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Mr Nick Henderson Our ref: 10461

request-3518-c3180756

@whatdotheyknow.com Your ref:

Date: 20 November 2008

Dear Mr Henderson,

Thank you for your email of 24 October 2008 clarifying your earlier request of 13 October 2008, in which you asked about the total financial package that the Chief Executive of the Border Agency receives per year. Your request has been handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We believe that the information that you have asked for is already reasonably accessible to you. It can be accessed by logging on to the Home Office website, www.homeoffice.gov.uk and viewing the Home Office Resource Accounts for 2007-08, which are available at the link below:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/resource-accounts-07-08?view=Binary

The information you have requested is on Page 27 of the accounts.

Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act exempts the Home Office from complying with the duty to supply you with this information on the grounds that it is already in the public domain. Should you have difficulties in accessing this information by the means listed above please do not hesitate to contact me again.

If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting your complaint within two months to the address below quoting reference 10461.

Information Rights Team
Information and Record Management Service
Home Office
4th Floor, Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Email: [email address]

During the independent review the department's handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response.

Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you will have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours sincerely,

Duncan Dunsmore-Rouse

Human Resources