Our Reference: FOI.2020.11.515
Legal Services
Director (Interim)
Andrew Clarke
Mrs N Cárdenas Blanco
What Do They Know
Solicitor
(By Email)
15 January 2021
Dear Mr Clarke
Re: request for information under The Freedom of Information Act.
Please accept our apologies for the late response to your request for information dated
9 November 2020. If you have any queries with regard to this letter, please do not
hesitate to contact us.
Please note our statement in respect of Copyright, which is also attached.
If you are dissatisfied with the manner in which your request has been dealt with, you
may ask for an internal review. The University’s Complaints and Appeals procedure
is available at
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/governance/policies-
regs/information/index.aspx
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Team
University of Birmingham
Encs
University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom
T: 0121 414 3916 E:xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxxx.xx.xx w:www.bham.ac.uk
University of Birmingham
2020.11.515
Freedom of Information Request – Andrew Clarke
Your request for information reads:
could you please send me redacted minutes of Council meetings since the 26th
June 2019, which are the last ones available on the Birmingham University website.
The University of Birmingham responds:
The University of Birmingham is required to respond to a request made under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the Act”) if it holds the information being requested,
unless it is appropriate to apply one of the limited exemptions set out in the Act.
Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic The University of Birmingham is
adapting its usual approach to processing Freedom of Information requests in order to
meet the unprecedented challenges we are all facing. Whilst some staff are able to
work remotely, since 23 March 2020 they are concentrating on supporting teaching
and learning for our students who have returned for the new academic year under
challenging circumstances. We are mindful that information requests place some
degree of demand on a public authority’s resources in terms of costs and staff time
and that for the foreseeable future the University must prioritise resources to other
areas.
Confirmed minutes of Council Meetings since 26th June 2019 are currently available
on the University of Birmingham’s website at
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/governance/council/index.aspx. The Refusal Notice below explains why you are being referred to the University’s
website.
Refusal Notice
Reasons for non-disclosure
Section 21 – Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information reasonably
accessible by other means
The information you have requested is available to the public on the University’s
website. Therefore, under Section 21 of the Act, the University has not provided this
information. More information about this exemption is available on the Information
Commissioner’s Office’s websit
e. https://ico.org.uk/.
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The University of Birmingham
This documentation has been produced in response to a request made under the
terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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Except as otherwise permitted under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988,
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Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the terms of the legislation should be made
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