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ELQ Regulations & Medical Degrees
Response
by Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to Damien Shannon on 9 February 2012.
Awaiting classification.
BIS ref: 12/0199
Dear Mr Shannon,
Thank you for your request for information which was received on 8
February 2012. Your request has been pass...
ELQ & Medical Degrees
Successful.
by Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to Damien Shannon on 9 November 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mr Shannon,
Thank you for the follow up to your FOI request 11/1437.
The link provided by you in your initial FOI request directed officials to...
Details of 'Other Operating Expenses'
Partially successful.
by University of Salford to Damien Shannon on 5 October 2011.
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Shannon,
Further to our correspondence last week relating to your request, please find the summary detail of the annual accounts 2007-8 for...
Full details of "Other operating expenses"
Follow up
sent to University of Salford by Damien Shannon on 6 September 2011.
Withdrawn by the requester.
You have now provided detailed arguments to the Office of the Information Commissioner regarding your decision to reject the above Freedom of Infor...
Government Bonds
Follow up
sent to Her Majesty’s Treasury by Damien Shannon on 12 May 2011.
Information not held.
Thank you for this response. I will make a separate request to the DMO.
Yours sincerely,
Damien Shannon
Former Personal Assistant to the Registrar & Secretary
Partially successful.
This is yet again with the Information Commissioner now.
University of Salford/Hospitality etc
Successful.
by Information Commissioner’s Office to Damien Shannon on 14 March 2011.
Successful.
Thank you for emailing the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). This is
an automated acknowledgement; please do not reply to this email.
If your...
Number of Academic Staff on Part-Time Contracts
Successful.
The Information Commissioner has published Decision Notice FS50294660, which covers this request:
"The Commissioner has examined the public authorit...
The Information Commissioner has published Decision Notice FS50294659, which covers this request:
"The Commissioner has examined the public authorit...
University of Salford
Handled by post.
by Information Commissioner’s Office to Damien Shannon on 17 February 2011.
Handled by post.
Link: [1]File-List
17th February 2011
Case Reference Number IRQ0370619
Dear Mr Shannon
I am writing further to our email dated 25 Januar...
Graduate Recruitment Data
Successful.
by British Broadcasting Corporation to Damien Shannon on 2 February 2011.
Successful.
Dear Mr Shannon,
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20110007
<<RFI20110007 - Final Response.pdf>> <<...
ELQ & Medical Degrees
Follow up
sent to Department for Business, Innovation and Skills by Damien Shannon on 20 October 2010.
Partially successful.
Thank you for conducting this Internal Review as requested.
I am afraid I haven't the foggiest interest in "policy principles" as described at le...
ELQ Regulations and Medical Degrees
Follow up
sent to Student Loans Company Limited by Damien Shannon on 18 October 2010.
Information not held.
Thank you for conducting an internal review of this Freedom of Information Request, as prompted.
There are two elements of your conclusions I tak...
Thank you for your response. I accept you are busy and, by Salford's standards, a two day delay is not bad at all.
I will consider the contents o...
ELQ
Follow up
sent to Higher Education Funding Council for England by Damien Shannon on 21 September 2010.
Successful.
I entirely accept HEFCE's response to this Freedom of Information Request. I agree with the exemptions applied regarding personal data.
Would you...
HEFCE Grants to the University of Salford
Follow up
sent to Higher Education Funding Council for England by Damien Shannon on 19 August 2010.
Partially successful.
Thank you for supplying the information requested.
I agree with HEFCE's analysis regarding the exemption applied and as a result see no need to a...
Graduate Entry Medicine Admissions Statistics
Successful.
by University of Bristol to Damien Shannon on 11 August 2010.
Successful.
Dear Mr Shannon
Please find attached the figures in relation to your Freedom of Information
request.
If you are not satisfied with the University's...
Graduate Entry Medicine Admissions Statistics
Successful.
by University of Oxford to Damien Shannon on 9 August 2010.
Successful.
Dear Mr Shannon,
I attach a reply to your request.
Yours sincerely
FOI Oxford
Damien Shannon To FOI requests at
<[FOI #42376 email]> Universi...
Amendment of University Charter/Appointment of Jon Corner
Follow up
sent to University of Salford by Damien Shannon on 5 August 2010.
Refused.
No need to make a public interest disclosure even!
I have acquired the minutes of the Privy Council's meetings, and the amendments to the Univers...
Halliwells LLP/Chair of Audit Committee Ian Austin
Follow up
sent to University of Salford by Damien Shannon on 5 August 2010.
Refused.
Half of this request can be obtained under the Data Protection Act, the other half will be incorporated into my submission to HEFCE.
Yours sincer...
'Streaming' Of Pupils at Secondary Schools
Follow up
sent to Department for Education by Damien Shannon on 3 August 2010.
Partially successful.
Thank you for providing the information you had available. Whilst not exhaustive, it is indicative enough for the purposes for which I required the...
Selection Criteria For 'Question Time' Audience
Follow up
sent to British Broadcasting Corporation by Damien Shannon on 2 August 2010.
Refused.
Please note, I was referring to the "public interest" - not the "publish interest" - in my previous email.
I was responding on a Blackberry and i...
Graduate Entry Medicine Admissions Statistics
Follow up
sent to Imperial College London by Damien Shannon on 2 August 2010.
Successful.
Thank you for supplying the data as requested and for your helpful means of presenting it, it is highly appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Damien Sh...
Graduate Entry Medicine Admissions Statistics
Successful.
by University of Birmingham to Damien Shannon on 9 July 2010.
Successful.
Dear Mr Shannon
Please find attached the University of Birmingham's response to your recent enquiry, if you have any queries please do not hesitate...
Graduate Entry Medicine Admissions Statistics
Successful.
by Queen Mary, University of London to Damien Shannon on 24 June 2010.
Successful.
Dear Mr. Shannon
We have now managed to collate the information relating to your revised
request i.e. this is for graduates admitted to the GEP pro...
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ELQ & Medical Degrees
Request to Department for Business, Innovation and Skills by Damien Shannon. Annotated by Damien Shannon on 7 November 2011.
Successful.
Dear Kiara,
Yes I have seen it has been amended. I have also provided a mutual acquaintance of ours with an explanation of the legal position outline...
ELQ & Medical Degrees
Request to Department for Business, Innovation and Skills by Damien Shannon. Annotated by Damien Shannon on 29 October 2011.
Successful.
Dear Kiara,
For the avoidance of doubt:
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2188/unledidt.jpg
Hope this helps
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Register of Interests
Long overdue.
Requestor was asked to demonstrate proof of identity and stopped corresponding - it is presumed the request was made under a pseudonym.
Former Personal Assistant to the Registrar & Secretary
Partially successful.
This is yet again with the Information Commissioner now.
Former Personal Assistant to the Registrar & Secretary
Partially successful.
To those who have been following my FoI requests, I received a decision notice from the Information Commissioner today.
He has upheld my complaints a...
University of Salford complaints
Request to Information Commissioner’s Office by Ganesh Sittampalam. Annotated by Damien Shannon on 31 January 2011.
Withdrawn by the requester.
Thank you for pointing me to this.
However, I hasten to point out that the response I received from the Office of the Information Commissioner did st...
Total Annual Figures for Compromise Agreements, etc.
Request to Mansfield District Council by Paul Cardin. Annotated by Damien Shannon on 21 January 2011.
Successful.
The explanation given here is total nonsense.
There is no need to go through personnel files manually. Virtually all compromise agreements involve a...
Probably best submitting this one to the OIC rather than the University, as the former is also subject to the FoI Act and is much more likely to provi...
Use of Halliwells LLP
Successful.
Too late Mr Stephenson - this one is already being widely disseminated.
You can refuse to agree to have the case closed - the Information Commissioner can only close a case with your consent.
The trouble is that decision...
Use of Halliwells LLP
Successful.
First of all, if you don't want comments then don't submit the request via a public website which invites annotations.
Second of all, if your object...
Use of Halliwells LLP
Successful.
Shocker!
Use of Halliwells LLP
Successful.
It might be instructive for you to also submit a request about the use of Heatons LLP, since Halliwells' former Managing Partner has migrated over the...
Expenses of SLT members
Awaiting internal review.
Assuming Matthew Stephenson's assertion here is correct - that the University's Audit Committee decided to "make these expenses available on request"...
I sincerely hope that the Information Commissioner is not cutting deals with the University, allowing them to publish information in exchange for avoi...
Use of Halliwells LLP
Successful.
Doesn't look like you're going to even get an acknowledgement!
Register of suppliers
Successful.
I would be extremely interested to learn why the University of Salford shifted ground from the original defence of vexatiousness to eventually (!) pub...
Please follow this one up, as I for one am extremely eager to read the contents of this report.
Student Loans & Previous Studies Policy
Request to Student Loans Company Limited by Gerald Kapfidze. Annotated by Damien Shannon on 21 August 2010.
Successful.
Gerald,
The current policy is that if a prospective student applying for Student Finance in England has equivalent or higher qualification to that wh...
Expenses of SLT members
Awaiting internal review.
This particular request has taken on added fame by virtue of being the subject of a news article in this week's edition of Private Eye.
Available in...
FoI Disclosure Logs for 2007, 2008 and 2009
Successful.
Surely it undermines their defence against other requests (conspiracy & vexatiousness) if they're hand-picking ones that people have sent them for app...
Expenses of SLT members
Awaiting internal review.
Fear not Miss Quinn.
My FOI requests are now at the Information Commissioner stage and, if the IC forces the University to publish the data requeste...
In my opinion, the only reason they are now answering some other requests is because they want to try and make themselves look reasonable to the Infor...
Former Personal Assistant to the Registrar & Secretary
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Dickinson,
Thank you for your email on this matter.
I will keep my response brief so as not to bore you with meticulous detail.
If the U...
Former Personal Assistant to the Registrar & Secretary
Partially successful.
Case Reference Numbers FS50288812; FS50294656; FS50294659; and FS50294660
Dear Mr Shannon
I am writing with reference to your four complaints abou...
