Severance Pay Community and Childrens Services

The City of London acknowledges receipt of your request.

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Following receipt of your request for information on 16 December 2009, and
our acknowledgement of the same date, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows:

We can confirm that for years 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009 there has
been no severance or redundancy payments for Senior Managers in the
Department of Community & Children's Services. However for years 2005/2006
and 2009/2010 there are cases. However, the number is very small and
therefore disclosure of the information you request could result in the
disclosure of personal information about identifiable individuals. When
responding to requests to disclose information relating to a small number
of staff, or former staff, of a small authority it will be relevant to
consider whether disclosure could compromise an individual's privacy at
any time and whether such disclosure would be unwarranted and unfair. We
therefore consider that, although we can confirm that the data is held, on
this occasion we apply FOIA section 40(2) exemption (Personal Information)
in relation to part of your request as we consider that disclosure of this
information would compromise the privacy of individuals. The section 40(2)
exemption is an absolute exemption, i.e. it is not subject to the public
interest test.

Please note that the CoL is the Local Authority for the "square mile"
only, ie the historic City of London, and not London as a whole, which is
covered by over 30 boroughs and the Westminster City Council. Please see
the following link to a map on the CoL's website, which shows the area
covered: [1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/maps/boundary_map.htm.

We hope that this assists. Nevertheless, should you wish to make a
complaint about the way the CoL has handled your enquiry, please make your
complaint in writing to email address: [email address]. For
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the FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700. Website: [3]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.

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Community & Children's Services
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Thank you for your email of 31 January 2010.

By this email, your request for a review is copied to our complaints
officer, who will log your complaint. The City of London aims to respond
to FOI complaints within 20 working days from the first working day after
receiving the complaint.

City of London
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Following receipt of your request dated 31January 2010 for an internal
review of the response that the City of London (CoL) sent to you on 18
January, and our acknowledgement, also of 31 January, the CoL responds as
follows:

The CoL has reviewed its original response. Since the numbers concerned in
each year are so low, the CoL upholds the decision to use the section
40(2) exemption. The numbers are just one individual in each year
concerned, ie in 2005/6 and 2009/10. The CoL considers that, if such low
numbers were cross referenced with other data, the individuals in question
could be indentified.

If you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700. Website: [1]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.

Please note that the Freedom of Information Act applies to the CoL as a
local authority, police authority and port health authority.

The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

Yours sincerely

Community & Children's Services
[2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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