FOI 29-24: Prospective substitutes nominated by Alex Easton MLA

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Our Ref: FOI 29-24

18 June 2024

Freedom of Information Act 2000

The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Assembly Commission) has processed your request dated 4 June 2024 under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). In your request, you asked:

“I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:

The names of prospective substitutes nominated by Alex Easton MLA to be returned in the member's place should his Assembly seat become vacant during the 2022-2027 mandate.

If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.”

Our response

The Assembly Commission does not hold this information.

Further information

The information that you require is more likely to be held by the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland (EONI). Under Article 6A of Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001 Mr Easton may provide a list of substitutes to the Chief Electoral Officer. You can send the Electoral Office this request by contacting info@eoni.org.uk.

You have the right to request an internal review of this decision by the Assembly Commission.  If you wish to request such a review, please write to me at the above address.  If, after that review, you are dissatisfied with the way in which the Assembly Commission has handled your request for information, you may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Your request for information and our response may be published in the disclosure log maintained by the Assembly Commission under a publication scheme agreed with the ICO. The request and our response will be anonymised. 

Yours sincerely

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