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Dear Seymour

Your information request - IR1-4776330462
Thank you for your email dated 05.02.2025.

How we will consider your request

We’re going to consider your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA). The FOIA gives us 20 working days to respond, but we’ll come
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From: Seymour Borealis <[FOI #1233900 email]>
Sent: 05 February 2025 20:51
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Communication with Leng review

Dear General Medical Council, Please provide all emails you hold that have
been sent or received from: 1) Prof Gillian Leng 2)
Leng. Review@ dhsc. gov. uk 3) Any other representative or administrator
of the Leng Review Please provide emails which

Dear General Medical Council,

Please provide all emails you hold that have been sent or received from:

1) Prof Gillian Leng

2) [1][email address]

3) Any other representative or administrator of the Leng Review

Please provide emails which mention the term “Leng Review”.

Yours faithfully,

Seymour Borealis

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Dear Seymour Borealis,

Your information access request- IR1-4776330462

Thank you for your email dated 5 February 2025 asking for the information
below.

Please provide all emails you hold that have been sent or received from:

1) Prof Gillian Leng

2) [1][email address]

3) Any other representative or administrator of the Leng Review

Please provide emails which mention the term “Leng Review”.

This is being considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

To help us locate the emails requested, could you please provide a
specific timeframe or date range? This will help in the search of the
information requested.

Kind regards,

Information Access Team

General Medical Council

[2]www.gmc-uk.org

[3][email address]

General Medical Council

We work with doctors, physician associates (PAs), anaesthesia associates
(AAs), those they care for and other stakeholders to support good, safe
patient care across the UK. We set the standards doctors, PAs, AAs and
their educators need to meet, and help them achieve them. If there are
concerns these standards may not be met or that public confidence in
doctors, PAs or AAs may be at risk, we can investigate, and take action if
needed.

This email may contain privileged or confidential information which should
only be used for the purpose for which it has been sent.

If you are not the addressee or have received this email in error, please
do not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on it or any
attachments. Please email the sender and then immediately delete it.

The General Medical Council is a charity registered in England and Wales
(1089278) and in Scotland (SC037750)

You are welcome to contact us in Welsh. We will respond in Welsh, without
this causing additional delay.

_________________________________________________________________

Y Cyngor Meddygol Cyffredinol

Rydym yn gweithio gyda meddygon, cymdeithion meddygol (PA), cymdeithion
anesthesia (AA), y rhai y maent yn gofalu amdanynt a rhanddeiliaid eraill
i gefnogi gofal da a diogel i gleifion ledled y DU. Rydym yn gosod y
safonau y mae angen i feddygon, cymdeithion meddygol, cymdeithion
anesthesia a’u haddysgwyr eu bodloni, ac yn eu helpu i’w cyrraedd. Os oes
pryderon na fydd y safonau hyn yn cael eu bodloni o bosibl, neu y gallai
hyder y cyhoedd mewn meddygon, cymdeithion meddygol neu gymdeithion
anesthesia fod mewn perygl, gallwn ymchwilio, a chymryd camau os oes
angen.

Efallai fod y neges e-bost hon yn cynnwys gwybodaeth freiniol neu
gyfrinachol, y dylid ei defnyddio at y diben cafodd ei hanfon ar ei gyfer
yn unig.

Os nad chi sydd i fod i'w dderbyn, neu os ydych chi wedi cael yr e-bost
hwn mewn camgymeriad, peidiwch â’i ddarllen, ei argraffu, ei
ail-drosglwyddo, ei storio na gweithredu gan ddibynnu ar y neges nac
unrhyw atodiadau. Anfonwch yr e-bost at yr anfonwr ac yna ei ddileu ar
unwaith.

Mae’r Cyngor Meddygol Cyffredinol yn elusen gofrestredig yng Nghymru a
Lloegr (1089278) ac yn yr Alban (SC037750)

Mae croeso i chi gysylltu â ni yn Gymraeg. Byddwn ni’n ymateb yn Gymraeg,
heb i hyn achosi oedi ychwanegol.

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Dear Seymour Borealis,

Your information access request- IR1-4776330462

This is a follow up email regarding the email sent on the 18 February
2025.

Please could you provide a specific timeframe or date range regarding the
emails requested. This will help in the search for the information
requested.

Thank you for your time.

Kind regards,

Information Access Team

General Medical Council

[1]www.gmc-uk.org

[2][email address]

From: FOI
Sent: 18 February 2025 11:22
To: '[FOI #1233900 email]' <[FOI #1233900 email]>
Subject: Information request-IR1-4776330462

Dear Seymour Borealis,

Your information access request- IR1-4776330462

Thank you for your email dated 5 February 2025 asking for the information
below.

Please provide all emails you hold that have been sent or received from:

1) Prof Gillian Leng

2) [3][email address]

3) Any other representative or administrator of the Leng Review

Please provide emails which mention the term “Leng Review”.

This is being considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

To help us locate the emails requested, could you please provide a
specific timeframe or date range? This will help in the search of the
information requested.

Kind regards,

Information Access Team

General Medical Council

[4]www.gmc-uk.org

[5][email address]

General Medical Council

We work with doctors, physician associates (PAs), anaesthesia associates
(AAs), those they care for and other stakeholders to support good, safe
patient care across the UK. We set the standards doctors, PAs, AAs and
their educators need to meet, and help them achieve them. If there are
concerns these standards may not be met or that public confidence in
doctors, PAs or AAs may be at risk, we can investigate, and take action if
needed.

This email may contain privileged or confidential information which should
only be used for the purpose for which it has been sent.

If you are not the addressee or have received this email in error, please
do not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on it or any
attachments. Please email the sender and then immediately delete it.

The General Medical Council is a charity registered in England and Wales
(1089278) and in Scotland (SC037750)

You are welcome to contact us in Welsh. We will respond in Welsh, without
this causing additional delay.

_________________________________________________________________

Y Cyngor Meddygol Cyffredinol

Rydym yn gweithio gyda meddygon, cymdeithion meddygol (PA), cymdeithion
anesthesia (AA), y rhai y maent yn gofalu amdanynt a rhanddeiliaid eraill
i gefnogi gofal da a diogel i gleifion ledled y DU. Rydym yn gosod y
safonau y mae angen i feddygon, cymdeithion meddygol, cymdeithion
anesthesia a’u haddysgwyr eu bodloni, ac yn eu helpu i’w cyrraedd. Os oes
pryderon na fydd y safonau hyn yn cael eu bodloni o bosibl, neu y gallai
hyder y cyhoedd mewn meddygon, cymdeithion meddygol neu gymdeithion
anesthesia fod mewn perygl, gallwn ymchwilio, a chymryd camau os oes
angen.

Efallai fod y neges e-bost hon yn cynnwys gwybodaeth freiniol neu
gyfrinachol, y dylid ei defnyddio at y diben cafodd ei hanfon ar ei gyfer
yn unig.

Os nad chi sydd i fod i'w dderbyn, neu os ydych chi wedi cael yr e-bost
hwn mewn camgymeriad, peidiwch â’i ddarllen, ei argraffu, ei
ail-drosglwyddo, ei storio na gweithredu gan ddibynnu ar y neges nac
unrhyw atodiadau. Anfonwch yr e-bost at yr anfonwr ac yna ei ddileu ar
unwaith.

Mae’r Cyngor Meddygol Cyffredinol yn elusen gofrestredig yng Nghymru a
Lloegr (1089278) ac yn yr Alban (SC037750)

Mae croeso i chi gysylltu â ni yn Gymraeg. Byddwn ni’n ymateb yn Gymraeg,
heb i hyn achosi oedi ychwanegol.

References

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4. http://www.gmc-uk.org/
5. mailto:[email%20address]

Dear Seymour Borealis,

Your information access request- IR1-4776330462

Thank you for your email.

I refer to previous correspondence asking if you could provide a specific
timeframe or date range regarding the emails requested. This will help in
the search for the information requested.

Kind regards,

Information Access Team

General Medical Council

[1][email address]

From: Seymour Borealis <[2][FOI #1233900 email]>
Sent: 08 March 2025 11:52
To: FOI <[3][email address]>
Subject: RE: Information request-IR1-4776330462

Dear FOI, November 2024 Please note that this request is now overdue Yours
sincerely, Seymour Borealis -----Original Message----- Dear Seymour
Borealis, Your information access request- IR1-4776330462 This is a follow
up email regarding the

Dear FOI,

November 2024

Please note that this request is now overdue

Yours sincerely,

Seymour Borealis

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Dear Seymour Borealis,

Thank you for your email.

To confirm, you request correspondence with the Leng Review as follows:

Emails between the GMC and either Professor Leng, the Leng Review or any
other representative of the Review, which mention the term 'Leng Review',
from 1 November 2024.

I'd be grateful if you could confirm, and we will get back to you as soon
as possible.

Thank you for your assistance.

Kind regards,

Information Access Team

General Medical Council

[1]www.gmc-uk.org

[2][email address]

From: Seymour Borealis <[3][FOI #1233900 email]>
Sent: 14 March 2025 11:37
To: FOI <[4][email address]>
Subject: RE: Information request-IR1-4776330462

Dear FOI, Provide from: NOV 1 2024 To The date of the FOI request As soon
as possible. Seymour Borealis -----Original Message----- Dear Seymour
Borealis, Your information access request- IR1-4776330462 Thank you for
your email. I refer to previous

Dear FOI,

Provide from:

NOV 1 2024

To

The date of the FOI request

As soon as possible.

Seymour Borealis

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Dear Seymour Borealis,

Your information access request- IR1-4776330462

Thank you for your email dated 24 March 2025 asking for the clarified
information below.

1) Emails between the GMC and either Professor Leng, the Leng Review or
any other representative of the review. from 1 November 2024.

THEN SEPARATELY

2) Any OTHER (to or from) GMC emails held that are not necessarily with
those people, that mention “Leng” or “Leng Review” From 1/11/24.

We have considered your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOIA).

Please note that while you indicated that focus should be placed on the
first part of your request if a cost exemption will be reached for the
request, we are writing to confirm that an exemption applies to the
request as a whole. Given this, we would like to confirm if you would like
us to proceed with the first part of the request only.

In line with the above, we can’t provide the information you requested.
This is because of the amount of data you’ve asked for and the work that
would be involved. Under the FOIA there’s an exemption for requests where
it would cost the public authority more than £450 (the ‘appropriate
limit’) to process - equivalent to two and half days’ (18 hours or 1080
minutes) work.

The cost of your request

To estimate the cost, we can take into account locating, retrieving and
extracting the information requested.

We did a basic search to identify the number of search results based on
the request above and estimate about 8000 plus search results from 1
November 2024 to 5 February 2025 that would need to be reviewed.

If it took us just 5 minutes to locate, retrieve and extract each of the
search results, it would take us about 667 hours to process your request.
Based on an hourly rate of £25 per hour (which is set by the Freedom of
Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004) this would cost
£16,667 which would exceed the appropriate limit of £450 (18 hours).

The exemption

Under the FOIA, the specific exemption which we believe applies is at
section 12. This states that we are not required to comply with a request
if we estimate that the cost of doing so would exceed the appropriate
limit.

Advice and assistance

In line with the information above, we may be able to provide the first
part of the information requested that is emails between the GMC and
either Professor Leng, the Leng Review or any other representative of the
review from the 1 November 2024 within the cost limit.

Your right to appeal

I'm sorry I couldn’t provide the information you requested. If you would
like to appeal this decision, please set out your reasons in writing to
[1][GMC request email]. Please note that we will only usually consider
appeals received within 40 working days of our response. You can also
appeal to the [2]Information Commissioner, the regulator of the FOIA and
DPA.

Kind regards,

Information Access Team

General Medical Council

[3]www.gmc-uk.org

[4][email address]

General Medical Council

We work with doctors, physician associates (PAs), anaesthesia associates
(AAs), those they care for and other stakeholders to support good, safe
patient care across the UK. We set the standards doctors, PAs, AAs and
their educators need to meet, and help them achieve them. If there are
concerns these standards may not be met or that public confidence in
doctors, PAs or AAs may be at risk, we can investigate, and take action if
needed.

This email may contain privileged or confidential information which should
only be used for the purpose for which it has been sent.

If you are not the addressee or have received this email in error, please
do not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on it or any
attachments. Please email the sender and then immediately delete it.

The General Medical Council is a charity registered in England and Wales
(1089278) and in Scotland (SC037750)

You are welcome to contact us in Welsh. We will respond in Welsh, without
this causing additional delay.

_________________________________________________________________

Y Cyngor Meddygol Cyffredinol

Rydym yn gweithio gyda meddygon, cymdeithion meddygol (PA), cymdeithion
anesthesia (AA), y rhai y maent yn gofalu amdanynt a rhanddeiliaid eraill
i gefnogi gofal da a diogel i gleifion ledled y DU. Rydym yn gosod y
safonau y mae angen i feddygon, cymdeithion meddygol, cymdeithion
anesthesia a’u haddysgwyr eu bodloni, ac yn eu helpu i’w cyrraedd. Os oes
pryderon na fydd y safonau hyn yn cael eu bodloni o bosibl, neu y gallai
hyder y cyhoedd mewn meddygon, cymdeithion meddygol neu gymdeithion
anesthesia fod mewn perygl, gallwn ymchwilio, a chymryd camau os oes
angen.

Efallai fod y neges e-bost hon yn cynnwys gwybodaeth freiniol neu
gyfrinachol, y dylid ei defnyddio at y diben cafodd ei hanfon ar ei gyfer
yn unig.

Os nad chi sydd i fod i'w dderbyn, neu os ydych chi wedi cael yr e-bost
hwn mewn camgymeriad, peidiwch â’i ddarllen, ei argraffu, ei
ail-drosglwyddo, ei storio na gweithredu gan ddibynnu ar y neges nac
unrhyw atodiadau. Anfonwch yr e-bost at yr anfonwr ac yna ei ddileu ar
unwaith.

Mae’r Cyngor Meddygol Cyffredinol yn elusen gofrestredig yng Nghymru a
Lloegr (1089278) ac yn yr Alban (SC037750)

Mae croeso i chi gysylltu â ni yn Gymraeg. Byddwn ni’n ymateb yn Gymraeg,
heb i hyn achosi oedi ychwanegol.

References

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Dear Seymour Borealis,

Your Information Request – IR1-4861991955

Thank you for your email dated 1^st April 2025.

How we will consider your request

We are going to consider your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA). The FOIA gives us 20 working days to respond, but we’ll come
back to you as soon as we can.

Your request will be allocated to a member of the team. If you have any
queries please email [1][GMC request email].

Yours Sincerely,

Information Access Team

General Medical Council

3 Hardman Street

Manchester M3 3AW

From: Seymour Borealis <[FOI #1233900 email]>
Sent: 01 April 2025 14:57
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Information request- IR1-4776330462

Dear FOI, Thanks Please proceed with the first part of the request only
Yours sincerely, Seymour Borealis -----Original Message----- Dear Seymour
Borealis, Your information access request- IR1-4776330462 Thank you for
your email dated 24 March

Dear FOI,

Thanks

Please proceed with the first part of the request only

Yours sincerely,

Seymour Borealis

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Dear Seymour,

Further to the below, I am contacting you to let you know that I am
currently dealing with your FOI request.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to respond within the 20 working day
period, but please be assured that I am progressing your request and will
provide you with a final response as soon as I am able to.

Kind regards,

Henna Janghir

Information Access Officer

General Medical Council

3 Hardman Street

Manchester

M3 3AW

Email: [1][email address]

Tel: 0161 923 6710

Website: [2]www.gmc-uk.org

From: FOI
Sent: 07 April 2025 11:20
To: 'Seymour Borealis' <[FOI #1233900 email]>
Subject: RE: Information request- IR1-4776330462

Dear Seymour Borealis,

Your Information Request – IR1-4861991955

Thank you for your email dated 1^st April 2025.

How we will consider your request

We are going to consider your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA). The FOIA gives us 20 working days to respond, but we’ll come
back to you as soon as we can.

Your request will be allocated to a member of the team. If you have any
queries please email [3][GMC request email].

Yours Sincerely,

Information Access Team

General Medical Council

3 Hardman Street

Manchester M3 3AW

From: Seymour Borealis <[4][FOI #1233900 email]>
Sent: 01 April 2025 14:57
To: FOI <[5][email address]>
Subject: Re: Information request- IR1-4776330462

Dear FOI, Thanks Please proceed with the first part of the request only
Yours sincerely, Seymour Borealis -----Original Message----- Dear Seymour
Borealis, Your information access request- IR1-4776330462 Thank you for
your email dated 24 March

Dear FOI,

Thanks

Please proceed with the first part of the request only

Yours sincerely,

Seymour Borealis

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