Details of Research and Innovation Business Planning and Reporting Structure in Relation to Derek Waddell’s Travel

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for your previous replies.

As Edinburgh University’s business arm, Edinburgh Research and
Innovation presumably has a Business Plan (BP) updated annually.
Please provide copies of the BP for the years in which information
on Derek Waddell’s travel has already been provided (2007, 2008,
2009). Please indicate those parts of the BP(s) that prescribe in
advance the objectives fulfilled by Mr Waddell’s travel.

If no business plan existed ahead of his travel please say so.

In addition to the BP, or flowing from it, (or alternatively if no
BP existed in advance of Mr Waddell’s travel-years), please provide
advance details of the Institutional objectives which Mr Waddell’s
travel fulfilled, and how these relate to Mr Waddell’s personal
objectives for each of the travel-years in question. Please provide
details of all objectives (in documents pre-dating the travel)
fulfilled by Mr Waddell’s travel thereafter. Please do NOT present
retrospective justification for Mr Waddell’s travel. Please then
indicate how well each trip fulfilled the pre-stated objectives.

It is standard business practice to make a detailed case for
business travel, particularly justification for the opportunity
cost of absence. In relation to Foreign Travel details of which you
have already provided, please provide the case for each trip
presented by Mr Waddell to his line manager in advance of each
foreign trip listed. Where no advance case was made, please say so.
Again please – no retrospective justification.

Yours faithfully,

Gordon Neill