This blog is aimed at shaming those who ignore health and safety and those who abuse the Freedom of Information Act out of laziness, corruption or to cover up incompetence.
Email sent – 27 April 2015 07:31
Dear Mr Bradshaw MP
Please see the following article ref credit card fraud by local authorities nationwide.
Could this be happening in Exeter? I have just submitted a FOIA recently
to both the City and Devon County Council for credit card details and
payments.
For your information,action and files.
Yours sincerely
Alan M Dransfield
Email sent – 27 April 2015 08:04
Justice Select Committee
Dear Sirs
Please see the latest FOI decision from the Devon County
Council (DCC) which supports my claims the DCC are knowing and willfully breaching
the FOIA 2000 by sending out such FOIA/EIR decisions.
This particular school is the subject to a £7million
pound high court claim, hence, passes the public interest test. It therefore
beggars belief the DCC can attempt to rely on EIR Regs 12(4)(b) manifestly unreasonable.
The DCC claim context and history of my FOIA requests
being Health & Safety. However, this is a brand new request, and hence cannot be context and
history.
They also rely upon “The Burden of Compliance” which is neither section 14(1) of the FOIA or section 12 of the EIR. If they wish to rely
on a cost exemption they should apply the proper exemption.
This attached letter from the DCC is a tool to assist the
passage of fraud and Deception by the DCC.
Please add this letter from the DCC to my list of
complaints against the ICO & DCC.
For your information, action and files
With thanks
Yours etc
Alan M Dransfield
http://www.sovereignindependentuk.co.uk/2013/09/13/green-egg-on-face-7m-eco-school-springs-a-leak-pupils-herded-into-tents-for-further-sustainable-indoctrination-cui-bono/
Email sent – 26 April 2015 06:54
Rt Hon Erick Pickles Minister for Local Government and Rt Hon Ben Bradshaw
MP for Exeter.
Dear Mr Pickles and Mr Bradshaw
I received 4 FOIA responses yesterday Sat 25th Apr 2015 and no one of them
was refused under section 14(1) vexatious. Wow, I am impressed with the New FOIA
Officer Mr Simon Osborne.
They were:
1. Ref 2733697 Dartington School. Refused under EIR 12(4)(b) which is still vexatious in any language.
2.Ref 2733499 Chumliegh School. Refused. Do not hold information.
3.Ref2733996.Moretime required ref DCC credit cards.
4.Ref2733698. Full response ref DCC Legal Fee ref Dartington School legal fees.
However, I am still not satisfied with the Devon County Council because I now have to write
another letter and hand carry or send it by snail mail owing to the lifetime
email ban against me as I wish to seek a DCC review on their FOIA decisions in
1/4 above. I am also debarred using the DCC on-line complaint form.
Ref the item #1 above , the DCC exemption yesterday was in response to my
FOIA request for information on Dartington Eco School, which I remind you is
the new £7 million Eco School currently before the High Court which is
unsafe and unfit for purpose.
The DCC claim my Dartington FOIA request is “MANIFESTLY UNREASONABLE IN
ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION 12(4)(b)”.
My response to that is hogwash, we have a situation where a £7 million
pound school is unsafe and unfit for purpose and is currently before the High
Court which has cost the DCC £64K(so Far) in Legal Fees and the DCC claim EIR
section 12 (b)(4).
In a nutshell section 12(4)(b) of the EIR is a GET-OUT-OF-JAIL-FREE-CARD
and is in essence the bastard brother of section 14(1) vexatious.
It beggars belief the DCC have now claimed section “MANIFESTLY
UNREASONABLE” for this particular school which is unsafe and unfit for
purpose.
The public interest and public openness and transparency far outweighs the
DCC need for secrecy.
In the event you are re-elected at the General Election Mr Bradshaw, you
need to kick down some doors are ask the DCC why they are consistently abusing
the FOIA 2000 & EIR 98. The DCC is still knowingly and willfully abusing both Acts. Mr Pickles, in the event you are re-elected you also need to kick the
doors down and check the fuse boxes in the DCC transparency, accountability and
security (TAS) department because I claim the TAS lights have been turned off
for the last 5 years ref DCC FOIA .
For your information action and files
With thanks
Yours sincerely
Alan M Dransfield.
Email sent – 04 April 2015 07:33
Dear Mr Bradshaw
Please see the BBC URL link which shows the Devon County Council have used over 240
compromise agreement aka gagging orders.
This press report also claims you were very concerned about the use of
such agreements.
What did you actually do about it, Mr Bradshaw…?
In the event you get selected as MP for Exeter again …. you need
to kick some doors down at the DCC and demand some answers to your (my)
questions.
These compromised agreements are little short of gagging orders.
The fraudulent contract between the DCC and NPS is beginning to make sense now. The main aim of the DCC/NPS “Project Agreement” is to cut down the existing
DCC staff to a bare minimum, bring in a management team, treat the general public as a mushroom farm ,i.e keep them in the dark and feed them
b******t.
For you information, action and files.
With thanks
Yours sincerely
Alan M Dransfield
Email sent – 28 March 2015 21:43
Dear Mr Bradshaw
Please see the response from the Devon County Council ref my latest 4 Freedom Of Information requests and I
must say I am very impressed at their speedy response.
I would prophetise the DCC will refuse these requests under section 14/1
vexatious exemptions.
Time will tell.
For your information and files.
Yours sincerely
Alan M Dransfield
Email sent – 14 March 2015 08:37
Dear Mr Bradshaw MP
Ref your letter dated 12th March 2015 attached to the letter from Kris Hopkins
at the Department of Communities and Local Government. To be frank with you Mr Bradshaw, it may possibly be that you are both painted with the same
incompetent/negligent brush.
How on earth can Devon County Council achieve value for money, transparency, accountability and security without any Project Asset
Management Plans for individual projects?
No wonder the Devon County Council has put me on a lifetime email ban and no wonder they
declare all my freedom of information requests as vexatious because it might appear that they are hiding multi million pound fraud.
In the event they do not hold individual Project Asset Management Plans
their overall AMP are a worthless scrap of paper.
You need to withdraw your ostrich head from the sand and so do your shadow Government buddies riding the capital budget gravy train and wake up to
the fraud in the PFI & PPP…..
Wakey wakey Mr Bradshaw MP.
In the event the Devon County Council does not hold any Project Asset Management Plans they
are incapable of fiscal accountability or security.
Yours in disgust
Dransfield
Email sent – 23 February 2015 06:47
Dear Mr Bradshaw
In the event the Court of Appeal rule against me in the subject title, I intend to appeal to the Supreme Court or the ECHR and I am now preparing my skeleton argument.
As you are aware the Information Commissioner’s Office & Devon County Council legal argument is solely reliant on the context and history of my FOIA requests.
Please see the DCC list of their vexatious or manifestly unreasonable exemptions/refusals. This list contains 55 of my FOIA requests between 11/4/11/ and 7/3/12.
Each and every one of my FOIA requests in this letter is straightforward and benign and holds serious purpose and public interest. Not one single request from the attached list is either vexatious or manifestly unreasonable. On the contrary, they have been made in the interest of health and safety issues concerning the general public and in the interest of the public purse.
There is no doubt in my mind that it is the DCC and the ICO who have been vexatious not me.
I invite my MP to read each of my 55 FOIA requests and then advise me if you think my requests are either vexatious or manifestly unreasonable. I appreciate your view must be face value but as MP for Exeter, you do have first hand knowledge of a couple of items namely:
1. Millions of tonnes of contaminated cement were sold to the West Country in 2005 from Lafarge Cement Company. Both the DCC and the ICO claim it was a batch of contaminated cement, which is hogwash. It was a batch of cement all right which contained over a million tonnes of the stuff which the DCC and City Council turned a blind eye to.
2. St Peters NEW PFI school was provided with bottled water for 6/7 years because the drinking water was contaminated.
Would it be possible to book an appointment at your Friday night Surgery to discuss these FOIA requests please?
With thanks
Yours sincerely.
Alan M Dransfield
By the way, it is now approx 11/12 years since the contaminated cement was raised in the first instance by myself and I would envisage that we will now start to encounter serious structural failures/ collapses of Buildings and Structures which contains hundreds of tonnes of contaminated cement (including the 6 PFI schools), which will no doubt be further cost to the public purse. As a long standing MP of Exeter you have first hand knowledge of such dangers but have chosen to ignore them.
