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Dear Sir/Madam,

I am seeking information about the value of the pension fund administered by your university, as well as the value of specific holdings and dividend income from those holdings.

In addition, I am seeking information about research funding your university receives.

1. What is the most recent available value of the pension fund your organisation administers?
2. What is the latest available value of the fund’s directly-held investment in shares or bonds of the following companies: BAE Systems, Raytheon, Airbus, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell.
3. What was the value of these holdings a year before the most recent valuation given above, or at the most recent previous valuation?
4. What dividend income and/or bond yield did the fund receive from these investments in the last 12-month period for which records are available?
5. Does the fund have any other investments in these companies via pooled investments? What is the value and dividend income from these investments?
6. The total amount, in pounds sterling, that you have received in research funding from these companies in the last five financial years. Details should be broken down for each company, year-by-year for the last five financial years.
7. The total amount, in pounds sterling, that you have has received in the form of industrial consultancy and industrial research fees from these companies in the last five financial years. Details should be broken down for each company, year-by-year for the last five financial years.

Yours faithfully,

R Vidal

infocompliance, Resource, University of Warwick

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Dear University of Warwick,

Could you please let me know when you intend to reply to this request?

Yours faithfully,

R Vidal

infocompliance, Resource, University of Warwick

Good Afternoon,

The University apologies for the delay in responding to your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.

Due to the nature of your request, it has taken some time to gather and consolidate the information you have requested, but we hope to be able to provide you with a response soon and will be in touch in due course.

Kind Regards,

Information and Data Compliance Team

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Dear Information and Compliance team,

Could you let me know when you intend to respond, please?

Yours sincerely,

R Vidal

infocompliance, Resource, University of Warwick

Good Afternoon,

Thank you for your emails dated 29^th March 2019 requesting information
from the University of Warwick. Your request is being considered under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please find below your request and our
response.

1. What is the most recent available value of the pension fund your
organisation administers?

 

Please note that the University’s Pension Scheme (UPS) is a separate legal
entity from the University and is not a public authority as defined by the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. Therefore records of the UPS are not
covered by the Freedom of Information Act.

 

2. What is the latest available value of the fund’s directly-held
investment in shares or bonds of the following companies: BAE Systems,
Raytheon, Airbus, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell.

 

Please see above response to question 1.

 

3. What was the value of these holdings a year before the most recent
valuation given above, or at the most recent previous valuation?

 

Please see above response to question 1.

 

4. What dividend income and/or bond yield did the fund receive from these
investments in the last 12-month period for which records are available?

 

Please see above response to question 1.

 

5. Does the fund have any other investments in these companies via pooled
investments? What is the value and dividend income from these investments?

 

Please see above response to question 1.

 

6. The total amount, in pounds sterling, that you have received in
research funding from these companies in the last five financial years.
Details should be broken down for each company, year-by-year for the last
five financial years.

 

Year Raytheon BAE Systems Northrup Grumman
2013/14 £0 £30,000 £0
2014/15 £0 £0 £0
2015/16 £24,000 £99,200 £59,939
2016/17 £0 £100,782 £0
2017/18 £0 £126,000 £0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data Notes:

 

·         Please note that the data provided includes research only.

 

 

7. The total amount, in pounds sterling, that you have has received in the
form of industrial consultancy and industrial research fees from these
companies in the last five financial years. Details should be broken down
for each company, year-by-year for the last five financial years.

 

The University received £1,000 from Honeywell Gas Detection in or around
May 2017 in relation to exhibiting at a conference. The University holds
no further records of receiving funds for non-research activities from the
companies listed in the last 5 financial years.

If you are dissatisfied with the way in which your request has been
handled you can request an internal review within one month of our
response and, in the first instance, you are advised to follow the
procedure outlined here:
[1]http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/legal...

If you remain dissatisfied with how your request has been handled, you
have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Walter Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF (0303 123 1113) ([2]https://ico.org.uk/).
There is no charge for making an appeal.

Yours sincerely,

Ken Punter

Ken Punter | Deputy Director of University Marketing| Engagement Group
University House | University of Warwick | Coventry | CV4 8UW

 

 

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