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Common Purpose expenditure and invoices

John Walker made this Freedom of Information request to Office for National Statistics

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From: John Walker

12 February 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,
In the absence of the courtesy of a reply to Mr McLean's request of
19 June 2008 here:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...

I am going to have a try.

Please provide details of:

1. the names and ranks/grades of all employees in your organisation
who are Common Purpose 'graduates'.

2. the total expenditure by your organisation on Common Purpose
courses for each of the years 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 to date together with a
copy of the invoice for each Common Purpose course paid for by your
organisation.

By 'Common Purpose', I mean the training organisation of that name:
http://www.commonpurpose.org By Common Purpose 'graduate', I refer
to those people who have passed the advanced Common Purpose
courses.

Yours faithfully,

John Walker

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From: John Walker

13 March 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

This FOI request is overdue a response.

I therefore request an internal review into the delay.

Yours sincerely,

John Walker

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From: FOI Team
Office for National Statistics

16 March 2009

Dear Mr Walker,

Thank you for your email and I apologise for the delay in responding this
was due to an internal mix-up over who was supposed to be responding to
you.

I have spoken with our HR and Procurement departments and they have checked
all of our archived docs and financial systems and the only record of
expenditure we have with Common Purpose was in November 2000 when we paid
them £188.00. I understand that due to the 'historic' nature of this
payment we no longer have a copy of the invoice or any other details of
what this expenditure was for.

Yours Sincerely,

Nicola Shearman
FOI Manager, Office for National Statistics

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13/03/2009 05:46 Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Common Purpose
expenditure and invoices

Dear Sir or Madam,

This FOI request is overdue a response.

I therefore request an internal review into the delay.

Yours sincerely,

John Walker

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