12 April 2010
Mr Simon Harpin
Our Reference: FOI10-0016 RESP
[FOI #30434 email]
Dear Mr Harpin
I am writing to confirm that we hold information relevant to your request for information, made under
the terms of the Freedom of Information Act (the Act) which we received on 09 March, 2010. Your
request is replicated below together with our response, for ease of reference:
Your request: “I am seeking information on the total funding given by AWM to the National Council
for Graduate Entrepreneurship over the past 5 financial years. Can you please disclose total
funding given to the organisation each year, broken down into individual projects, initiatives and/or
events?
I also wish to establish any and all targets tied to any funding and whether these targets were met
by the NCGE. For each project/event can you also please disclose the target number of students /
graduates/individuals NCGE was to engage and the actual number engaged?
If possible, can you also please share any contracts, partnership documents and/or agreements
between AWM and NCGE?”
Our response:
NCGE have contracted/delivered two projects utilizing Agency funding within the past five years, as
below:
1. FY 2006/2007The International Entrepreneurship Educators Programme (IEEP)
Budget £4,000 claimed £4,000
2. FY2009/10:NCGE
Budget £70,000; claimed £70,000
Project Output profiles/actual as follows:
1. FY2006/07: International Entrepreneurship
2 places on the first IEEP course funded; both filled.
2. FY2009/10:
NCGE
Budget: 15 jobs created. Actual:15 jobs created.
Budget: 8 jobs safeguarded. Actual: 8 jobs safeguarded.
Please refer to the attached the Grant Funding Agreement template for your information. The
actual agreement has not been released as it contains commercially sensitive information and is
deemed to be exempt from disclosure under section 43 of the Act. We are obliged to carry out a
public interest test and in this instance have decided that we should withhold the detailed
information requested which could prejudice the commercial interests of the parties involved in the
agreement. There are no other partnership documents between the Agency and NCGE.
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me quoting the reference number above
and in any future communications.
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act (the Act) you have the right of complaint and I
have attached a copy of our complaints procedure for your information.
Further information about your rights under the Freedom of Information Act is available from the
Information Commissioner (Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF, telephone: 01625 545700, fax: 01625 524510).
Yours sincerely
Vera Giles
Corporate Information and Records Manager
Advantage West Midlands
3 Priestley Wharf Holt Street
Aston Science Park
Birmingham
B7 4BN
DDI: 0121 503 3217
Fax: 0121 380 3501
