Tag Archives: data protection

Whistleblower Disclosure – Systematic Misconduct by the Information Commissioner’s Office and Legal Officer Richard Bailey

Posted on August 25, 2025 by Wirral In It Together

Right Honourable Minister Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET Date: 2 August 2025 Dear Lord Valance, I am writing under the public interest disclosure provisions to formally report serious and systemic wrongdoing within … Continue reading →

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Alan Dransfield | LETTER BEFORE ACTION – £17,000,000 Claim & Formal Demands

Posted on August 10, 2025 by Wirral In It Together

Dear Information Commissioner, Please treat this email as a formal Letter Before Action under the Civil Procedure Rules (Pre-Action Protocol). I intend to commence High Court proceedings against the ICO for damages currently estimated at £17,000,000 arising from your sustained … Continue reading →

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“What a load of tosh!!!” ~ Councillor Crabtree. Also, Wirral’s monitoring officer responds to an email sent to the CEO

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

9th May 2014 Confidential_memo_tells_shocked_Wirral_councillors_their_emails_are_being_read_by_town_hall_bosses On 3rd May, with the above Wirral Globe article in mind, I sent the following email to Wirral Council CEO Graham “Mistakes” Burgess, asking whether my own emails to councillors were being filtered / screened / blocked: From: … Continue reading →

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National Audit Office report – Making a Whistleblowing Policy Work

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

This report, a long time in the making, was published today by the National Audit Office: http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Making-a-whistleblowing-policy-work.pdf One of the recurring themes within it points to a failure by government bodies to correctly acknowledge whistleblowers, to register their issues, to act on … Continue reading →

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UPDATE ~ A (strange) response is now in… Dear Information Commissioner’s Blog…

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

From: Paul CSent: 15 August 2013 13:12To: ‘blog@ico.org.uk’Subject: Enforcement Dear ICO blog, “To send a person’s financial records to the wrong fax number once is careless. To do so continually, despite being aware of the problem, is unforgiveable.” I’ve just … Continue reading →

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Vexatious requests… and… Wirral Council runs a screening process for FoI releases

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

18th March 2013 Ever since lodging this, my first FoI request, with Cheshire West & Chester Council back in August 2009, I’ve been busy using my statutory querying rights on a fairly regular basis.  These rights belong to all UK … Continue reading →

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