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From: <casework@ico.org.uk>
Date: 16 October 2014 10:51
Subject: IRQ0555556, response from ICO[Ref. IRQ0555556]
To: f@gmail.com
16th October 2014
Thank you for your correspondence of 19 September 2014 in you you made a request for information to the ICO.
In this correspondence you requested:
“Please will you provide me with the following information? This is a FOIA request.
1. who, names please are/is responsible for payments to
2. When was the decision made to make BBC Media Action not accountable to the law?
3. Does the BBC have a list of its investments that are available to the public if not; may we have a reason given for that please?”
Response to request
Firstly, it may be of assistance to explain that the ICO regulates the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act and would likely hold information about an organisation if there was a complaint about them or we were engaging with them.
Having considered the type of information you are asking for and also having carried out reasonable searches we have not been able to locate any information to answer your questions posed under number 1, 2 and 3. For clarity, we have searched our information management systems for complaints or documents held about “BBC Media Action” “BBC list of investments” and can confirm the following; no complaints have been brought to the attention of the ICO about BBC Media Action. There is also no information held on our records management system about “BBC list of investments”. If you have reasons to believe that the ICO holds this information please clarify why, this may assist us in targeting further searches.
If however you wish to bring a concern to the attention of the ICO about “BBC Media Action” or “the BBC's” compliance with the Information Acts including publication schemes and refusal to provide information please use the following link to report it to us
http://ico.org.uk/concerns
I am sorry we could not be of more assistance on this occasion
If you are dissatisfied with the response you have received and wish to request a review of our decision or make a complaint about how your request has been handled you should write to the Information Access team at the address below or e-mailaccessicoinformation@ico.org.
Your request for internal review should be submitted to us within 40
working days of receipt by you of this response. Any such request received after this time will only be considered at the discretion of the
Commissioner.
If having exhausted the review process you are not content that your request or review has been dealt with correctly, you have a further right of appeal to this office in our capacity as the statutory complaint handler under the legislation. To make such an application, please visit the ‘Concerns’ section of our website to make a Freedom of Information Act or Environmental Information Regulations complaint online.
A copy of our review procedure is available herehttp://ico.org.uk/about_us/~/
Yours sincerely
Iman Elmehdawy
Lead Information Access Officer
Case Reference Number IRQ0555556
Dear Ms RobillardThank you for your correspondence of 19 September 2014 in you you made a request for information to the ICO.
In this correspondence you requested:
“Please will you provide me with the following information? This is a FOIA request.
1. who, names please are/is responsible for payments to
2. When was the decision made to make BBC Media Action not accountable to the law?
3. Does the BBC have a list of its investments that are available to the public if not; may we have a reason given for that please?”
Response to request
Firstly, it may be of assistance to explain that the ICO regulates the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act and would likely hold information about an organisation if there was a complaint about them or we were engaging with them.
Having considered the type of information you are asking for and also having carried out reasonable searches we have not been able to locate any information to answer your questions posed under number 1, 2 and 3. For clarity, we have searched our information management systems for complaints or documents held about “BBC Media Action” “BBC list of investments” and can confirm the following; no complaints have been brought to the attention of the ICO about BBC Media Action. There is also no information held on our records management system about “BBC list of investments”. If you have reasons to believe that the ICO holds this information please clarify why, this may assist us in targeting further searches.
If however you wish to bring a concern to the attention of the ICO about “BBC Media Action” or “the BBC's” compliance with the Information Acts including publication schemes and refusal to provide information please use the following link to report it to us
http://ico.org.uk/concerns
I am sorry we could not be of more assistance on this occasion
If you are dissatisfied with the response you have received and wish to request a review of our decision or make a complaint about how your request has been handled you should write to the Information Access team at the address below or e-mailaccessicoinformation@ico.org.
Your request for internal review should be submitted to us within 40
working days of receipt by you of this response. Any such request received after this time will only be considered at the discretion of the
Commissioner.
If having exhausted the review process you are not content that your request or review has been dealt with correctly, you have a further right of appeal to this office in our capacity as the statutory complaint handler under the legislation. To make such an application, please visit the ‘Concerns’ section of our website to make a Freedom of Information Act or Environmental Information Regulations complaint online.
A copy of our review procedure is available herehttp://ico.org.uk/about_us/~/
Yours sincerely
Iman Elmehdawy
Lead Information Access Officer
