On 19 Jan 2012, at 11:46, Francis Davey wrote: > 2012/1/19 Francis Irving <[email protected]>: >> My hypothesis would be that a simple reply is completely within the >> act. >> > > Absolutely. There's no "in the Act" - at least not in any obvious > sense. In particular, the Act does not impose any formality on a > positive response. If you ask a question and the answer is supplied, > that is all notionally within the mechanism of the FOIA but need not > actually advert to it.
We probably have a set of really good examples of how a simple reply would have been clearly as informative and cheaper than a complex one. There was that reply from a VC of a university to an FoI request which was one of the best examples I've seen recently. Sam _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
