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8/7/2019 Response FOI 11685
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[email protected] David Miller Dept. of Geography and SociologyUniversity of Strathclyde50 Richmond Street, GlasgowG1 1XU
Reference: 11685
Dear Mr Miller,
Thank you for your recent e-mail in which you ask for:a) “a list of the title of all documents 2007/8 as part of this series. In
particular RICU/01/07 – RICU/20/07 (or whichever is the last in theseries for that year along with all for 2008), and;
b) A note of the function/type/significance/role/intended audience of thesedocuments.”
We are considering your information request. Although the Freedom of Information Act carries a presumption in favour of disclosure, it provides
exemptions which may be used to withhold information in specifiedcircumstances. Some of these exemptions are subject to a public interesttest. These exemptions are known as qualified exemptions. The publicinterest test is used to balance the public interest in disclosure against thepublic interest in favour of withholding the information under qualifiedexemptions. Section 10(3) of the Act allows us to exceed the 20 working dayresponse target where reasonably necessary to consider the public interesttest fully. This is subject to us telling applicants when we expect to concludeour deliberations and provide a full response.
The information requested must be considered under the exemption
contained within section 24 (National security) of the Act. This is a qualified
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exemption. In order to consider the public interest test fully we need to extendthe 20 working day response period, and now aim to respond by 8 June 2009.
Should you have any queries about the handling of your information requestthen please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely
J Fanshaw