Again, the MOJ's response was not illuminating: while the department does hold the data requested, it is not currently in a format that enables it to be shared without exceeding the financial limit imposed
by the FOI regime.
Now that people asked for confidentiality statements and have read the various statutes, we know that CRU is required to ask the countried as requried
by FOI, right?
Would there be any chance of securing Mann's ZIP file
by FOI?
Many in the skeptic camp, Steve McIntyre prominent among them, regard the issue of «harassment
by FOI» to be a canard, and -LSB-...]
That a cabal of scientists successfully conspired to remove editors is well established by their own words, contained in a set of emails that should have been released
by FOI but which were illegally (and successfully) withheld.
The first is that deletion of emails by Wahl is of absolutely no consequence since he was not bound
by FOI legislation and the substance of the deleted material was minor.
- And there was no problem in deleting them anyway cause we are not bound
by the FOI.
Geoff, Nick's point is that Mann's actions are not covered
by the FOI whereas Jones's are.
The Government subsequently introduced an amendment at Report Stage to add academies to the list of public bodies, persons or office holders covered
by the FOI Act so that academies must comply with the requirements of FOI.
Spare a thought also for the parish of Walberwick where the council resigned on masse over a combination of cover ups and Christmas trees exposed
by FOI requests.
Not exact matches
The revelation follows the release in May, following another
FoI battle, of the so - called «black spider memos» sent
by the Prince to ministers over several years.
The archived file of the above page about an SPRS event shows that prior to the controversy over the advertising campaign, there was an extra sentence saying «The event was organised
by the Paediatric Society of Rio Grande do Sul with the support of Nestlé — Nutrition» («O evento
foi promovido pela Sociedade de Pediatria do Rio Grande do Sul com apoio da Nestlé — Nutrition.»).
That «coalition» approach is underpinned
by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and
FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.
The
FOI Act has become a smokescreen to hide the ongoing erosion of freedom and democracy
by this Govt, from ID cards to the Planning Act.
The Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling also complained that
FOI was being abused
by journalists (though the Daily Mail pointed out that he was quite a fan of
FOI in opposition).
In 2012 he was a little less enthusiastic, speaking of how
FOI can «occasionally fur up the arteries of government» and
by 2015 he was referring to it as just another «buggeration factor» alongside judicial review and Health and Safety laws.
They get a very narrow, and negative, view of what requests are received and are prone to view
FOI as a «problem» and see it as «abused»
by the media.
The case at the Information Tribunal is occurring in part as a result of a Freedom of Information (
FOI) request made
by the BHA, asking for this information.
The two documents were obtained
by the BHA after it won a case at the Information Tribunal last month, following on from a Freedom of Information (
FOI) request the BHA submitted over two years ago.
He told me he was prohibited
by law from talking with me because I had submitted
FOI requests.
Zemsky is a thoroughly decent fellow and I alerted him to my
FOI request in the hope that he would nudge the bureaucracy he now leads into playing
by the rules.
The Empire State Development Corp., which funds the Buffalo Billion work that Fort Schuyler manages, is now dragging its feet in providing information requested
by Investigative Post under the
FOI Law.
The data referenced in this section comes from
FOI requests made
by Liam Sheehan to the borough councils and GLA.
The revelations come as a result of Freedom of Information (
FOI) requests submitted to the school
by the BHA and other campaigners.
The
FOI appeal was brought
by Mr Burnham's predecessor John Healey, who said the decision gave «strong legal support to a full and open debate about the NHS reorganisation».
«According to a Freedom of Information (
FOI) request carried out in March 2011
by the NUT and National Association of Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC) almost a third (29.3 per cent) of Local Authorities in England are not holding back the EMAG grant to meet the specific educational needs of minority ethnic pupils.
This involves funneling hundreds of millions of state dollars through non-profit development corporations controlled
by Kaloyeros that have maintained they are private entities, exempt from transparency measures such as the
FOI and Open Meetings laws.
His remarks were condemned
by Tom Watson, the deputy leader of the Labour party, who believes the
FoI Act should be strengthened, not undermined.
Plans being considered
by Michael Gove suggest the government is planning a two - pronged attack on the Freedom of Information Act (
FoI) following the publication of Prince Charles» «black spider» letters.
The release has come in response to a Freedom of Information (
FOI) request submitted
by the British Humanist Association (BHA) in June 2011, and a subsequent Information Tribunal case which the BHA won over the DfE last month.
The
FOI request was submitted
by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and asked for a copy of the investigation carried out in 2010
by the DfE's Free Schools team into whether or not Steiner schools should receive state funding.
The ruling was made last month in response to a Freedom of Information (
FOI) request submitted
by the British Humanist Association (BHA) in June 2011, and will now be considered
by a judge at the Information Tribunal.
The analysis of 3,494 contracts awarded
by 182 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England between April 2013 and August 2014 — disclosed to the BMJ under the Freedom of Information (
FOI) Act — showed that in total, non NHS providers have secured 45 % of contracts awarded since April 2013.
And information obtained
by the BBC under a
FOI request showed that «over the past 12 months, [police] have spent precisely # 5,649.09 on the investigation.
The animal rights group British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) first filed a freedom of information (
FOI) request in 2008 for experiments
by neuroscientist Alexander Thiele, who performs fMRI studies with macaques to study vision.
The article also notes the recent campaign
by former Manchester MP John Leech, who «declared war» on apps Tinder and Grindr, after an
FOI request revealed that 58 crimes across Greater Manchester were linked to the two apps.
In response to a freedom of information (
FoI) request submitted
by the Local Schools Network, the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed it spent over # 3 million to transfer 23 academies to new trusts.
Over the past three years, the Center has been pursuing this mission
by creating an R&D platform in North America under the auspices of the Frontiers of Innovation (
FOI) initiative.
We are creating a model to do just that through our Frontiers of Innovation (
FOI) initiative
by embracing three core principles: science as a different way of thinking, innovation as a different way of working, and distributed leadership as prerequisite to collective change.
The
FOI community is driven
by constructive dissatisfaction with the status quo combined with the conviction that we can and must do better.
This award is one of a series awarded from a $ 2,000,000 Innovation Fund created
by Hemera, with the purpose of supporting the Center's Frontiers of Innovation initiative (the «
FOI Initiative») and its collaborators.
One of the unique aspects of the TSM, which sets us apart from others who have begun to articulate similar innovation agendas, is our structured approach to providing technical assistance and ongoing support for projects that receive
FOI funding, as well as for those whose work with us is funded
by other sources.
According to a Freedom of Information request (
FoI)
by specialist lawyers Simpson Millar, over 100 local authorities have failed to produce a plan to help children with special educational needs (SEN) transition to secondary school.
The findings from the
FoI suggested that 3,812 children are yet to have an educational Health Care plan put in place
by their local council, despite the deadline passing three months ago.
The DfE turned down another part of the
FOI request, which sought the minutes of meetings held so far
by the RSC - led headteacher boards, after an unnamed minister decided that disclosure would «prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs».
The BBC's
FOI to all local authorities in England revealed # 32.5 m has been spent
by councils on clearing debts since the Academies Act was introduced in 2010.
Two recent
FOI requests concerning the process parents and others should use to report violations
by Capital Prep Magnet School of federal and state special education laws remain unanswered.
FOI laws were created to allow individuals to access public data held
by the Federal Government, and since the IRS is part of that Government, you can use Freedom of Information Requests to see how they calculated your back taxes owed, how they've determined what penalties, fees, fines, and interest should apply to your debt, and look for problems that would allow you to reduce or even wipe out the money that they're demanding.
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