Annual Report 1999 Text Version

Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1

Introduction

Chapter 2 - The Year's Work

Usage of the Freedom of Information Act

Applications for Review to my Office

Outcomes of Reviews

Appeals to the High Court

Time Taken to Complete Reviews

New Bodies within Remit / Study of section 15 and 16 Manuals

New Regulations / Promoting Public Awareness of my Office and the Act / Report to the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service

Chapter 3

Some Lessons Learned

Processing of requests by public bodies

Public Bodies and the conduct of reviews

Role of the Information Commissioner

Decisions of the Information Commissioner

Chapter 4

General Issues arising from specific reviews - Personal Privacy

General Issues arising from specific reviews -Commercially Sensitive Information

General Issues arising from specific reviews -Abuses of the Act

Chapter 5 - Selected Settlements

Selected Settlements

Chapter 6 - Decisions

Summaries of Decisions

Chapter 7 - Statistics

Table 1 FOI REQUESTS DEALT WITH BY PUBLIC BODIES

Table 2 TYPE OF FOI REQUEST RECEIVED

Table 3 FOI REQUESTS RECEIVED - ANALYSED BY REQUESTER TYPE

Table 4 FOI REQUESTS RECEIVED BY CIVIL SERVICE - ANALYSED BY PUBLIC BODY

Table 5 FOI REQUESTS RECEIVED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES

Table 6 FOI REQUESTS RECEIVED BY HEALTH BOARDS

TABLE 7 FOI REQUESTS RECEIVED BY VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS, MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND OTHER BODIES

Table 8 APPLICATIONS FOR REVIEW - ANALYSED BY PUBLIC BODY

TABLE 9 APPLICATIONS RECEIVED

TABLE 10 OVERVIEW OF 1999 REVIEWS

TABLE 11 OUTCOME OF REVIEWS COMPLETED 1998 and 1999

Table 12 SUBJECT MATTER OF REVIEW 1998 AND 1999

TABLE 13 TYPE OF REVIEW OF REQUESTS FOR RECORDS