Miss Zoe Allwood
FOI Manager
William Wright
By email
Reference: FOI-2021-317
21 April 2021
Dear Mr Wright,
Your request was received on 4 April 2021 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).
You asked:
1. Number of applicants, offers made, and their respective previous university, degree and
grades for the LLM program for the 2018, 2019, and 2020 years.
2. LLM applicantion statistics by college for the 2018, 2019, 2020 years.
3. Number of applicants, offers made, and their respective previous university, degree, and
grades for the PhD Law program for the 2018, 2019, and 2020 years.
4. Number of applicants, offers made, and their respective previous university, degree, and
grades for the PhD History program for the 2018, 2019, and 2020 years.
Please find attached information to answer both this and your subsequent request under the Act, our
ref. FOI-2021-318, which contains the same or similar questions. The data for PhD in Law is given as
Certificate of Postgraduate Study in Legal Studies, being the first year of the PhD in Law course.
The University has not supplied the grades of each applicant because, coupled with the other
information, it believes that individuals could be identified as a result. In presenting the information in
this way, the University is engaging the exemption at section 40(3A)(a) of the Act because release in
the precise format requested would breach the first data protection principle (the fair, lawful and
transparent processing of personal data) as set out in the UK General Data Protection Regulation. This
part of section 40 confers absolute exemption under the Act.
With regard to question 2 (in both requests), Colleges do not make offers at postgraduate level; the
data therefore represents applicants’ first and second choice preference Colleges as well as the
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Colleges indicating that they would give a place to an applicant holding an offer should they be
successful in meeting their offer conditions.
Please note that the attached document should not be copied, reproduced or used except in
accordance with the law of copyright.
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a
complaint or request an internal review of this decision, you should contact us quoting the reference
number above. The University would normally expect to receive your request for an internal review
within 40 working days of the date of this letter and reserves the right not to review a decision where
there has been undue delay in raising a complaint. If you are not content with the outcome of your
review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the
Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints
procedure provided by the University. The Information Commissioner may be contacted at: The
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
(https://ico.org.uk/).
Yours sincerely,
Zoe Allwood
