Neil wrote: > Another way to futher bring BW to its knees are Freedom Of Information > Requests (FOI) > Here is a starter for a FOI request from BW "How many full time BW staff are > left that actually *constuctively* manage the waterways"?...why are the > boaters expected to pay for all the others? > I could sit here and think of hundreds of salinet requests! > My future SIL works for Cabinet Office, the thing they dread are stupid FOI > requests that they have to assemble...we could bombard BW with VERY salient > requests!
You may have a point but FOI can be a very slow weapon if you have to go to appeal as I have done with my FOI request on Defra. I went through the internal appeal process and, eventually, took it external to the Information Commissioner's Office on 09 May 2007. I heard nothing at all until 09 October 2007 when I got a letter saying that the ICO staff were overloaded and apologising for the delay. They admitted that my appeal hadn't yet been allocated to an investigation officer but that they would write again as soon as the case had been allocated to an officer. I'm still waiting!!!! It will soon be the birthday of my external appeal, never mind the original request, so you can see that FOI can be a sluggish procedure. I think that they think I've forgotten about it! ;-)))) Roger
