Chris Allan

Date 01/06/09

Your Ref

Our Ref RM/1377

Enquiries to Richard Mutch

Extension 89441

Direct Line 0131-536-9441

Direct Fax 0131-536-9009

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Dear Mr Allan

Freedom of information - expenses

I write in response to your email request of 5 May for information in relation to all expenses claimed by the Chief Executive of NHS Lothian, Professor James Jack Barbour during 2008/09.

I have been provided with information to help answer your request be Ms Gaynor Thomson, Car Leasing and Expenses Manager - NHS Lothian.

EXPENSES PAID VIA PAYROLL - PROFESSOR JAMES BARBOUR - 2008/09
Expense	Amount
Business Mileage	£302.67
Car Parking	£10.00
Food	£21.80
Taxi Journeys	£39.00
Train Journeys	£365.30

I hope this information answers your request.

If you are unhappy with our response to your request, you do have the right to request us to review it. Your request should be made within 40 working days of receipt of this letter, and we will reply within 20 working days of receipt. If our decision is unchanged following a review and you remain dissatisfied with this, you then have the right to make a formal complaint to the Scottish Information Commissioner.

If you require a review of our decision to be carried out, please write to Mr I Whyte, FOI Reviewer at the address at the foot of this letter. The review will be undertaken by Mr Whyte as he was not involved in the original decision making process.

FOI responses (subject to redaction of personal information) may appear on NHS Lothian's Freedom of Information website at :- http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/your_rights/foi/foi_09.asp.

Yours sincerely

Alan Boyter

Director of Human Resources

and Organisational Development

Cc: Chief Executive

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Headquarters

Deaconess House 148 Pleasance Edinburgh EH8 9RS

Chair Dr Charles J Winstanley

Chief Executive Professor James Barbour O.B.E.

Lothian NHS Board is the common name of Lothian Health Board