The financing of the overseas visitor management team

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Dear Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust,

I would like to know about the financing of the overseas visitor management team at your trust during the period from the 1st of January 2015 until the 1st of January 2016. Please provide a close estimate of the cost of the overseas team during that period. This cost could include salaries, but also overheads including facilities and equipment used.

Yours faithfully,

Ruth Atkinson

Sparrow Katie,

Dear Ruth,

FOI 318 - request regarding overseas finance

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Yours sincerely

Information Governance Team
Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Sparrow Katie,

Dear Ruth,

 

FOI 318 - request regarding overseas finance

 

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request on the above
subject. We have completed our search for information and the details are
as follows:

 

I would like to know about the financing of the overseas visitor
management team at your trust during the period from the 1st of  January
2015 until the 1st of January 2016. Please provide a close estimate of the
cost of the overseas team during that period. This cost could include
salaries, but also overheads including facilities and equipment used.

 

The Trust does not have any costs associated with this.  If we have
overseas visitors it would be picked up under normal processes, we do not
have an overseas visitor management team.

 

The full Freedom of Information Act 2000 is available on the legislation
website via the following link:
[1]http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000.... The Trust is
regarding this response as a full and complete discharge of its
responsibilities under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in relation to
this request. I trust it fulfils your requirements but should you have any
concerns please do not hesitate to contact me and I will attempt to
resolve your issues.

 

In the event you pursue a complaint/investigation and are not content with
the outcome, you have the option to apply directly to the Information
Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision
unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the Trust.
The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Information Governance Team

Tel: 0121 612 8017

Fax: 0121 612 3779

Black Country Partnership FT.

 

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