FOI Administration Info
Dear Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council,
I would like to make an FOI request for the following pieces of information:
1. How many people are employed to deal with FOI?
2. What is the budget for administering FOI?
3. Do you use case management software for FOI? If so, which one?
4. Do you publish a disclosure log?
If not all information is available, please treat questions individually.
Yours faithfully,
Alex Parsons
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Dear Alex Parsons,
Thank you for your recent request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.
Your request has been passed to me to process and I can confirm that it
has been logged under the reference number 323/18.
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Yours sincerely
Information Management Officer
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
01256 845369
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Dear Alex,
Further to your recent request made under the Freedom of Information Act
2000, please find below the information requested:-
1. We do not employ anyone whose role is just to deal with FOI
requests. Requests are logged centrally and forwarded to relevant teams
who provide information.
2. No budget
3. Internally created FOI database
4. Yes - [1]https://www.basingstoke.gov.uk/disclosur...
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The Information Governance Officer, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council,
Civic Offices, London Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 4AH.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF
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For your information, we are publishing FOI requests and responses on the
council’s website so the response to this request may be published at a
later date. To view published responses please follow the link below:
[4]FOI Disclosure Log
Yours sincerely
Sarah Ansell
Trainee Solicitor
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
Tel: 01256 845722
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Dear Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council,
I would like to make an FOI request for the following pieces of
information:
1. How many people are employed to deal with FOI?
2. What is the budget for administering FOI?
3. Do you use case management software for FOI? If so, which one?
4. Do you publish a disclosure log?
If not all information is available, please treat questions individually.
Yours faithfully,
Alex Parsons
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including how to access information that we hold on you and how to
complain if you have any concerns about how your personal details are
processed, please see our [12]privacy statement