Dear Sir or Madam,

A recent notice from the University Council

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2008...

attempted to outline how the Council and General Board arrived at
the current proposals issued in a White Paper about Statute U.
However minutes or other details for many of the meetings referred
to in that notice are not currently available on the University
committee meeting
web site and thus it is difficult to understand how the strategic
decisions were in fact made, and by which committee or sub-group.
In particular at some point a strategic decision seems to have been
made to separate academic and academic-related staff using
"schedule J" and to downgrade the rights of academic-related staff
with respect to academic staff. The effect of the change appears to
be targeting academic-related staff for easier redundancy and
dismissal proceedings.

Could the University please provide information on the following.

[1] Who was in attendance at the discussion of the Statute U
proposals at the "strategic meeting in March 2008" and what do the
minutes record of the discussion?

[2] Who was in attendance at the "joint informal meeting on 22nd
October 2008" and what do the minutes record of the discussion?

[3] The notice also refers to "a working party". (a) What was the
membership of the working party? (b) When were the meetings of that
working party? (c) Who was in attendance at each meeting of the
working party? (d) What do the minutes of those meetings record?

Yours faithfully,

David Goode

Dear Mr Goode,

This is to acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information Request. Your reference number is
FOI-2009-37.

We will respond on or before 24 April 2009.

Regards,
FOI Team

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University of Cambridge
Secretariat, The Old Schools
Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN

T: (01223 7)64142
F: (01223 3)32332
[email address]

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Dear Mr Goode,

Further to your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act, I enclose the
University's response.

Kind Regards,

FOI Team

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University of Cambridge
Secretariat, The Old Schools
Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN

T: (01223 7)64142
F: (01223 3)32332
[email address]

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Dear FOI,

Thank you for your response. I have one supplementary question
about the information provided:

You say, on p2 of your letter and in response to my question (d),
that "There are no minutes of the meetings of the Working Group", a
response in the present tense. Is that because:

a) No contemporaneous minutes were taken; or
b) Contemporaneous minutes were taken but no longer exist?

Yours sincerely,

David Goode

Dear Mr Goode,
No contemporaneous minutes were taken.
Yours sincerely
Kirsty Allen

Kirsty Allen, MA PhD
Senior Assistant Registrary
Secretariat
The Old Schools
Trinity Lane
Cambridge, CB2 1TN

Email: [email address]
Telephone (direct dial): 01223 332323
Telephone (Secretary: Ms Molly Hughes): 01223 764142

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Dear FOI,

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

David Goode

Dear FOI,

Having had time to look closely at what you sent me, I see that
while in question 2 I requested the minutes and attendance list of
the "joint informal meeting of Council on 22nd October 2008", what
you sent me was the minutes of another meeting, one held on 24
November 2008.

Please send me the correct information.

Yours sincerely,

David Goode

Dear Mr Goode,

Apologies for the error; please find enclosed the paper requested.

Kind regards,
FOI Team

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University of Cambridge
Secretariat, The Old Schools
Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN

T: (01223 7)64142
F: (01223 3)32332
[email address]

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Dear FOI,

Thank you for the document.

I have a further question:

You clarified the other day that there were no contemporaneous
minutes taken at meetings of the Working Group. Were notes taken,
even informal notes, at these meetings? And were documents and/or
papers tabled at these meetings? If so, I should like to see
copies, please.

Yours sincerely,

David Goode

Dear Mr Goode,
I acknowledge receipt of your further queries and will get back to you as soon as possible.
With best wishes
Kirsty Allen

Kirsty Allen, MA PhD
Senior Assistant Registrary
Secretariat
The Old Schools
Trinity Lane
Cambridge, CB2 1TN

Email: [email address]
Telephone (direct dial): 01223 332323
Telephone (Secretary: Ms Molly Hughes): 01223 764142

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Dear FOI,

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

David Goode

Dear Mr Goode,

Please find enclosed a letter regarding your Freedom of Information request.

Kind regards,
FOI Team

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University of Cambridge
Secretariat, The Old Schools
Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN

T: (01223 7)64142
F: (01223 3)32332
[email address]