Cost to Rebrand the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit

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Dear Medical Research Council,

I am making a request for information via the Freedom of Information Act.

Could you please advise me on the full costs of re branding the MRC unit in Southampton from:

'Epidemiology Resource Centre'

to

'MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit'

Please include all costs, eg. meetings & consultations, signage, opening ceremonies etc.

Please include related invoices receipts.

Yours faithfully,

Craig Jones

Dear Craig Jones,

Thank you for your FOI request.

We will look into what information we have available and get back to you.

Tiffany

Tiffany Lay
Senior Information Officer
Medical Research Council

www.mrc.ac.uk

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Dear Craig Jones,

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request that you submitted on 10
September 2011.

 

During the last five years, under Professor Cooper’s leadership, the
Epidemiology Resource Centre has evolved away from a "Resource Centre"
into a research-driven programme of work, where the quality and scale of
the scientific output clearly matched the expectations of an
MRC Research Unit.  This evolution was endorsed by the MRC's Council and
the resource centre was therefore re-named "The MRC Lifecourse
Epidemiology Unit".  This name was developed by the centre internally, no
external agency was involved, and recognises the Unit's past achievements
and sets the expectations for the future quality of scientific output and
international standing. 

 

Costs for the re-naming of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Lifecourse
Epidemiology Unit were borne by both the MRC and the University of
Southampton, a breakdown is provided below:

 

Total MRC and University of Southampton Expenditure:         £1,610.24

 

Total MRC Expenditure:                                         
                        £1,081.41

Commemorative plaque                                             
          £    253.01

MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit signage                              
£    568.00

Unveiling curtain kit                                                  
         £    260.40

 

Total University of Southampton Expenditure:                         £ 
  528.83

Tea and coffee        
                                                         Â£      29.75

Buffet lunch for 35
people                                                    £     499.08

 

Please find attached to this e-mail, copies of the invoices as requested. 
Please note that some information has had to be redacted from three
invoices under Section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act as it relates
to personal information, some information has also been redacted from one
invoice under Section 41 of the Freedom of Information Act as it relates
to information provided in confidence.

 

I hope that you find the information we have been able to provide to you
to be useful and if you have any questions, or would like any further
information, please do let me know. However, if you are not satisfied that
this response has been handled appropriately, you may appeal using the
MRC's complaints procedure. Details are on the MRC website at:
[1]www.mrc.ac.uk/index/about/about-contact/about-complaints_procedure.htm. 
You may contact the MRC Complaints Officer by email at
[2][email address], or write to The Complaints
Officer, Medical Research Council, 14th Floor, One Kemble Street, London
WC2B 4AN.

 

If, following the Complaints Officer's reply, you remain dissatisfied, you
may contact the Information Commissioner.  Details of how to take your
complaint further are at [3]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk.

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

Tiffany

 

Tiffany Lay

Senior Information Officer

Medical Research Council

 

[4]www.mrc.ac.uk

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