FOI team
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Office for National Statistics
Segensworth Road
Titchfield
PO15 5RRvia email to: foi.team@ons.gov.uk
cc: 2011censuspress@ons.gov.ukSunday 6th February 2011
Dear Sirs,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please disclose the
following information:
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With reference to theStatistics and Registration Service Act 2007 Section 39.
Confidentiality of personal information
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2007/ukpga_20070018_en_3#pt1-pb11-
l1g39 91) Please disclose approximately how many Disclosures of Personal Information, as defined in Section 39 subsection (3), from the 2001 Census or from previous Censuses, you have made in each of the Exempt Categories laid down in Section 39 subsection (4) of the Act:
(a) is required or permitted by any enactment,
(b) is required by a Community obligation,
(c) is necessary for the purpose of enabling or assisting the Board to exercise any of its functions,
(d) has already lawfully been made available to the public,
(e) is made in pursuance of an order of a court,
(f) is made for the purposes of a criminal investigation or criminal proceedings (whether or not in the United Kingdom),
(g) is made, in the interests of national security, to an Intelligence Service,
(h) is made with the consent of the person to whom it relates, or
(i) is made to an approved researcher.
2) What are the Names and Job Titles of the officials who have authorised such Disclosures of Personal Information from the Census.
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Please provide the requested information, ideally by publishing it on your public world wide website, or alternatively by email.
Ideally this should *not* be in the form of a "copy and paste" locked Adobe .pdf file, or similar, attachment.
In the unlikely event that this information is not already available in a standard electronic format, then please explain the reasons why, when you provide the information in another format.
If you are proposing to make a charge for providing the information requested, please provide full details in advance, together with an explanation of any proposed charge.
If you decide to withhold any of the information requested, you should clearly explain why you have done so in your response, by reference to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 legislation.
If your decision to withhold is based upon an evaluation of the Public Interest, then you should clearly explain which public interests you have considered and why you have decided that the
public interest in maintaining the exception(s) outweighs the public interest in releasing the information.I look forward to receiving the information requested as soon as possible and in any event, within the statutory 20 working days from receipt of this email i.e. no later than Friday 4th March 2011
Yours Sincerely,
ONS - Census Data - number of Disclosures exempted under the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 Section 39. Confidentiality of personal information
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