PERSONAL DATA (SECTION 40) 
 
 
Financial Accounting 
10th Floor  
   
 
102 Petty France  
Point 1.41 
London  
SW1H 9AJ 
 
T: 020 3334 4314   
E: [email address] 
 
www.justice.gov.uk 
 
Mr. Soles  
 
 
 
[mailto:[FOI #9193 email]] 
 
 
Our Ref: FOI58527 
 
14 April 2009 
 
Dear Mr. Soles,  
 
Freedom of Information Request 
 
Thank you for your email of 10 March 2009, in which you asked for the following 
details relating to Her Majesty’s Courts Service from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ):  
 
     On a yearly basis from 2000 onwards, unless of course money was 
     paid to Common Purpose from an earlier period, in which case please 
     include information from the earlier period: 
 
1.  Name all employees/staff/Judges who have attended a Common Purpose 
course? 
 
2.  How much money has been paid to this organisation? 
 
3.  Please provide copies of invoices/receipts 
 
Your query was passed to my team on 16 March 2009 because I have responsibility 
for answering requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) which 
relate to expenditure across the Ministry of Justice as a whole.   
 
For the first and last element of your enquiry, I can confirm that the Department holds 
the information you are seeking, but I am unable to disclose it in full to you.  This is 
because the information is the personal data of another person, and disclosure would 
be unfair to that other person who is the subject of the data. We are unable to supply 
copies of the invoices for the same reason, as the names of those attending the 
courses are shown.  
 
Section 40(2) of the FOIA states that personal data relating to third parties (i.e. a 
party other than the person requesting the information) is exempt information if one 
of the conditions in Section 40(3) is satisfied.  It is my view that disclosure of this 
information would breach one or more of the Data Protection Principles in the Data 
Protection Act 1998 (DPA).   
 

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PERSONAL DATA (SECTION 40) 
 
For the second part of your query, I am, however, able to provide you with the details 
of payments made to Common Purpose by MoJ Accounts Payable on behalf of Her 
Majesty’s Courts Service since 2000/2001 which are as follows: 
 
Invoice DATE 
Transaction Detail 
Transaction 
Amount 
18-01-2008 
One attendee of the Common Purpose Merseyside 
£4,964.38 
Matrix 2008 Programme 
18-09-2007 
One attendee to Common Purpose Wales Navigator 
£3,525.00 
Programme 2007 
31-10-2006 
One attendee to Common Purpose Wales Navigator 
£2,350.00 
Programme 2006 
23-03-2006 
One attendee of Common Purpose 20:20 Programme 
£5,698.75 
10-02-2006 
One attendee of Common Purpose Profile Programme 
£1,116.25 
2006 
05-10-2005 
One attendee of Common Purpose Hull Matrix 
£4,641.25 
2005/06 Programme 
04-08-2004 
* 
£587.50 
20-08-2003 
* 
£329.00 
10-07-2003 
* 
£4,406.25 
24-06-2002  
*  
£940.00  
(Not a duplication) 
24-06-2002 
* 
£940.00 
05-04-2002 
* 
£998.75 
23-01-2002 
* 
£4,230.00 
12-03-2001 
* 
£79.00 
30-01-2001 
* 
£2,996.25 
09-01-2001 
* 
£2,996.25 
04-04-2000 
* 
£1,468.75 
* Invoices are archived and as such the transaction details could only be retrieved at a disproportionate cost.  
 
Section 12 of the FOIA makes provision for public authorities to refuse requests for 
information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, 
which for central government is set at £600.  This represents the estimated cost of 
one person spending 3.5 working days in determining whether the Department holds 
the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information. The invoices held 
for information prior to 2005 are archived off site and it is anticipated it would exceed 
the cost limit to retrieve and review copies of this information, bearing in mind the 
time already spent in collating the information above. 
 
You may wish to narrow the scope of your request in order to try and bring it within 
the cost limit, for example, you may wish to request details of a smaller number of 
invoices only or for a shorter financial period.  
 
As part of our obligations under the FOIA, the Ministry of Justice has an independent 
review process.  If you are dissatisfied with this decision, you may write to request an 
internal review.  The internal review will be carried out by someone who did not make 
the original decision, and they will re-assess how the Department handled the 
original request. 
If you wish to request an internal review, please write or send an email to the Data 
Access and Compliance Unit within two months of the date of this letter, at the 
following address: 
 
Data Access and Compliance Unit 
Information Directorate 
Ministry of Justice 
1st Floor, Zone 1C 
Post point 1.41 
102 Petty France 

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PERSONAL DATA (SECTION 40) 
 
London 
SW1H 9AJ 
 
e-mail: [HMCS request email] 
 
If you remain dissatisfied after an internal review decision, you have the right to apply 
to the Information Commissioner’s Office under Section 50 of the FOIA.  You can 
contact the Information Commissioner’s Office at the following address: 
 
Information Commissioner’s Office 
Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow 
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF 
 
Internet:  https://www.ico.gov.uk/Global/contact_us.aspx 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
Tracy Barker 
Head of Financial Accounting 

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