Cost of desktop software licences in Lewisham

Dear Mr. Jacobsen,

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your recent request, received 13 March 2008, concerning:

"the Council's budget and expenditure on licences and software for Lewisham schools."

Your request is being considered and you will receive a response within the statutory timescale of 20 working days, subject to the application of any exemptions. Where consideration is being given to exemptions the 20 working day timescale may be extended to a period considered reasonable depending on the nature and circumstances of your request. In such cases you will be notified and, where possible, a revised time-scale will be indicated. In all cases we shall attempt to deal with your request at the earliest opportunity.

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of the information requested where the request exceeds the statutory limit or where disbursements exceed £10. In such cases you will be informed in writing and your request will be suspended until we receive payment from you or your request is modified and/or reduced.

Your request may require either full or partial transfer to another public authority. You will be informed if your request is transferred.

If we are unable to provide you with the information requested we will notify you of this together with the reason(s) why and details of how you may appeal (if appropriate).

Please note that the directorate team may contact you for further information.

Yours sincerely,

Neil Cheng
Information Governance Assistant

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Dear Mr. Jacobsen,

Following receipt of your Freedom of Information request, there is an
issue raised within your request that requires clarification.

Please could you elucidate on the term "other council institutions"
within:

* how much money has been budgeted by other council institutions
for
purchasing of licences mentioned above?

Please note that the directorate team(s) will not be able to satisfy
your Freedom of Information request fully, until you have supplied us
with the aforementioned information. As such, until we receive this
clarification the statutory time scale of 20 working days for responding
to requests will not commence.

If you have any queries with regards to this email, then please do not
hesitate to contact me directly.

I hope this information was of use to you.

Yours sincerely,

Neil Cheng
Corporate Information Governance Assistant

Direct Line: 0208 314 64074

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Dear Mr. Jacobsen

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information provided

Further to your letter, received 14 March 2008, we are pleased to attach
the following information:

"the London Borough of Lewisham's council-wide expenditure/budget on
desktop software licences."

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We are sorry to inform you that we do not hold the following information
concerning:

"the London Borough of Lewisham's expenditure/budget on school desktop
software licenses."

Please see the attached document for a more specific response to this
matter.

We trust that the information provided is useful to you.

Yours sincerely,

Neil Cheng
Information Governance

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