FoI: Please wait until August

Last month I blogged about my freedom of information request which the government were refusing to answer until today which meant I was waiting 8 month for some simple information.

Let’s go back to what I requested:

‘How much is spent on digital TV (Sky, Freeview, NTL etc), and games consoles (Xbox, Playstation and games etc) between January 2002- October 2006’.

This was concerning my local prison (which isn’t actually so local). They got back to me again today and said:

As we previously explained, we are considering your information request under the exemption contained within Section 43.

In order to consider the public interest fully we extended our response date to 5^th June but I much regret to say this has not been possible. We now aim to respond by 6^th August.

There ya go. I have to wait another month which will take me up to 9 months when we get to August 6^th and all I want I to know is how much my local prison spends on computer games and digital TV.

I don’t want to wait 9 months but I don’t think I have a choice. I am considering sending them another request for information asking what advice they have had on this request.