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Dear Northumbria Police Authority,

Please can you supply information relating to requests by
Northumbria Police Authority for emergency and/or additional funding, grants or any other payments/funding from the Home Office and/or all/any other Government departments over and above the funding which is
allocated to Northumbria Police Authority by the Home Office each year, including following;

1. How many times have Northumbria Police Authority requested or received emergency and/or additional funding, grants or any other payments/funding from above parties during the past 12 years.

2. Please give full details of all emergency and/or and/or
additional funding, grants or any other payments/funding
paid to Northumbria Police Authority during the last 12 years.

3. Please give full details and reason/s for Northumbria Police Authority's requesting and/or being allocated such emergency and/or additional funding, grants or any other payments/funding from above parties during past 12 years.

4. Please supply all information and documents regarding criteria used when requesting emergency and/or additional funding, grants or any other payments/funding from above parties.

Yours faithfully,

Jo Asher

CS Enquiries.NPA, Northumbria Police Authority

Jo Asher

My Ref: CC29313


Date: 11/07/2011


Dear Sir/Madam

Subject: Freedom of Information - Chief Executive Office - Service
Improvement

I refer to the request, which you have made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 for records held by this department/office.

Acknowledgement

Your request dated 9 July 2011 was received by this department on 11
July 2011. The officer handling your request is Richard Hall. He may be
contacted by telephone on number 0191 433 2094 should you have any
questions or concerns about your request.

A final decision on your request would normally be sent to you within 20
working days of receipt of your request. This means that you can expect
to receive your decision by 08 August 2011.

There are some limited situations under the Freedom of Information Act,
which could mean that the period for a final decision may be longer than
the normal 20 working days. If this occurs in your request, we will
promptly advise you in writing.

Should our final decision not reach you on time, please feel free to
call the contact officer named above to discuss any problems that may
have arisen.

Non reply by us deemed to be a refusal

If you have not heard from us once the allotted time has expired, you
are automatically entitled to appeal to this department for a review of
the matter. This review is a full and new examination of the matter, and
is carried out by a more senior member of staff of this
department/office.

In the event that you need to make such an appeal, you can do so by
writing to Richard Hall of this department. You should state that you
are appealing because an initial decision was not sent to you within the
time permitted. In that event, you would normally have 40 days (after
the original decision should have been sent to you) in which time to
make the appeal.

Yours sincerely

Richard Hall

Richard Hall
Northumbria Police Authority
Direct Tel: 0191 433 2094
Email: [email address]
www.northumbria-police-authority.org

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Tanya Rossington, Northumbria Police Authority

Dear Madam
You requested the following information:-
Information relating to requests by Northumbria Police Authority for
emergency and/or additional funding, grants or any other payments/funding
from the Home Office and/or all/any other Government departments over and
above the funding which is allocated to Northumbria Police Authority by
the Home Office each year, including following;

1. How many times have Northumbria Police Authority requested or
received emergency and/or additional funding, grants or any other
payments/funding from above parties during the past 12 years.

2. Please give full details of all emergency and/or and/or additional
funding, grants or any other payments/funding paid to Northumbria Police
Authority during the last 12 years.

3. Please give full details and reason/s for Northumbria Police
Authority's requesting and/or being allocated such emergency and/or
additional funding, grants or any other payments/funding from above
parties during past 12 years.

4. Please supply all information and documents regarding criteria
used when requesting emergency and/or additional funding, grants or
any other payments/funding from above parties.
We are not required to comply with a request for information where it
would exceed the costs threshold to provide the information. In relation
to local authorities this limit is £450. We are entitled to use an
hourly rate of £25 per hour to determine whether or not this threshold
would be exceeded. We estimate it will take us significantly longer than
18.5 hours to provide the information requested. Because you are asking
for information going back over 12 years and this information is not held
on one system.

You will need to significantly modify your request in terms of the time
span over which you want the information in order for it to fall under the
costs threshold.

Yours faithfully
Information rights

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Dear Tanya Rossington,

Please supply me with the information for following years;

Jan 1999 - Jan 2000
Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

Jan 2010 - Jan 2011
Jan 2011 - (and up until request is answered)

While I am awaiting your reply, can you please release all information that I requested in number 4, "Please supply all information and documents regarding criteria used when requesting emergency and/or additional funding, grants or any other payments/funding from above parties."

Yours sincerely,

Jo Asher

Tanya Rossington, Northumbria Police Authority

I am out of the office until Tuesday 9 August. If you are making a
freedom of information request please forward your request to
[email address] or your request will be treated as
having been received on 9 August. If you are making a housing query please
contact Roddy Currie at [email address], if you are making
an enquiry relating to adult social care please contact Jenny Rookes at
[email address]

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Dear Tanya Rossington,

As you can see from the above, this reply was sent to you on 5/8/11

Please supply me with the information for following years;

Jan 1999 - Jan 2000
Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

And

Jan 2010 - Jan 2011
Jan 2011 - (and up until request is answered)

While I am awaiting your reply, can you please release all information that I requested in number 4, "Please supply all information and documents regarding criteria used when requesting emergency and/or additional funding, grants or any other payments/funding from above parties."

Yours sincerely,

Jo Asher

Tanya Rossington, Northumbria Police Authority

Dear Madam

As per our initial response when a request exceeds the costs limit we
are not obliged to deal with the request.

You have now modified your request to the information specified below
,will we incorporate your request for all information and documents
regarding criteria used when requesting emergency and/or additional
funding, grants or any other payments/funding from above parties." into
this new modified request.

Please note Foi only applies to information held in recorded form at the
time a request is received, and not as you ask for information up until
request is answered.

Yours faithfully

Information Rights

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Dear Tanya Rossington,

Thank you for that. You will see that I asked, 'Please supply all information and documents regarding criteria used when requesting emergency and/or additional funding, grants or any other ayments/funding from above parties.'

Can you let me have this information while you are dealing with the rest of this request.

Yours sincerely,

Jo Asher

Tanya Rossington, Northumbria Police Authority

Dear Madam

No we can't as I mentioned when a request exceeds the costs threshold we
do not have to respond. We are therefore treating your request as a new
revised request and will respond within 20 working days once the
information requested is to hand unless your new modified request
exceeds the costs limit.

Yours faithfully
Information Rights

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Richard Hall (Chief Executives), Northumbria Police Authority

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Dear Ms Asher

My Ref: CC29638 Your Ref: Date: 07/09/2011

Subject: Freedom of Information - Chief Executive Office - Service
Improvement

I refer to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and to your letter to this
office dated 5th August 2011 and received by us on 8th August 2011.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, we have formally
decided to grant access to the records requested and accordingly they are
as follows:

In accordance with the requirements to retain financial record, no records
are retained for the first years requested, Jan 1999 - Jan 2000 and Jan
2000 - Jan 2001. Within Financial Management Northumbria Police Authority
is provided with financial management services by Gateshead Council under
a service level agreement. Gateshead Council's has a Financial Management
Record Management Policy which advises detailed income and expenditure
tabulations, which would include details of any government grant, are only
retained for 6 years in accordance with recommended practice from the
Records Management Society of Great Britain.

Therefore, in response to the specific questions in relation to the other
years:
1. How many times have Northumbria Police Authority requested or received
emergency and/or additional funding, grants or any other payments/funding
from above parties

Answer: Jan 2010 - present: One application for Special Grant

2.Please give full details of all emergency and/or additional funding,
grants or any other payments/funding paid to Northumbria Police Authority

Answer: Jan 2010 - present: A Special Grant of £449,000 was paid by the
Home Office to Northumbria Police Authority in relation to Operation
Bulwark in March 2011.

3.Please give full details and reason/s for Northumbria Police Authority's
requesting and/or being allocated such emergency and/or additional
funding, grants or any other payments/funding from above parties.

Answer: Jan 2010 - present: An application for Special Grant was made in
relation to Operation Bulwark as a result of the exceptional costs being
incurred due to the complex operation and investigation.

4.Please supply all information and documents regarding criteria used when
requesting emergency and/or additional funding, grants or any other
payments/funding from above parties.

Answer: Jan 2010 - present: A special grant is a discretionary award from
the Home Office issued at the gift of ministers. The Home Office criteria
is attached.

The information provided in response to your request is copyright
Gateshead Council unless otherwise endorsed. Granting access to this
information under the Freedom of Information Act does not permit you to
re-use the information provided for commercial purposes, for photocopying
or reproduction in any form. If you wish to re-use the information you
need to apply for a Licence. You can do this by writing to Tanya
Rossington, Information Rights Officer, Legal and Corporate Services, 1st
Floor, Civic Centre, Regent Street, Gateshead, NE8 1HH. You may be
required to pay a fee or comply with conditions for permitted re-use.

Should you have any queries regarding the contents of this letter, please
contact me on 0191 433 2094.

Yours faithfully

Richard Hall
<<2008-12-15 revised criteriadoc.doc>>

Richard Hall
Northumbria Police Authority
Direct Tel: 0191 433 2094
Email: [email address]
[1]www.northumbria-police-authority.org

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Marty McGartland is single-handedly responsible for stopping at least 45 IRA bomb and assassination plots: http://politics.caledonianmercury.com/20... he saved the lives of at least fifty people and he put his own life in danger while doing so. As a result, the IRA kidnapped Martin 8th August 1991, Marty escaped certain death by jumping from a third floor window. Marty was moved to the UK mainland by British Government, however, for the past 20 years he has been hounded by the State, the Police, MI5 and others, simply because he wrote a book about his experiences; http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fifty-Dead-Men-W...

Marty was also shot at least 6 times by the IRA in June 1999, the IRA only found Marty's safe house after MI5, Northumbria Police and the CPS took a flawed and malicious prosecution against him, he was acquitted. However, during the court case Northumbria Police read out Martin's real name and even his home address. Marty's 1991 kidnapping has also been covered up for the past 20 years, The State (including RUC and PSNI) suppressed compelling evidence, evidence that would have resulted in his kidnappers being charged, the men were not even arrested, they were protected by the State for 18 years (until Marty make another complaint); http://www.scribd.com/doc/55567240/Top-P...

Northumbria Police, the Home Office, MI5, NIO, IPCC and many other organs of the State continue to cover up Marty's 1999 attempted murder too; https://www.facebook.com/MartinMcGartland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhyxr0zd...

This is a total disgrace, it is also wrong, it is a State cover-up. Marty McGartland is in very poor health as a result, the State cover-up has and continues to exacerbate this. The protecting of IRA terrorists and the covering-up of both Marty’s kidnapping and his 1999 attempted murder by the above parties has now gone on for between 12 and 20 years. The above parties are hell bent on protecting IRA terrorists who were involved with both attacks. The above parties are also using every trick in the book, and many more, to cover up their own wrongdoing.

www.martinmcgartland.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/BritishAgents

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Northumbr...

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Police-Co...

Support Marty McGartland (Agent Carol) in his fight for truth and justice. Lets expose those involved; http://www.causes.com/causes/548596-we-t...

You can also find out more information about the State Cover-Up in the Martin McGartland case by searching google, facebook, you tube or the web for: Martin McGartland Northumbria Poilice or Martin McGartland PSNI PPS.