Today I received a partial response from my Freedom of Information request to the Information Commissioner asking for a disposition of cases and all Decision Notices to date. As of today, this website is the only place you can find the full text of these Decision Notices. The IC’s office put a very short summary on its own website. It’s unclear why they haven’t published the full Decision Notices online.
The following documents are available on the Secret Squirrel page.
- FOIA Request (1 June 2005)
- Information Commissioner response (15 June 2005)
- Database of Complaints (15 June 2005) (Excel 57kb) – although any useful data such as names of public authorities have been redacted
- Decision Notice: Inland Revenue (Word 23kb)
- Decision Notice: Bridgnorth District Council (Word 23kb)
- Decision Notice: Land Registry (Word 23kb)
- Decision Notice: Royal Mail (Word 24kb)
- Decision Notice: Shepway District Council (Word 35kb)
- Decision Notice: Rushden Town Council (Word 31kb)
- Decision Notice: Westminster City Council (Word 24kb)
- Decision Notice: Wansbeck District Council (Word 29kb)
- Decision Notice: Medicines & Healthcare Regulatory Agency (Word 25kb)
- Decision Notice: South Holland District Council (Word 26kb)
- Decision Notice: West Cheshire College (Word 24kb)
The Times reports:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-1656128,00.html
“Nearly 1,000 complaints have been referred to Richard Thomas, the information commissioner, where departments have refused to answer FOI requests, The Times has learnt. Although 200 have been processed, Mr Thomas has made decisions on only about ten of these so far, mostly siding with the complainant. “