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Institutions ranked on how they answered requests for the Great House Farm record. All start at 500 of 1000. Cleared at 900. Tap a name for every point and its source.

0 of 15 clearedScored 21 Oct 2026⏰ late · 🗑️ not held · 🔥 lost · 💲 cost/fee · 🔁 repeat refusal · ⚠️ partial · 💣 contradiction · 🚧 diverted · 📭 no reply · 🔒 exemption · 🌀 asked again · 🫶🤝✌️ 10/10 reply

  1. 1National Library of Wales510/1000Under review
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    Started at 500. Points added +10; points deducted 0. 1 dated item.

    Every point change

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    • within deadlineFollow-up, 10 Oct 2026: Whether any further Bute Estate or related material remains. Due 6 Nov 2026. email
    • within deadlineLibAnswers enquiry: 1870–1880 Bute searches; D153/4–8 and D219; the 1938 conveyance; searches made. Due 16 Nov 2026. email
  2. 2Heneb (formerly GGAT)500/1000Under review🗑️🚧
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    Started at 500. Points added +65; points deducted −65. 5 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 22 May 2026−25🚧 “Heneb is not subject to FOI requests as we are a Limited company.” The Environmental Information Regulations were not addressed (on 6 Oct: EIR applicability “a matter of legal determination”).Handled under the wrong regime, or the applicable law not accepted · email · wayback
    • 6 Oct 2026+20✔️ HER source file GGAT02038s: replied 6 Oct 2026, deadline 6 Oct 2026.Replied within the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 14 Oct 2026+25🎁 HER source file digitised and published to Archwilio 02038s, including Suggett 1988.Records released or published without being forced to · email · wayback
    • 16 Oct 2026+20✔️ Schedule GHF/HENEB/2026-09-20: replied 16 Oct 2026, deadline 16 Oct 2026.Replied within the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 16 Oct 2026−40🗑️ Point-by-point reply to the schedule: of 77 questions logged with Heneb, 39 answered “not held” (question ledger, 19 Oct 2026); no destruction record or search log given."Not held" with no destruction record and no search described · email · wayback
  3. 3RCAHMW500/1000Under review💲×3
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    Started at 500. Points added +30; points deducted −30. 6 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 26 Nov 2025−10💲 Quoted £20 per scan for microfiche material.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback
    • 28 May 2026−10💲 Quoted £20 per scan for microfiche material.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback
    • 10 Jun 2026−10💲 Searches are charged for; price list attached.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback
    • 6 Oct 2026+20✔️ RC26-0375 (four requests): replied 6 Oct 2026, deadline 16 Oct 2026.Replied within the statutory period · RC26-0375 (four requests)
    • 6 Oct 2026+5🆓 Aerial photography searches chargeable, but fees waived for fewer than five scans.Fee waived · email
    • 13 Oct 2026+5🆓 Fees waived because the order is under five research-quality scans.Fee waived · email
  4. 4Cadw480/1000Quarantine🔥🔁
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    Started at 500. Points added +80; points deducted −100. 7 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 11 Jun 2026+20✔️ ATISN 27021: replied 11 Jun 2026, deadline 30 Jun 2026.Replied within the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 11 Jun 2026+10⚡ ATISN 27021: replied in 7 working days of 20.Replied within half the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 11 Jun 2026−50🔥 ATISN 27021: the 1988 listing assessment found the farmhouse “did not meet the listing criteria”; only two photographs survive. No assessment report, reasons, site notes or destruction record produced.Records said to be destroyed, lost or not surviving, with no destruction record produced · email · wayback
    • 2 Jul 2026+20✔️ Review of ATISN 27021: replied 2 Jul 2026, deadline 13 Jul 2026.Replied within the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 27 Aug 2026+10✉️ Chief Inspector's letter answering the record-correction report of 9/10 Aug 2026 (further letter 4 Sep).Substantive written answer where no statutory clock applies · email · wayback
    • 19 Oct 2026+20✔️ ATISN 27589: replied 19 Oct 2026, deadline 26 Oct 2026.Replied within the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 19 Oct 2026−50🔁 ATISN 27589 refused under FOIA s.14(2) as “substantially similar” to 27021, although point 3 (July–December 1988 papers) was not part of 27021.Refused as a repeated request (FOIA s.14(2)) · email · wayback · EV-0245

    Clocks still running

    • within deadlineATISN 26-0009: Inventory, closure note, transfer list, disposal authority and destruction record for the 1988 file. Due 6 Nov 2026.
    • within deadlineInternal review of 27589: Reconsider under the EIR; point 3 was not in 27021. Due 16 Nov 2026. email
  5. 5Welsh Government480/1000Quarantine🔥
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    Started at 500. Points added +30; points deducted −50. 3 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 19 Oct 2026+20✔️ ATISN 26-0010: replied 19 Oct 2026, deadline 6 Nov 2026.Replied within the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 19 Oct 2026+10⚡ ATISN 26-0010: replied in 6 working days of 20.Replied within half the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 19 Oct 2026−50🔥 ATISN 26-0010: no files found; routine records “would have been destroyed in line with the corporate retention schedule applied at the time”, or disposed of by a predecessor body. No schedule, series, date or destruction record identified.Records said to be destroyed, lost or not surviving, with no destruction record produced · email · wayback · EV-0244

    Clocks still running

    • within deadlineInternal review of 26-0010: Review of the not-held answer. Due 16 Nov 2026. email
  6. 6Glamorgan Archives460/1000Quarantine💲×5
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    Started at 500. Points added +10; points deducted −50. 8 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 6 Feb 2026−10💲 Digital copies £15.60 for the first image, £4.80 each after, payable in advance.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email
    • 18 Feb 2026−10💲 Said it has an income target and cannot provide free copies.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email
    • 15 Jun 2026−10💲 Sending the page digitally would incur fees (scanned image fee £3.40 + VAT); invoice offered.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback
    • 24 Aug 2026−10💲 Research on our behalf: £60 (incl. VAT) for up to an hour, payable in advance.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback
    • 7 Sep 2026+10🧭 Catalogue answer: rate-book images identified (ACA/8/2, 53 images).Free, helpful answer on where a record is held · email · wayback
    • 7 Sep 2026−10💲 Copying charges: £15.60 single image, £4.80 each further image, £60 an hour (e.g. £60 for 53 images of ACA/8/2).Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback
    • 14 Sep 20260💲 Digital copy offered at £15.60 (incl. VAT). (cap reached (max -50 per institution))Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · Enquiry
    • 24 Sep 20260💲 Staff search offered at £50, including copies of relevant entries. (cap reached (max -50 per institution))Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback

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    • within deadlineLocation-only request: Where parish, vestry and tithe records for Great House / Tŷ Mawr are held. Due 6 Nov 2026. email
    • within deadline‘County Treasures’ inventory: Original late-1970s South Glamorgan inventory entry for the farm. Due 16 Nov 2026. email
  7. 7South Wales Police450/1000Quarantine🗑️🌀×2
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    Started at 500. Points added +10; points deducted −60. 4 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 16 Jul 2026−40🗑️ FOI 719/26: “hold no information” on the 1988 enforcement; searches made and retention schedule not described."Not held" with no destruction record and no search described · EV-0159
    • 29 Sep 2026+10✉️ FOI 1040/26 answered by attachment.Substantive written answer where no statutory clock applies · FOI 1040/26
    • 30 Sep 2026−10🌀 Before searching, asked for more information on the 20 Aug request about two deaths, although the full request (names, dates, registration reference) had been sent to the same FOI mailbox on 20 Aug (clarification ledger SWP-1).Asked us to clarify something the record had already answered · SWP-1
    • 13 Oct 2026−10🌀 FOI 1264/26: asked who was involved at Tŷ Mawr in Nov–Dec 1988, although the names and search terms were already in the same FOI mailbox (7 Jun, 20 Aug, 27 Sep) (clarification ledger SWP-2).Asked us to clarify something the record had already answered · email · wayback

    Clocks still running

    • within deadlineInternal review 1188/26 of 719/26: Review of the “hold no information” answer (sent Sun 27 Sep, counted from Mon 28 Sep). Due 23 Oct 2026. email
    • within deadlineSubject access request: Personal data on the 1988 eviction and request handling. Due 29 Oct 2026.
    • within deadlineFOI 1264/26: Non-personal operational records, Nov–Dec 1988 (logged 12 Oct). Due 9 Nov 2026. email
  8. 8Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales445/1000Quarantine⚠️🗑️🌀×2
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    Started at 500. Points added +20; points deducted −75. 6 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 25 Aug 2026−15⚠️ FOI 2026-024: other discoveries at Great House Farm and Church Farm treated as not in scope; the review gave no written basis.Partial: part of what was asked still outstanding after the reply · email · wayback
    • 22 Sep 2026+10✉️ FOI 2026-032: records disclosed.Substantive written answer where no statutory clock applies · email · wayback
    • 5 Oct 2026+10✉️ FOI 2026-036: further records added, incl. Ref 13.2 (a waterwheel) and a page of MS 3360/3.Substantive written answer where no statutory clock applies · email · wayback
    • 12 Oct 2026−40🗑️ Item 7: no search log, file note or other document of the “not in scope” assessment is held; “No records remain withheld.”"Not held" with no destruction record and no search described · email · wayback
    • 20 Oct 2026−10🌀 Asked which “Great House Farm” was meant, although the request named Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr, Llandough-juxta-Penarth (clarification ledger AMG-1).Asked us to clarify something the record had already answered · email · wayback
    • 20 Oct 2026−10🌀 Asked whether all matching medieval ironwork records were wanted, although point 2 of the request set out the search terms and asked for “any matches” (clarification ledger AMG-2; the ledger notes a scope check on volume can be legitimate).Asked us to clarify something the record had already answered · email · wayback

    Clocks still running

    • clock pausedFollow-up (c.1880 ironwork): Records on ironwork found under the rear wing c.1880 (the museum asked a clarification on 20 Oct; clock paused until our reply). Due 16 Nov 2026. email
  9. 9The National Archives445/1000Quarantine⏰💲×5🌀
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    Started at 500. Points added +50; points deducted −105. 11 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 6 Feb 2026−10💲 Pointed to its paid search options for research done on our behalf.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email
    • 8 Feb 2026+10✉️ CAS-313954-Y6C0H3: Records Enquiries answered on records relating to the case.Substantive written answer where no statutory clock applies · email · wayback
    • 12 Aug 2026−10💲 Pointed to its paid search options for research done on our behalf.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback
    • 20 Aug 2026−10🌀 Asked whether a follow-up was clarification of FOI CAS-347296 or a separate research enquiry, although the email named its own research case (clarification ledger TNA-1; 13 days lost).Asked us to clarify something the record had already answered · email · wayback
    • 23 Sep 2026−10💲 Would not research the collections without charging fees (paid search; FOIA s.9).Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback
    • 30 Sep 2026−45⏰ WhatDoTheyKnow FOI, 2 Sep 2026: no reply; deadline 30 Sep 2026; 15 working days overdue at 21 Oct 2026.Overdue: per working day past the statutory deadline (max −150 per request) · WhatDoTheyKnow FOI, 2 Sep 2026
    • 12 Oct 2026+20✔️ Location-only FOI, 10 Oct 2026: replied 12 Oct 2026, deadline 6 Nov 2026.Replied within the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 12 Oct 2026+10⚡ Location-only FOI, 10 Oct 2026: replied in 1 working day of 20.Replied within half the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 12 Oct 2026+10🧭 1910 Valuation Office map for OS Glamorgan XLVII.6 identified (IR 131/4/96).Free, helpful answer on where a record is held · email · wayback
    • 12 Oct 2026−10💲 Access offered by visit, paid staff search or independent researcher (FOIA s.9 fees).Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback
    • 14 Oct 2026−10💲 CAS-359317-Q8Q4R9: pointed to its paid search options for research done on our behalf.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback

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    • within deadlineCAS-347296-M0V4Y1 internal review: Review of the 23 Sep disclosure. Due 4 Nov 2026. email
    • within deadlineFollow-up, 19 Oct 2026: IR 58 entries for the HMLR titles; records of the 1986–87 proceedings; BT 31 reference. Due 16 Nov 2026. email
  10. 10BP400/1000Quarantine📭×3🔒
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    Started at 500. Points added +10; points deducted −110. 5 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 25 Feb 2026−30📭 Letter to group legal, 28 Jan 2026: Records and a litigation hold. No reply by 25 Feb 2026 (20 working days).Letter or preservation notice with no reply after 20 working days · email · wayback
    • 8 Jun 2026−30📭 Letter to group legal, 9 May 2026: Records and a litigation hold. No reply by 8 Jun 2026 (20 working days).Letter or preservation notice with no reply after 20 working days · email · wayback
    • 3 Jul 2026−30📭 Letter to group legal, 7 Jun 2026: Records and a litigation hold. No reply by 3 Jul 2026 (20 working days).Letter or preservation notice with no reply after 20 working days · email · wayback
    • 25 Aug 2026+10✉️ BP Archive: holds material to the end of 1954; no pre-1955 documents on the property.Substantive written answer where no statutory clock applies · email · wayback
    • 25 Aug 2026−20🔒 BP Archive: material after 1954 (the period in issue, 1969–1993) is not open externally; its custodian not named.Withheld under an exemption or closed to access · email · wayback

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    • openPreservation notice, 28 Sep 2026: Do not destroy records on the farm, the 1982–83 registrations and the 1987 case. Due 26 Oct 2026. email
    • openPreservation notice, 16 Oct 2026: Do not destroy records on the farm, the 1982–83 registrations and the 1987 case. Due 13 Nov 2026. email
    • openRecords enquiry, 19 Oct 2026: Custodian of BP Properties / BP Pension Trust records 1969–1993. Due 16 Nov 2026.
  11. 11HM Land Registry395/1000Quarantine🗑️💲×3🌀🚧💣
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    Started at 500. Points added +30; points deducted −135. 10 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 13 Feb 2026+10✉️ Customer Support and the Wales Office answered whether the 1982–83 first registrations contain a mistake (letter WA231076/A/216/LG, after referral to a senior officer).Substantive written answer where no statutory clock applies · email · wayback
    • 12 Mar 2026−10💲 Automatic reply: register information is accessible only on payment, so refused under FOIA s.21.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback
    • 12 Mar 2026−10🌀 Asked for the title number, which HMLR's own 6 Feb email about the same property already carried (clarification ledger HMLR-1; 24 days lost).Asked us to clarify something the record had already answered · email · wayback
    • 23 Mar 2026+10✉️ Letter WA231076/A/216: “No evidence of a mistake in the register”; dates of both applications given.Substantive written answer where no statutory clock applies · email · wayback · EV-0147
    • 13 Apr 2026+10✉️ FOI F260213 response issued on the records of the first registrations.Substantive written answer where no statutory clock applies · EV-0148
    • 30 Jul 2026−40🗑️ Schedule of surviving first-registration files: the 31 Dec 1969 conveyance recited in both root deeds, and the 1971 abstract of title lodged in 1982–83, are not listed; no record of their disposal given."Not held" with no destruction record and no search described · email · wayback
    • 30 Jul 2026−10💲 Copies of the surviving file offered at £11 each, on paper form OC2, by post and cheque only.Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · email · wayback
    • 27 Sep 2026−10💲 Automatic reply again: register information accessible only on payment (FOIA s.21).Fee demanded for access (each quote; max −50 per institution) · FOI mailbox
    • 10 Oct 2026−40💣 23 Mar 2026: “no evidence of a mistake in the register”. 10 Oct 2026: an internal application opened “to investigate and correct any error that may have been made”. The two positions are not reconciled in writing.The body's own statements disagree, not reconciled in writing · email · wayback
    • 10 Oct 2026−15🚧 Enquiry 260917-6718215: answered “already been raised”; one mailbox replied that the address is no longer supported and no action would be taken.Dead-end mailbox: automated "no longer supported", no action taken · email · wayback

    Clocks still running

    • within deadlineSAR D260928: Subject access request on files WA231076 / WA240304 (acknowledged 1 Oct). Due 28 Oct 2026. email
    • within deadlineEIR (D260928 thread): EIR request for first-registration and amalgamation documents. Due 17 Nov 2026. email
  12. 12Llandough Community Council385/1000Quarantine💲🚧💣📭🔒
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    Started at 500. Points added +50; points deducted −165. 8 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 14 Jun 2026+20✔️ FOI, 18 May 2026: replied 14 Jun 2026, deadline 16 Jun 2026.Replied within the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 14 Jun 2026−20🔒 FOI of 18 May answered under s.21: minutes from 1982 deposited at Glamorgan Archives in 2002.Withheld under an exemption or closed to access · email · wayback
    • 10 Jul 2026−30📭 Follow-up, 14 Jun 2026: Same-day follow-up to the 14 Jun answer. No reply by 10 Jul 2026 (20 working days).Letter or preservation notice with no reply after 20 working days · email · wayback
    • 20 Sep 2026−25🚧 Chair: “We have nothing more to add” — the question asked (whether post-2002 records, photographs or 1982 transfer records are held) was not answered.Reply did not answer the question asked, or diverted it elsewhere · email · wayback
    • 11 Oct 2026+20✔️ Request restated, 21 Sep 2026: replied 11 Oct 2026, deadline 19 Oct 2026.Replied within the statutory period · email · wayback
    • 11 Oct 2026−50💲 Clerk refused under FOIA s.12 (cost over the £450 limit); a narrower window offered.Refused on cost (FOIA s.12) · email · wayback
    • 11 Oct 2026−40💣 The s.12 letter states “about 20 minutes to read” and “about 10 minutes to assess” each of 224 sets, and a total of “over 2240 minutes”. The stated rates give 6,720 minutes (112 hours), not about 37 hours.The body's own statements disagree, not reconciled in writing · email · wayback
    • 20 Oct 2026+10✉️ Answered the objection to the 22 Oct meeting becoming remote-only: the published agenda specifies a remote meeting.Substantive written answer where no statutory clock applies · email · wayback

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    • within deadlineEIR (VG 41 / verge / 89/01396/OUT): Works to the green and verge 1970–1995. Due 9 Nov 2026.
    • within deadlineInternal review of the s.12 refusal: Review of the cost estimate. Due 10 Nov 2026.
    • within deadlineSubject access request: Personal data held. Due 11 Nov 2026.
    • within deadlineNarrowed FOI: Narrower request without a minutes search. Due 17 Nov 2026.
  13. 13Vale of Glamorgan Council372/1000Quarantine⏰×2⚠️×2
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    Started at 500. Points added +10; points deducted −138. 5 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 2 Sep 2026−105⏰ 00210772 internal review: no reply; deadline 2 Sep 2026; 35 working days overdue at 21 Oct 2026.Overdue: per working day past the statutory deadline (max −150 per request) · email · wayback
    • 14 Sep 2026+10✉️ 00211027: the 11 Jun 1965 conveyance and the 1965 contract for the school site released.Substantive written answer where no statutory clock applies · email · wayback · EV-0042, EV-0216
    • 14 Sep 2026−15⚠️ 00211027 answered in part: deeds held for the school site not all supplied.Partial: part of what was asked still outstanding after the reply · email · wayback
    • 10 Oct 2026−15⚠️ Planning appendices C, D and E still not supplied while other parts of the same redevelopment file were released (chased 10 Oct).Partial: part of what was asked still outstanding after the reply · email · wayback
    • 20 Oct 2026−3⏰ WDTK 2020 01590 HYB internal review: no reply; deadline 20 Oct 2026; 1 working day overdue at 21 Oct 2026.Overdue: per working day past the statutory deadline (max −150 per request) · WDTK 2020 01590 HYB internal review

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    • within deadline00211557: Section 52 and land charges, planning register, EIA screening, conditions 16–18, 92/00671/RES (acknowledged 30 Sep). Due 26 Oct 2026. email
  14. 14Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water348/1000Quarantine⏰🗑️🚧
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    Started at 500. Points added 0; points deducted −152. 3 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 13 Aug 2026−87⏰ EIR, 7 Jun 2026: replied 13 Aug 2026, 29 working days after the 3 Jul 2026 deadline.Overdue: per working day past the statutory deadline (max −150 per request) · EIR, 7 Jun 2026
    • 13 Aug 2026−40🗑️ First answer (data-subject-rights team): no records; searches made and whether pre-1989 predecessor records were included not described."Not held" with no destruction record and no search described · EIR 7 Jun
    • 3 Sep 2026−25🚧 The review was handled by Customer Care as an enquiry about the 1988 supply, not as an EIR review (mail ref 92994223/01).Handled under the wrong regime, or the applicable law not accepted · email · wayback
  15. 15Ministry of Justice / HMCTS240/1000Quarantine⏰×2🔥
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    Started at 500. Points added 0; points deducted −260. 3 dated items.

    Every point change

    • 17 Jul 2026−150⏰ WhatDoTheyKnow FOI “BP vs Buckler 1987”: internal review: no reply; deadline 17 Jul 2026; 67 working days overdue at 21 Oct 2026.Overdue: per working day past the statutory deadline (max −150 per request) · WhatDoTheyKnow FOI “BP vs Buckler 1987”: internal review
    • 4 Aug 2026−50🔥 Cardiff County Court: no records of the 1955–1988 proceedings held “because of the case's age”; no destruction schedule stated, nor whether index books, warrant registers or bailiff returns survive.Records said to be destroyed, lost or not surviving, with no destruction record produced · email · wayback
    • 9 Oct 2026−60⏰ FOI 260813002 internal review: replied 9 Oct 2026, 20 working days after the 11 Sep 2026 deadline. (to confirm)Overdue: per working day past the statutory deadline (max −150 per request) · FOI 260813002 internal review

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