Dear Sir or Madam,

Please detail total expenditure by the Office of the Immigration
Services Commissioner 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 this organisation.

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

Yours faithfully,

Robert MacLean

Dear Mr MacLean

I refer to your email dated 19 June 2008.

I am the OISC's Information Officer and it is my responsibility to reply to any requests for information under either the Data Protection Act 1998 or the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request was: "Please detail total expenditure by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner 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 this organisation."

The OISC did not become operational until 2001. Since then no member of the OISC staff has attended a Common Purpose course paid for by the OISC.

If you are unhappy about the way your request under the Freedom of Information Act has been handled then it is open to you to make a complaint to the OISC. Further details on how to make a complaint are on the OISC website. Alternatively, you can write direct to: Mr Larry Rush, OISC Head of HR, 5th Floor, Counting House, 53 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QN.

Should you make such a complaint and be dissatisfied with the way it is handled by the OISC, then you can take your complaint to the Information Commissioner. Details of how to do this are on his website at www.ico.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely

Patrick Cracroft-Brennan FCA
OISC Head of Finance and Information Officer

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