Our reference
RFI 1136
17 August 2009
Mr J Walker
Direct line
0844 798 6286
Sent via e-mail at:
Email
g-shipsey@audit-
[FOI #15270 email]
commission.gov.uk
Dear Mr Walker
Request for Information - RFI 1136
I write following my acknowledgement of your request on 30 July 2009.
Please find our response below:
1. The names and ranks/grades of all employees in your organisation who are Common
Purpose 'graduates'.
The names and job titles of the attendees and ‘graduates’ have been withheld due to Section
40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act, which states that personal information should be
withheld if its disclosure would breach any of the eight Data Protection Principles defined by the
Data Protection Act.
• The disclosure of this personal information would breach the First Data Protection Principle
because the individuals in question would not expect their personal information to be made
publicly available.
• Such a disclosure would therefore be unlawful, due to a breach of the confidentiality
expected between employee and employer, and unfair, as the individual does not expect
their personal information to be released. This would therefore be a breach of the first Data
Protection Principle, which states that personal information shall be processed fairly and
lawfully.
2. The total expenditure by your organisation on Common Purpose courses for each of
the years 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009
to date together with a copy of the invoice for each Common Purpose course paid for by
your organisation.
Please see below the payments made from the Audit Commission to Common Purpose:
Year
Gross
Net
1999-00^ £8,918.25
£7,590.00
Audit Commission, Westward House, Lime Kiln Close, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS34 8SR
T 0844 798 6757
F 0844 798 4100 www.audit-commission.gov.uk
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2000-01 £9,934.63
£8,455.00
2001-02 £10,633.75
£9,050.00
2002-03 £25,732.50
£21,900.00
2003-04 £14,605.25
£12,430.00
2004-05 £18,212.50
£15,500.00
2005-06 £26,731.25
£22,750.00
2006-07 £0.00
£0.00
2007-08 £0.00
£0.00
2008-09 £7,718.75
£6,625.00
2009-10*
Total
£122,486.88
£104,300.00
^ Information prior to September 1999 is no longer held in either electronic or hard copy format.
This is in compliance with our archiving policy and statutory obligations.
* No invoices have been processed to date for the current year.
Copies of the invoices
Please find attached invoices for the period Autumn 2004 to date. The course titles are listed on
the invoices.
Please note that prior to Autumn 2004, invoices were manually processed and authorised, and
are not held electronically. Should you wish us to consider extracting the pre-Autumn 2004
original hardcopy invoices from our archive, please contact me; an estimation of the time
required, and any potential charge to you, will then be calculated.
The names and job titles of the attendees and those who authorised the expenditure have been
withheld for the reasons outline in response to point 1 of your request above.
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If you are unhappy with this response, or the way your request has been handled, you can raise
a complaint under the Audit Commission's Access to Information Complaints Procedure, please
find via this link:
http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/legal/freedomofinformation/Pages/informationcomplaintsprocedure.aspx
Information supplied under the Freedom of Information Act and/or Environmental Information
Regulations will be subject to copyright protection under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
1988. Information can be re-used for the purposes of research for non-commercial purposes, for
private study, or for news reporting and reviews, without requiring formal consent. However, if
you wish to re-use the information for commercial purposes, including publishing, you are
required to seek the permission of the Audit Commission. Permission to re-use copyright
information is granted in the form of a licence.
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Yours sincerely
Gary Shipsey
Compliance Manager
Encs.
