
INFORMATION COMPLIANCE TEAM
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD
Ref. FOI/20211012/3 &
FOI/20211017/1
Reply to request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
Your ref
Emails of 12 and 17 October 2021
Request of 12 October: Also, Alex Kaiserman Revision
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Request of 17 October: A list of all lectures that were recorded by the philosophy faculty
between 2010 and 2019 that were made before COVID-19. Please clearly indicate when
these were recorded if possible, for example, Anita Avramides Philosophy of Mind Hilary
Term 2016.
Dear Ajan Spedding,
I write in reply to your emails requesting the above information.
In formulating this response, we have considered your requests submitted since 2 August 2021 as a whole,
rather than individually, since they each seek similar data from the Classics and Philosophy Faculties.
We consider that the time limit of 18 hours has already been exceeded through complying with your
previous requests. We have been advised by the departments who have undertaken the work that they have
already spent approximately 18 hours on complying with your previously submitted requests. In calculating
this figure, we have included the time spent on determining whether the information was held, locating the
information, and retrieving and extracting the information.
We are therefore refusing your requests submitted on 12 and 17 October under section 12 of the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA). Section 12 of the FOIA allows a public authority to refuse a request for information if
the authority estimates that the cost of complying with it would exceed the appropriate limit. The
appropriate limit for Universities is £450, which corresponds to a time limit of 18 hours or just over two
working days, because the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees)
Regulations 2004 (the ‘Regulations’) fix staff costs at £25 an hour.
As mentioned above, in reaching this conclusion, we have aggregated all of your requests received by the
University between 2 August and 17 October 2021. Section 12(4) of the FOIA, read together with Regulation
5 of the Regulations, allows a public authority to aggregate two or more requests seeking the same or similar
information where the requests are made by the same person, and where the requests are received within
60 consecutive working days of each other.
INTERNAL REVIEW
If you are dissatisfied with this reply, you may ask the University to review it by e-mailing
xxx@xxxxx.xx.xx.xx. A request for internal review should be submitted no later than 40 working days from the date of this letter.

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THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER
If, after the internal review, you are still dissatisfied, you have the right under FOIA to apply to the Information
Commissioner for a decision as to whether your request has been dealt with in accordance with the FOIA. You
can do this online using the
Information Commissioner’s complaints portal.
Yours sincerely
Information Compliance Team