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The Office of the Information Commissioner is still considering the complaint about the OGC Gateway Reviews of the Home Office Identity Cards Programme, after 6 months.

The Office of the Information Commissioner has emailed us, after we reminded them about our outstanding complaint (which has been with them for 6 months) regarding the Office for Government Commerce's decsion not to release their Gateway Reviews of the Home Office's Identity Cards Programme:

"As you will appreciate this is a particularly sensitive issue and will require very careful and considered attention before we are able to make a decision on this case."

The timeline so far:


"5th September 2005 via email

Dear Mr XXX,

Thank you for your e mail requesting an update on your FOI request.

I do appreciate it is some time since I updated you but I can advise
that I have been in contact with the OGC and have reviewed the
information in question.

As you will appreciate this is a particularly sensitive issue and will require very careful and considered attention before we are able to make a decision on this case. Whilst I do appreciate you are keen to learn of our decision as soon as possible, it is also important that our decisions are well thought through and that they will stand up to scrutiny in the event of an appeal by either party at the Information Tribunal.

I am therefore unable to provide you with a definitive timescale as to when you will receive our decision but I will ensure that I deal with your case as quickly as possible, bearing in mind the considerations I have mentioned above.

Yours sincerely,

AAA BBB

Complaints Resolution Officer"

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