Category Archives: FoI Requests

Public FoI requests made via www.whatdotheyknow.com

#FoI ~ Wirral’s SECOND “vexatious” rebuttal against me bites the dust

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

26th June 2014 – UPDATE – Wirral Council have capitulated, and have now withdrawn ALL their ‘vexatious’ refusals targetted against me.  Not content with this however, monitoring officer Surjit Tour, head of the legal “team” has made a veiled threat … Continue reading →

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UPDATED ~ Lies, Damned Lies and Machinations…

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

A recent article in the Wirral News (a paper with no hint of Wirral Council scandal between its obedient pages since, er…  February) …tells us that the “What Really Matters” survey is going really well.  Councillor Musprattt reports on progress: “I think the … Continue reading →

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#FoI Act – Arguing against ‘Confidentiality’ and ‘Commercial Confidence’ exemptions

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

Wirral Council’s disability discrimination ~ found in 2010 by the Equality and Human Rights Commission First ICO Decision Notice Second ICO Decision Notice The following requests were sent to Wirral Council almost a year ago, but were never answered.  It has taken … Continue reading →

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The Saga of DLA Piper – can the truth finally be allowed to emerge? Er, not yet…

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

Regular readers of the blog will be well aware of this one, and the depressing depths to which senior officers and councillors of Wirral Council have plummeted in order to draw a concealing veil across disability discrimination – as found by … Continue reading →

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More added ~ #FoI ~ Wirral Council ~ Links to all my ICO Decision Notices

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

SCORES ON THE DOORS: Decision Notices issued: 13 Complaints upheld: 14 Complaints not upheld: 3 There are more DNs in the pipeline… 27th August 2014 (Original request lodged 7 months prior to this on 22nd January 2014 Summary: The complainant … Continue reading →

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UPDATED ~ Post ICO “vexatious” mauling – #WirralFail Council have coughed . No sign of ICO Decision Notice

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

SCROLL DOWN FOR LATEST NEWS… My FoI request, asking for information about former Chief Internal Auditor, David Garry, was not vexatious. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/departure_of_chief_internal_audi More importantly, I, Paul Cardin, was not being “obsessive”, as deemed by a council solicitor – or whoever … Continue reading →

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#FoI request – Payouts to Officers of Wirral Council

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/payouts_to_officers_of_wirral_co/new From: Paul Cardin 6 October 2013 Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, Please browse to Wirral Leaks, an increasingly popular Wirral-based blog, and to the post dated 5th October 2013, entitled: “Bullying Is An Ugg-ly Business” http://wirralleaks.wordpress.com/2013/10… This blog has been … Continue reading →

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Scandal-torn, Far right Wirral Council, has no “External Investigations Policy”.

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

4th October 2013 Some unsettling news arrived today, tucked away in an email from the Information Commissioner’s Office.  This revelation concerns a Freedom of Information request placed 16 months ago, way back in May 2012.  Wirral Council and the ICO have corresponded on it recently… PROTECT … Continue reading →

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UPDATE ~ #FoI ~ When is an undertaking, er… not necessarily an undertaking…?

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

When it’s been handed to Wirral Council? Here’s an email I sent to Graham “Mistakes” Burgess, Wirral’s Chief Executive on 25th September 2013… From: Paul C Sent: 25 September 2013 21:57 To: ‘Burgess, Graham’ Subject: Freedom of Information undertaking. A public … Continue reading →

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15 months on, an answer is in for my FoI request about former CEO Jim Wilkie

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

Like previous favoured ex-employees, former Chief executive Jim Wilkie is having his personal information AND privacy jealously guarded by his former employer, Wirral Council.  In fact they’ve gone way beyond the extra mile once again. Remember when it took over a YEAR to … Continue reading →

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