Dear Sir or Madam,

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

Dear Sir or Madam,

In the absence of a reply to my FOI request of 27 January 2009, I
request an internal review of your organisation's handling of that
request details of which can be seen here:

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

Yours sincerely,

John Walker

Dear Mr Walker

I am afraid that we do not have a record of having received this request from you. On the date you mentioned, 27 January, you put in another request which we responded to on 12 February. This request and the response was as follows:

"1. The MPA does not have a written ‘policy regarding investigation of allegations such as these’
2. The MPA is not an investigatory body and would not investigate allegations of corruption such as you have made. If you consider that there has been corruption or criminal activity I am afraid you must address those concerns elsewhere
3. There is no correspondence internally or externally in relation to your complaints of 30.10.08 or 3.1.09"

In terms of the questions you are also looking for a response to, the answers are as follows:

1. the names and ranks/grades of all employees in your organisation
who are Common Purpose 'graduates'. - none to my knowledge in that the MPA has not funded any such courses

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. - no expenditure since the MPA was created in 2000.

Yours sincerely

Simon Vile

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