December 2025 Highlight Report
Monthly Highlight Report — December 2025
Reconstructed report, backdated to month-end: see the backdating rule and carry-forward discipline.
| Measure | Recorded value |
|---|---|
| Reporting period | December 2025 |
| Recorded FOI / EIR / records-access activity | 1 event entries |
| Primary control state | Evidence recovery and verification |
| Project stage | Rolling programme — evidence, title, heritage, accountability, narrative and museum preparation |
1. Plan — month ahead
From November’s initiation baseline, formalise the records-access programme; identify which requests require FOI/EIR treatment; establish organisation-specific custodians; begin court and title record recovery.
2. Performance — end of month
The Vale referral (see table) established the first explicit FOI handling path in the management chronology and showed that routing between operational and information-governance teams would itself need tracking.
3. Issues, Risks, Concerns
Routing risk emerged immediately: a request can move between teams without the substantive search question changing. The programme therefore needs to preserve the original wording, the request number, hand-off date and next accountable action.
FOI / records-access timestamps
| Date / time | Matter | Control significance |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Dec 2025 | Vale of Glamorgan — FOI unit | Request about BP v Buckler records referred to Information Governance |
4. Plan Moving Forward / Next Month
In January, launch or formalise Cadw and HMLR records work; preserve all bounced or redirected addresses as evidence; create case IDs and response-deadline fields; begin a central FOI/EIR ledger linked to evidence records.