Common Purpose and Invoices
James-Andrew:Houghton made this Rhyddid Gwybodaeth request to Birmingham City Council
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Dear Birmingham City Council,
Dear Sir or Madam
Please detail total expenditure by Birmingham City Council on 'Common Purpose' courses for each of the following years: 2008, 2009, and 2010 to date.
Please also supply a copy of the invoice for each Common Purpose course paid for by Birmingham City Council.
Also if it is possible, please include information on how long each delegate who attended the course had been in the employment of Birmingham City council.
By "Common Purpose", I mean the training organisation of that name: http://www.commonpurpose.org/home.aspx
Yours faithfully,
James-Andrew:Houghton
Dear Mr Houghton
Please see the attached for your Freedom of Information request.
(See attached file: James-Andrew Houghton.doc)
Yours sincerely
Corporate Information Governance Team
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Open up - or face court, council told
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/4821...
Saturday 26th December 2009
TOWN Hall chiefs have been threatened with High Court action amid claims they have breached the Freedom of Information Act.
Bolton Council is refusing to divulge the names of officers who attended a training course which cost taxpayers almost £30,000.
Now Deputy Information Commissioner David Smith has issued a decision notice against the authority telling it to open up - or face being held in contempt of court. Breightmet resident
John Greenwood submitted a Freedom of Information request in April asking for details of how much the council had spent with Common Purpose, copies of invoices and the names of officers who had received training from the not-forprofit organisation.