FOI 53-22: Websites that MLAs have accessed on devices within the internal network in the past 12 months

Information Standards Freedom of Information Response

Our Ref: FOI 53-22

25 October 2022

Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“FOIA”)

I am writing to confirm that the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Assembly Commission) has processed your request dated 28 September 2022 in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In your request, you asked:

“In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, I wish to request access to the following records that I believe to be held by your organisation:

The names and addresses of websites that MLAs have accessed on devices within the internal network in the past 12 months.”

The Assembly Commission does not hold this information in the form requested.

Statistics are only available for those websites that were accessed from IT equipment connected to the Assembly Commission’s wired network and cannot be differentiated by user group.

You have the right to request a formal review by the Assembly Commission and if you wish to do so, please write to me at the above address. If after such an internal review you are still unhappy with the response, you may appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF which will undertake an independent review.

The Assembly Commission may publish details of your FOI request and its official response within the organisational disclosure log. The request will be completely anonymised and you will not be identified in any way. This is to meet the requirements as laid out by in the agreed publication scheme with the Information Commissioners’ Office.

Yours sincerely

INFORMATION STANDARDS