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Dear Halton 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

Halton Borough Council

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your enquiry. The enquiry has been logged on our FOI tracking system and is being dealt with.

The case number is shown in the subject line of the e-mail.

Should you have any further queries please quote this reference number.

Please use [email address] for any further correspondence.

Thank You

Halton Direct Link.

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Information Governance Service,

Further to your recent request under the Freedom of Information Act please
find the response below from Halton Borough Council.

1. How many people are employed to deal with FOI?
2 members of staff; 1 Divisional Manager, 1 Information Governance Officer
– employed to Information Governance for the Council and schools,
including FOIs and responsible for producing information governance
related policies for the Council and schools, including FOI procedures,
guidance, training and administration/monitoring of the corporate request
tracking system.  FOI requests are allocated to the relevant Council
service areas for action and response. 

2. What is the budget for administering FOI?

The authority has not allocated any specific funding for FOI.

3. Do you use case management software for FOI? If so, which one?
System developed in-house
4. Do you publish a disclosure log?
No

Information Governance Service

Service Improvement Division
Halton Borough Council

 

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