Comments on UUK Briefing Paper

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Dear University College London,

I am writing to request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 any response that you made to Universities UK subsequent to their request for comments or views (made in their briefing paper "2017 USS Valuation: Briefing paper for USS Employers" issued on the 5 July 2018, which specified 7 areas for discussion) in relation to the USS valuation.

Yours faithfully,

Silvester Allen

Finance.FOI Requests, University College London

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Shailer, Lee, University College London

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Dear Mr Allen,

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your request. Please excuse the delayed response.

We can confirm that we do hold information of the description specified in your request; this information is attached.

As you will see some information contained within the attached documents has been withheld. This information is personal data, specifically the names of some University employees.

This information has been withheld under section 40(2) of the FOIA by virtue of s40 (3)(a)(i).

Section 40(2) of the FOIA allows a public authority to withhold information from a response to a request under the FOIA when the information requested is personal data relating to someone other than the requestor, and its disclosure would breach any of the data protection principles.

In this case we believe that the disclosure of the names of these individuals would not be within their reasonable expectations and as such would be unfair and in breach of the first data protection principle which requires personal data to be processed fairly and lawfully.

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University College London
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Kind regards,

Lee Shailer
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Officer
Legal Services | UCL

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Dear Shailer, Lee,

Many thanks for your help with this request, and the university's commitment to transparency.

Yours sincerely,

Silvester Allen