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Dear Christopher,

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, as detailed in your email below. Your request was
received on 8th August, 2011. We will deal with your request as
promptly as possible, and at the latest within 20 working days. If you
have any queries about your request, please contact us at the address
below.

The reference number for your request is RFI20110982.

Kind regards,

The Information Policy & Compliance Team
BBC Freedom of Information
Room 2252, BBC White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS
www.bbc.co.uk/foi
Email: [BBC request email]
Tel: 020 8008 2882
Fax: 020 8008 2398

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Dear Mr Newby,
Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to your request
made under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We are endeavouring to provide a response as soon as possible. If we have
been unable to send a response by Monday 12th September, we will write
again to update you on the progress of your request.

Kind regards

BBC Information Policy and Compliance

BBC Freedom of Information
Room 2252, White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS, UK

Website: [1]www.bbc.co.uk/foi
Email: [2][BBC request email]
Tel: 020 8008 2883
Fax: 020 8008 2398

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Dear Mr Newby,

Please accept our apologies for the further delay in responding to your
request.

The main reason for the delay in responding to your request was the fact
that the request required input from several divisions, and one member
of staff who needed to provide information went on leave just before
they were contacted for information.

We do now have a draft response to your request but we are in the
process of checking that the correct information has been provided.

We hope to be in a position to respond by close of play tomorrow.

Kind regards

Louise Wright
BBC Information Policy and Compliance
Room 2252
White City
201 Wood Lane
London
W12 7TS

Website: www.bbc.co.uk/foi
Email: [BBC request email]
Tel: 020 8008 2883
Fax: 020 8008 2398

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Dear Mr Newby,

Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20110982.

We have not met the 20 working day deadline for this response and we would
like to offer our apologies for this delay.

<<RFI20110982 - final response.pdf>>

Kind regards

Louise Wright
Information Policy and Compliance    

BBC Freedom of Information
Room 2252, White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS, UK

Website: [1]www.bbc.co.uk/foi
Email: [2][BBC request email]
Tel: 020 8008 2883
Fax: 020 8008 2398

 
[3]http://www.bbc.co.uk
This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal
views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated.
If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system.
Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in
reliance on it and notify the sender immediately.
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Dear Mr Newby,

The requirement for input from more than one department was the main
reason for the delay in responding to your request, but not the only
reason. Part of the delay was also due to the fact the member of staff
from News who needed to provide information to the BBC's HR department
(to allow them to progress the request) was on leave when the request
for assistance was sent to them and then I (as the member of staff in
the FOI Team overseeing the request) was also on leave for part of that
time therefore unable to assist with progressing the request via
alternate contacts. Ordinarily responses are provided in advance of the
deadline without the need for the FOI team to intervene but in this
instance the combination of circumstances meant that involvement by this
department would have assisted in progressing the request.

Although ultimately the only information we provided to you was a link
to the published information on the BBC website about senior managers in
News, we still needed to locate information in the first instance to
identify who the most highly paid individuals were, whether they were
staff or talent, and whether information about them might already be
published (for example exact salary information about the top 107 most
senior/influential managers in the BBC is published but we would not
know if the individuals you were interested in fell into that list
without information from other departments). Therefore although the
information was not provided to you - for the reasons explained in our
response letter - time was incurred locating the information.

If you still wish us to conduct a internal review into the time taken to
respond to your request please confirm by return and we will be happy to
arrange this.

Kind regards

Louise Wright
BBC Information Policy and Compliance
Room 2252
White City
201 Wood Lane
London
W12 7TS

Website: www.bbc.co.uk/foi
Email: [BBC request email]
Tel: 020 8008 2883
Fax: 020 8008 2398

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