Dear Sir or Madam

Please detail total expenditure by Brent Borough Council on Common
Purpose courses for each of the following years: 1997, 1998, 1999,
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 to date.

Please also supply a copy of the invoice for each Common Purpose
course paid for by Brent Borough Council.

By "Common Purpose", I mean the training organisation of that name:
http://www.commonpurpose.org/home.aspx

Yours faithfully, Mrs C Carter

Brent Council - INFORMATION REQUEST

Our Reference: 390392
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Dear Madam

Thank you for your request for information received on 25 June 2008. We aim
to respond to your request within 20 working days. If for any reason we are
unable to meet this deadline we will keep you fully informed of the reasons
for this and let you know how long the delay will be. If there is a fee to
be paid before the information can be sent to you we will write and tell you
at the earliest opportunity what the fee will be.

Yours faithfully

stephen f williams,
FOI & DPA Consultant
for Brent ITU
Phone: 020 8937 1426
[email address]
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Dear Sir or Madam, By law I was entitled to a reply for my FOI by
24th July.

Can you please supply the information requested or a reason for not
complying with the law governing the FOI act?

Yours sincerely, C Carter

Dear Caroline

Please accept my apologies for the delay in replying to your request. I
am currently awaiting a copy of the relevant invoice and hope to be in a
position to respond to your request in the near future.

regards

Stephen Williams
FOIA & Data Protection Consultant
Brent ITU

Room 103 Town Hall
Forty Lane
Wembley HA9 9AD

020 8937 1426

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Brent Council - INFORMATION REQUEST

Our Reference: 390392
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Dear Caroline

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
Formally we are refusing to respond to your request in accordance with
Section 12 of the Act because we estimate that doing so is likely to exceed
the Appropriate Limit. This is because not all invoices over the period you
have specified are likely to be held electronically or if they are, on
current systems. Invoices are stored and processed on a devolved basis by
individual services. Nevertheless we are letting you have the information
from 2005 onwards.

This is as follows:

Voucher No. Invoice No. Date Amount VAT Total Paid
EDPI004564 AV0264 21/05/07 £4,200.00 £735.00 £4,935.00 8/06/07

Copy of invoice attached.

Section 12 provides that a public authority need not comply with a request
for information where it estimates that doing so will exceed the
Appropriate Limit. For local government this is set at £450 calculated at
£25 per person hour.

If you are dissatisfied with the response or how the Council has handled
your request you can complain to the Council by writing to the following
address: IT Standards Manager at Brent Council, Room 105, Brent Town Hall,
Forty Lane, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 9HD, telephone 020 8937 1402, e-mail
[Brent Borough Council request email]. It is the Council's policy to ensure that, where
practicable, your complaint is dealt with by someone who was not involved in
the original decision.

You also have a right of appeal about our decision to the Information
Commissioner, however, the Information Commissioner will not normally
consider an appeal until you have exhausted your rights of redress and
complaint to the Council. The Information Commissioner can be contacted as
follows:
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF; Telephone: 01625 545 700,
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

yours sincerely

stephen f williams
for Head of IT
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