BSCC-FOI-0523-JM: correspondence between the Commissioner and the Forensic Science Regulator
Updated 10 January 2024
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Yohannes Lowe
By email to: yohanneslowe73@gmail.com
30 March 2023
Re: Freedom of Information Request BSCC-FOI-0523-JM
Dear Yohannes,
I write in response to an email received from you to our office on 20 March 2023 in which you ask for a copy of all external correspondence and communications between the Commissioner and the Forensic Science Regulator that mention, or refer to, ‘sampling errors’, ‘sample bags’ and/or ‘coloured seals’, since 1 December 2022 to the present day.
Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I am a regulator, independent of, but appointed by government. My office is a team of Home Office staff who make use of Home Office systems. I therefore do not hold the information you have requested, and you may wish to consider a separate request to be made to the Home Office under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act should you still require the information you have asked for.
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to the address below, quoting reference BSCC-FOI-0523-JM. If you ask for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.
Mark Greenhorn
14th Floor Lunar House Building
40 Wellesley Road
Croydon
CR9 2BY
Email: Sciencesupportfoi@homeoffice.gov.uk
As part of any internal review, our handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Fraser Sampson
Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner