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Tim Turner
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2011
I don't use this site to make FOI requests any more, but I think it's useful to push back against some of the more unreasonable people who do.
I'm a data protection and FOI trainer: www.2040training.co.uk
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 28)
John Edwards' last day in office
Response by Information Commissioner's Office to Tim Turner on .
Successful
31 October 2024
Case Reference: IC-337506-T5C8
Dear T Turner
Please find attached our response to your request.
Yours sincerely,
Craig Ine...
Staff suspensions
Refused
Oh, Timmy. The good lady internal reviewer overturned the original decision, revealing there were indeed two suspensions, yet somebody claimed "the req...
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...
This person's 301 annotations
You've written your final line in an oddly passive way:
"Continued refusals to comply with the law are matters for the High Court in a judicial revie...
Emails held from NHS trusts.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by Dr Colin Iain Campbell MBChB FRSPH. Annotated by Tim Turner on .
Awaiting classification
You've asked the ICO to provide the addresses that they "reasonably believe" to be the appropriate ones. That suggests that you want the ICO to apply s...
Appeals to the First Tier Tribunal about Right to be Forgotten
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by Caroline Hart at Internet Erasure Ltd. Annotated by Tim Turner on .
Partially successful
You know that FTT decisions are published, don't you?
Request 2571 - accountability in public sector organisations and current trustpilot scoring
Awaiting classification
What's the point of you copying and pasting all the replies as annotations, including the footer text from the website page which is literally on every...
FOI request about FOIA
Long overdue
Small piece of advice: tell the Commissioner who "they" are.
EIR request, ICO Wales office, DEC, DEC RR, CEPC, CEPC RR, AC CERT and ACR reports
Information not held
This request should not be marked as 'Long Overdue'. The ICO answered the request; maybe the applicant (whatever their name actually is) doesn't like t...
The guidance on the Commissioner’s site has no bearing on whether you make a complaint. If you think the GDPR has been breached, make a complaint. Most...
“We respond to an incident of domestic abuse, on average, every 17 minutes." Belfast Telegraph
Successful
There is something disturbing about the thought processes of a person who sees a story about the prevalence of domestic violence and asks "how did you...
Given that the Commissioner's own guidance says that a request for recorded information can be phrased as a question, and the Commissioner publishes am...
Disabled Parking Bays Suspended Alice Ker Square
Awaiting internal review
The FOI Act specifically says that a valid request must include 'the name' of the applicant. Both UK FOI Commissioners interpret that as being the real...
Removing persistent regular cross angry and upset frequent flyers who make information requests and advertise those requests on whatdotheyknow
Awaiting internal review
The Council isn't obliged to provide reasons for "refusals", and an internal review applies only to the current request.
Both FOI Commissioners - the...
Removing persistent regular cross angry and upset frequent flyers who make information requests and advertise those requests on whatdotheyknow
Awaiting internal review
I doubt John Jones will respond to this, but I’ll make the observation anyway.
This is unquestionably an FOI request. The applicant knows that Wirra...
FOI and EIR both work on the balance of probabilities i.e. is a thing more likely than not to be the case?
I think the problem here is that by conti...
Personal Information Access Requests - All data requests
Awaiting classification
It's worth saying that the second part of your request is redundant; you're asking the Commissioner to agree with a statement, not for recorded informa...
Record keeping when finalising data subject access requests
Partially successful
It's worth pointing out that the Information Commissioner doesn't have the power to issue guidance or notes "requiring" public authorities to do anythi...
You've listed several documents that you've checked in order to verify whether the Commissioner has to carry out certain reviews, but you don't mention...
Accessing of a child's education record by a parental authority
Withdrawn by the requester
The answer is in the regulations cited in the part of the guidance you're quoting from. The regulations don't apply to all educational institutions, on...
Incidents of alleged harassment of staff
Partially successful
Has it occurred to you that there are likely to be very low numbers of instances of harassment, precisely because the Commissioner justifiably refuses...
Empty Property Information
Refused
It's worth saying that the Information Commissioner has agreed with multiple different councils when they refuse to disclose information about empty pr...
It's worth saying that unless the Information Commissioner has already calculated the averages you have asked for, they are under no obligation to crea...
Caseworkers
Refused
What is the public interest in publishing the names of all the individual staff? Senior officers names are already public, and only the Commissioner is...
If you were actually interested, you would have sought out the evidence rather than impotently pontificating for a very small audience.
M Boyce
2 things:
1) you asked and yet you are snide when someone literally gives you what you asked for. That's instructive.
2) if you were a ge...
I'm not saying such examples are common, but here is a decision from May 2024.
In this case, the Commissioner as a public authority rejected a reques...
M Boyce
You have repeatedly asserted that the Commissioner treats you as vexatious rather than your requests.
They didn't do so here. I know you wi...