Dear Sir or Madam,

I refer you to
http://www.nexus.org.uk/wps/wcm/connect/....

This claims that, "the ban follows a detailed risk assessment by
health and safety staff, with the assistance of scooter user
organisations. The findings have been passed on to Her Majesty’s
Railway Inspectorate."

I do not see a link to this "detailed risk assessment" on the page.
Surely it should also be passed on to those who pay your wages?
Perhaps you have something to hide?

Please forward a copy of this "detailed risk assessment" in plain
text (or in this particular case Acrobat format will be acceptable)
so that I may consider it.

Please provide a link to this "detailed risk assessment" on your
web site so that those who pay your wages may consider it if they
wish.

Please note that "replies" which involve attachments in proprietary
file formats are not acceptable. A reply which is not in plain text
format will be deemed to be a refusal to answer.

Yours faithfully,

David Hansen

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your e-mail.

I shall contact the relevant Department in respect of the information
you have requested and will respond to your request in due course.

I am unaware as to whether or not the information you have requested
exists in an electronic format and that being the case I would be
grateful if you could provide me with an address for postal purposes
where any hard paper copy of the documentation can be sent.

Regards

Colin Whittle
Head of Legal Services

Nexus, Nexus House, St. James' Boulevard, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4AX
Tel. 0191 203 3239 / Fax. 0191 203 3304

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Dear Colin,

I find it extremely difficult to believe that this document was
created by dictaphone or hand written notes which were typed up on
a typewriter. It seems much more likely to me that it was created
using a word processor, even if some of the earlier stages did not
involve one and it seems likely it still exists on a word
processor.

Assuming that is the case it should simply be a matter of selecting
File|Save As from the menu and selecting a suitable file format.
Since this document may contain some complex information I have
indicated that Acrobat may be a suitable format if plain text is
not. A modern word processor will be able to save the file in this
format directly. It can then be sent to this web site, so that
anyone who wishes to see it may do so unlike copies on dead trees.

This is the 21st Century.

Yours sincerely,

David Hansen

Dear Colin,

I refer you to
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2000/ukp...

"Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a public authority must comply
with section 1(1) promptly and in any event not later than the
twentieth working day following the date of receipt."

Given that I asked for just one document it is clear that your
failure to provide it by now demonstrates you are already breaking
the law, the "promptly" bit.

I wonder if your criminal activities will be extended by breaking
the "twentieth working day" bit of the law too?

Yours sincerely,

David Hansen

Dear Sir,

I refer to your request and now enclose risk assessments as requested.

Regards
Colin Whittle
Head of Legal Services

Nexus, Nexus House, St. James' Boulevard, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4AX
Tel. 0191 203 3239 / Fax. 0191 203 3304

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Dear Colin,

I refer you to the end of my original enquiry:

"Please note that "replies" which involve attachments in
proprietary file formats are not acceptable. A reply which is not
in plain text format will be deemed to be a refusal to answer."

Your reply appears to contain attachments in a proprietary file
format, presumably Word (as this is what officials tend to assume
everyone wants to and can open).

If the attachments are too complicated to be rendered in plain text
then you should have contacted me to agree a format. RTF or perhaps
Acrobat would be suitable, both can be produced very easily via the
File menu of well written word processors.

Yours sincerely,

David Hansen