Correspondence between the Vice-Chancellor of the university and Priestley College
Dear University of Leicester,
This is a formal freedom of information and as such you are required to respond in full within 20 working days.
Under the freedom of information act please can you provide a copy of all email chains between the Vice-Chancellor of your university and Priestley College (a college in Warrington in Cheshire that is part of another academy trust called The Challenge Academy Trust) between the 1st April 2023 and present. I understand that you will need to redact personal information and also potentially other information.
Additionally, under the freedom of information act please can you provide a copy of all email chains between the Vice-Chancellor of your university and James Gresty (James is the principal of Priestley College) between the 1st April 2023 and present. I understand that you will need to redact personal information and also potentially other information. Please include emails sent to James’s work email as well as James’s personal email as long as they were sent from the Vice-Chancellor’s work email address.
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I look forward to receiving your response within a maximum of 20 days as you are required to do under the freedom of information act.
Yours faithfully,
Amy Woollcott
Dear Amy,
I write to acknowledge receipt of your request, dated 13^th September
2023, made under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please note the effective date of the request, i.e. date of receipt of
your request by the University of Leicester for processing, is 14^th
September 2023 and that the latest date by which the University must
respond under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is 11^th
October 2023.
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Regards,
Shelley Chamberlain.
Planning, Legal and Governance Services
University of Leicester | University Road | Leicester | LE1 7RH | UK
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Dear Amy,
I write from the University of Leicester in response to your request,
dated 13^th September 2023, made under the provisions of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
Your request:
“Under the freedom of information act please can you provide a copy of all
email chains between the Vice-Chancellor of your university and Priestley
College (a college in Warrington in Cheshire that is part of another
academy trust called The Challenge Academy Trust) between the 1st April
2023 and present. I understand that you will need to redact personal
information and also potentially other information. Additionally, under
the freedom of information act please can you provide a copy of all email
chains between the Vice-Chancellor of your university and James Gresty
(James is the principal of Priestley College) between the 1st April 2023
and present. “
In response:
Nil. Information not held.
If you have any concerns or wish to complain or appeal about any aspect of
this response then in the first instance please contact the University's
Data Protection Officer by email [1][email address]
Please be aware that it is also your legal right under Section 50 of the
Freedom of Information Act, to apply to the Information Commissioner for a
decision whether a request for information made to the University has been
dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Act. It should be
noted that there is a requirement that there will be no undue delay in
making the application and there is an expectation that the complainant
will have exhausted the University's internal complaints procedure.
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Alternatively, you can submit your complaint online on the following link
[2]https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
Kind regards,
Faye Singh
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