explained. FOI is about information that is already held - it doesn't apply to situations...
It's worth saying that information can be confidential even where a confidentiality agreement has not been signed, despite the assertion above that thi...
How the ICO selects authorities for monitoring
Partially successful.
The problem with the ICO being funded by fines is that it becomes a perverse incentive to issue them. I'm not saying that there aren't organisations de...
How the ICO selects authorities for monitoring
Partially successful.
It's worth noting that the ICO doesn't have the power to issue fines under the Freedom of Information Act. They can issue Enforcement Notices and they...
Not Grounded in Reality
Request to Channel Four Television Corporation by Common Law Jurisdiction. Annotated by Tim Turner on .
Long overdue.
I'd say this is the stupidest FOI request I have ever seen, but I have seen some of your other ones.
Jobcentre Plus districts and thier DPA Data Controllers
Partially successful.
The data controller isn't a specified individual - the data controller is the organisation as a whole. This is a very common misconception, but that's...
Failing to minute your meetings Lawfully
Request to Northwich Town Council by Northwich Guardians (Account suspended). Annotated by Tim Turner on .
Long overdue.
If the issue in question was not minuted, what recorded information is the council likely to have?
Complain about ICO to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman or sue the errant Data Controller under S13 of the DPA - these are the steps open...
Refusing to Process Subject Access Requests
Successful.
The Data Protection Act contains a series of exemptions, and it is also possible to argue that a document, even if it contains a person's name, does no...
Name of the 'Historical Society'
Refused.
The ICO does not issue fines for S55 offences. The fines are applied by the Court. It's misleading to suggest otherwise.
The ICO is not an ombudsman (i.e. an organisation who resolves complaints); they are a regulator (i.e. an organisation designed to ensure that certain...
Can a request be made using pseudonym
Partially successful.
FOI Act states "the name" of the applicant, not "a name" - hard to argue that a pseudonym that you are not normally known by is legally valid for FOI p...
Abuse of Legislation
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by Pat James (Account suspended). Annotated by Tim Turner on .
Refused.
The request asks for an interpretation rather than recorded information - i.e. it asks "does the FOI Act allow this?" It is conceivable that the answer...