Prevent - University registers of research and 'firewalls'

The request was partially successful.

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please provide the following:

1. Your Prevent action plan or any document that outlines your institution’s Prevent policy in line with your obligations under the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015

2. Confirm if students, researchers and members of staff are obliged to register research which is deemed to be security sensitive

3. If such a register exists, the number of entries for each of the years 2018 (up to the date of this request), 2017, 2016 and 2015. By entries, I mean occasions on which individuals have registered research which falls into the category set out in bullet point 2. If possible, please identify the nature of the research (eg PhD, internally funded, externally funded) and topic

4. If such a register exists, confirm whether or not it is stored onsite or on an external server.

5. If such a register exists, confirm whether the register is subject to any information sharing agreements with external partners or agencies including local and regional Prevent coordinators, the Home Office, the local Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit, the local police or any other law enforcement agencies

6. A list of any agreements, arrangements or Memorandums of Understanding between your institution and bodies such as the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), or Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) of the City of London Police, to receive lists of illegal or illicit content, for instance for the purposes of blocking.

7. Confirm if any filtering or blocking service that your institution uses incorporate lists from the IWF, CTIRU or PIPCU, and which lists are incorporated;

Freedom of Information, University of St Andrews

Dear Mr Quinn,

Many thanks for your enquiry below. Before I can proceed to process your request however under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), I would be grateful if you could confirm that your name is as it appears in the email address above?

I am asking for this point of clarification as part of the University’s duty under Section 15 of the FOISA is to provide advice and assistance to enquirers. Details of your name is important for two reasons:

• For a request to be valid under section 8(1)(b) of the FOISA the name of the applicant needs to be stated in the enquiry – a request with no name appearing in the body of an email does not meet this requirement.
• To safeguard your own rights. In the event that the University answered your enquiry in such a way that you were unhappy with the response given, after an internal review, your next course of action would be to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner. The Commissioner however, is unable to deal with any applications where it is found that the original enquiry was invalid as in this case.

Your request is considered to be invalid at present and will therefore be held pending until I hear from you further.

Yours sincerely,

June

June Weir
Information Assurance and Governance Officer
Office of the Principal

University of St Andrews
Butts Wynd Building
Butts Wynd
St Andrews KY16 9AJ
Fife, Scotland

Tel: +44 (0)1334 462776

www.st-andrews.ac.uk

The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland: No SC013532

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Dear Ms. Weir

My name is as it appears in the email and below.

Yours sincerely,

Ben Quinn

Freedom of Information, University of St Andrews

Dear Mr Quinn,

 

Many thanks for your email below. I confirm your request for information
is currently being processed under the Freedom of Information (Scotland)
Act 2002 as referred to in my acknowledgement dated 30 October, 2018.

 

For the avoidance of doubt, I appear to have received two communications
from you as noted below asking for the same information and this is being
managed as a single enquiry (Our Ref: 353-18):

 

·         ‘request-526482-8046a454@....’ dated 15 October, 2018 which did
not contain details of your name in the body of the email message; and

·         ‘request-527988-6ad27ae9@...’ dated 22 October, 2018 providing
name details was omitted from your earlier communication.

 

You can expect to receive the University's response no later than 19
November, 2018

 

Kind Regards

 

June

 

 

 

 

June Weir

Information Assurance and Governance Officer

Office of the Principal

 

University of St Andrews

Butts Wynd Building

Butts Wynd

St Andrews KY16 9AJ

Fife, Scotland

 

Tel: +44 (0)1334 462776

 

www.st-andrews.ac.uk

 

 

The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland: No
SC013532

 

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Freedom of Information, University of St Andrews

1 Attachment

Dear Ben,

 

Thank you for your information request, 15 October 2018. Please find
attached the University’s response, which I am making on behalf of my
colleague June Weir.

 

With best wishes,

 

Chris

 

Christopher Milne

Head of Information Assurance and Governance

Office of the Principal

University of St Andrews

St Andrews, Fife KY169AJ

Scotland

T: +44(0)1334464010

M: 07720948036

E: [1][email address]

 

The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland :
SC013532

 

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