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Request Refernce: 264700
Request Date: 10 Mar 2005
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In order to assist with this request, I am outlining my query as specifically as possible. Please could you provide me with a copy of your business plan and proposed budget for 2004/05. In addition could you also provide a copy of your business plan and proposed budget for 2005/06, as set out on page 16 (point 19) of the Department of Health’s report An Implementation Framework for Reconfiguring the DH Arm’s Length Bodies: Redistributing Resources to the NHS Frontline. Please could you provide this information to me by email to the above address. If my request is denied in whole or part, I ask that you justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the act. I will also expect to you to release all non-exempt material. I, of course, reserve the right to appeal your decision to withhold any information or to charge excessive fees. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request. I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as outlined by the statute.
Status: Complete Response Date: 07 Apr 2005 Under the Act, we are not required to provide information which is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you requested relating to the Authority?s business plan for 2004/05 is available from our publication scheme at the following address (http://www.ppa.org.uk/pdfs/business_plan_2004_2007.pdf). The information you requested relating to the Authority?s budget for 2004/05 is available from our publication scheme at the following address (http://www.ppa.org.uk/foi/pdfs/class3/meeting090904/Class%203%20-%20Authority%20Meeting%20090904%20-%20Supporting%20Papers%20-%20Finance%20Report.pdf). The information you requested about the Authority?s business plan and budget for 2005/06 is being withheld as it falls under the exemption in section 22 of the Freedom of Information Act. In applying this exemption I have had to balance the public interest in withholding the information against the public interest in disclosing the information. The attached annex to this letter sets out the exemption in full, as well as the factors I considered when deciding where the public interest lay. Annex Section 22 - Information intended for future publication (1) Information is exempt information if - ? the information is held by the public authority with a view to its publication, by the authority or any other person, at some future date (whether determined or not), ? the information was already held with a view to such publication at the time when the request for information was made, and ? it is reasonable in all the circumstances that the information should be withheld from disclosure until the date referred to in paragraph (a). (2) The duty to confirm or deny does not arise if, or to the extent that, compliance with section 1(1)(a) would involve the disclosure of any information (whether or not already recorded) which falls within subsection (1). Factors for disclosure - Public accountability Factors for withholding - Planned publication of the information Reasons why public interest favours withholding information - I consider that as this is work in progress and has not been completed the incremental advantage to releasing this information now (rather than upon the planned publication)is outweighed by the fact that the business plan and budget for 2005-06 has not been finalised and may be subject to significant change and therefore it is inappropriate to disclose at the present time |
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