Hello, I have clearly asked for locations in Greater Manchester – a defined county. Whether you decide to give me data for the whole of the North West in order to fulfil the request in the timelines as required by statute is up to you, but I find it astonishing that you would think it acceptable to wait until the day before the request is due for response to raise this issue.
As far as I am aware, no provision of the EIR allows refusal to provide information in a geographical area just because your organisation usually stores that information in differently defined regions.
I disagree that my request has been made in too general a manner – indeed, the fact you’ve been able to address individual parts of my request would indicate your organisation understands exactly what I am requesting. You have identified Greater Manchester is in the north west region, so you know where this is.
The regulations state responses and refusals should be provided ‘as soon as possible, and no later than 20 working days after the date of receipt of the request’.
In answer to your further clarifications, please interpret the definitions as widely as reasonably possible, to include all examples you have given. ‘Any other relevant information’ is an optional field.
