Dear

Mr Barry Hutton

By e-mail only: [FOI #44795 email]

Date: 4 November 2010

Dear Mr Hutton,

Re: - Request for Information - Common Purpose - Reference Number: CXP/88EHK6

Thank you for your request for information, which was received by Manchester City Council on 16 August 2010 and has been considered under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA).

I apologise again for the delay in responding to your request.

You asked for the following information:

Please disclose actual invoices received from Common Purpose during the last two years.
Please disclose E-Mails and letters between Sharon Kemp and Common Purpose from April 2010.

In response to Part 1 of your request, I can confirm that the Council holds 9 invoices that were received from Common Purpose during the period from 16 August 2008 to 16 August 2010. As you may be aware, FoIA provides of right of access to information, not necessarily documentation, and as you have not requested the names of attendees (which is personal information about a third party and may in any event be exempt from disclosure to the world at large under FoIA on the grounds of the exemption at Section 40(2) of FoIA), I have summarised the non-exempt information contained in the invoices in the following table.

Date of Invoice	Description	Cost
29/10/2008	Fee for [X] to attend Common Purpose Greater Manchester TheKNOW 2008	£4,500 + £787.50 VAT Total £5,287.50
21/11/2008	Fee for [X] to attend Common Purpose Greater Manchester TheKNOW 2008 Programme	£4,500 + £787.50 VAT Total £5,287.50
05/12/2008	Fee for [X] to attend Common Purpose TheKNOW 2008/2009	£4,500 + £675 VAT Total £5,175
20/10/2009	Full fee for [X] to attend Common Purpose Greater Manchester Meridian Programme 2009/2010	£4,500 + £675 VAT Total £5,175
27/10/2009	Full fee for [X] and [X] to attend Common Purpose Greater Manchester Meridian programme 2009/2010	£9,000 + £1,350 VAT Total £10,350
11/03/2010	Common Purpose Climate Resilience workshop 7 April 2010 Provision of design/Preparation/and Facilitation of workshop including administration, coordination + all travel, venue, catering and accommodation costs	£850
30/03/2010	Fee for [X] to attend Common Purpose International Navigator North 2010. N.B. Subject to approval by Advisory Group	£3,500 + £612 VAT Total £4,112.50
30/03/2010	Full fee for [X] to attend Common Purpose Meridian 2010/11	£4,500 + £787.50 VAT Total £5,287.50
13/04/2010	Full fee for Pitstop - Manchester City Council's Climate Resilience Forum	£850 + £148.75 VAT Total £998.75

With regard to Part 2 of your request, I hope that the Council will be in a position to let you have a response within the next fortnight.

Please note if you are not satisfied with this response you may ask for an internal review. If you wish to complain you should contact Lynn Evans, Information Compliance Officer (information-compliance @manchester.gov.uk) in the first instance. Your complaint will be considered by a senior officer who has not already been involved with this response. If you require more information about the Council's access to information complaints procedure this can be downloaded directly from:

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=200031&documentID=1322&pageNumber=3

Alternatively, if you prefer a paper copy, please let me know.

If you remain dissatisfied after an internal review has been undertaken, you have a right to apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner will normally expect you to exhaust our complaints machinery before considering your complaint.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Yours sincerely,

Lynn Evans

Corporate Information Governance Manager

Department

Telephone: +44 (0)161 234 4415
[email address]

Town Hall Manchester M60 2LA

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