Dear Sir or Madam,

I and others are deeply concerned at the workings of a charity
named COMMON PURPOSE which seems deeply ingrained in many Councils,
hence I request that you detail total expenditure (if any) by Mid
Sussex District Council 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 Mid Sussex District Council.

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

Yours faithfully,

Linda Greyson.

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Dear Ms Greyson,

thank youfor your enquiry regarding Common Purpose.

We have checked with both our Personnel department and our financial records.

Any training courses have to be recorded with the Personnel department and for payments to be made to a company they would have to be registered as a creditor on our financial system. Personnel do not have any training courses recorded as being provided by this company and Common Purpose are not registered as a creditor on our financial system.

We can therefore state that we have not had any dealings with this company.

If for whatever reason you are unhappy with our response you are entitled to pursue any dissatisfaction through the Council's Complaints Procedure, in writing to the Head of Scrutiny, Mid Sussex District Council, Oaklands, Oaklands Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1SS or via the website www.midsussex.gov.uk ( http://www.midsussex.gov.uk/ )

Information provided under the FOI Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 may be not be re-used, except for personal study and non-commercial research or for news reporting and reviews, without the permission of the Council. Please see the Council website www.midsussex.gov.uk/page.cfm?pageID=4084 for further information or contact Corporate Information on 01444 477422.

yours sincerely,

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