Dear Max Colbert

I acknowledge receipt of your email received by this office on 23 July 2021.

Your request will now be dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and has been allocated reference FOI21-295 which should be quoted in all correspondence. We will respond to your request within 20 working days starting the next working day after receipt, therefore you can expect to receive a response no later than 23 August 2021.

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and, if that is the case, we will let you know. A fees notice will be issued to you, and you will be required to pay before we will proceed to deal with your request.

Yours sincerely

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Prifysgol Caerdydd
Ebost : [email address]

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University Secretary's Office
Cardiff University
Email: [email address]

The University welcomes correspondence in Welsh or English. Corresponding in Welsh will not lead to any delay.

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Dear Max Colbert,

Further to your email of 23 July 2021 regarding FOI21-295 Chinese Partnerships, in order for us to process your request we need to understand more clearly the information you are seeking and we should be grateful if you could clarify the following:

Please specify what you mean by "any details you have".
Please specify a date range.

Please be aware that the legal response time of 20 working days for responding to your request will not continue until we receive this clarification from you.

Yours sincerely

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Dear Max Colbert

I am writing in response to your Freedom of Information request dated 23
July 2021.

For ease of reference, I have reproduced your question(s) below and set
out our corresponding response(s).

I'm writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) to ask that
you please release any details you have, or let me know if you've been
working with the companies listed below. Either partnerships,
professorships, research agreements, graduate schemes, or any other such
arrangement informal or formal.

Huawei

Dahua

Hikvision

Uniview

Deepglint

Tencent

[You further clarified in your email dated 10 August 2021]:

Any details you have would be in reference to the types of agreements
listed directly below that.

The date range would be between 2017-2021

Having undertaken reasonable searches for the information requested we can
inform you of the following research agreements:

Huawei Research Funding

Tencent Research Funding

Any further information you have requested is not routinely collated
centrally, and where it is held, is likely to be at school or departmental
level.  As there are 24 Academic Schools and approximately 30
administrative departments it would take considerably more than 18 hours
to collate the information you require.  The University is not obliged to
spend more than 18 hours (as set by the Freedom of Information and Data
Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004) collating such
information and accordingly the exemption provided by section 12(2) of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 will apply.

I trust this information satisfies your enquiry. Should you feel
dissatisfied with this response or the way in which your request was
handled you can request an Internal Review. This should be made in writing
within 40 working days of the date of this email. Please provide your
unique reference number of your request, information on why you are
dissatisfied and any detail you would like us to consider as part of the
Internal Review process. Email your request to
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Compliance and Risk who will be responsible for overseeing the review.

If you remain dissatisfied following the outcome of your complaint, you
have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for
consideration. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at the
following address: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House,
Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Cardiff University. If you require further assistance please feel free to
contact me.

Kind regards

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