Posted 07 September 2022 and since updated.

I recall asking the Cornwall NHS Trust in a Freedom of Information Request in 2015:

I would like to know, and in the public interest and for the record, how many times the Trust has failed to provide a Representative from the Health Authority on Cornwall Homechoice Welfare Priority Assessment Panels?

In its somewhat long winded reply it stated:

“The Trust does not hold this information in a reportable format. Collating this information would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ as defined in The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and fees) Regulation 2004 SI 2004 No 3244). Therefore under Section 12 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this is exempt as a public authority is not obliged to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.”

Possibly the longest “no” in the history of the NHS.

In reply I suggested 100s if not 1000s of Cornwall Homechoice Welfare Priority Assessment applicants had been deceived and cheated out of the Priority they should have received and to prove me wrong.

This came about because of evidence proving the NHS Trust and Cornwall Council rigged Cornwall Homechoice Welfare Priority Assessments that abused and discriminated against mentally ill and vulnerable applicants.