Freedom of Information Team

Chapel Wing, Guy's Hospital

Great Maze Pond

London SE1 9RT

Telephone: 020 7188 7658

30^th January 2009

By email to:[FOI #7062 email]

Dear D Bird,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST - Confirmation of Receipt FOI0576

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) dated 30^th January 2009. Please accept this letter as our formal acknowledgement of that request.

Unless you are otherwise informed, your request will be processed within a maximum of twenty (20) working days following the date when we received it.

At this moment, we are unaware of any fees, charges or exemptions likely to be applied to your request. However, if during the course of processing your application it becomes clear that fees will apply, we will inform you of this by recorded and signed delivery. In the event that costs are applicable, no information will be provided unless the costs are paid within three months of us informing you. In the event that some or all of the information you have requested is exempt from disclosure, we will inform you of this.

We will also contact you if during the process to locate and supply the information it emerges that we do not have sufficient detail to locate the information or we are unclear exactly what it is that you have requested.

We will keep you up-to-date with any other developments.

Yours sincerely,

Lorna Carpenter

FOI Team

Information Governance Department