Dear Sam,
 
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request
 
Thank you for your email dated 22 August 2023 requesting the following
information regarding CAG application 22/CAG/0129:
 

 1. A copy of the formal CAG advice provided to the project relating to
purposes

 1. All documents supplied by the applicant to the Confidentiality
Advisory Group to inform decision making for any initial request or
later modifications for the project

 
Your request is being handled under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act
and has been referred to the appropriate personnel for investigation. We
will provide you with a response as soon as possible, but no later than 20
September 2023.
 
We ask you to note that we are currently experiencing unexpected staff
shortages which may cause delays to our response time. In instances where
we are not able to provide you with a response within the 20-working day
deadline, we will contact you to provide you with an update.
 
Kind regards,
Emma
 
Freedom of Information
Health Research Authority
Second Floor | 2 Redman Place | Stratford | London | E20 1JQ
T. 0207 104 8249 | 0207 104 8153
E. [1][email address]
W. [2]www.hra.nhs.uk
 
 

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Dear Sam,
 
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request
 
We are writing in response to your request for information, under the FOI
Act, dated 22 August 2023 requesting the following information regarding
CAG application 22/CAG/0129:
 

 1. A copy of the formal CAG advice provided to the project relating to
purposes

 1. All documents supplied by the applicant to the Confidentiality
Advisory Group to inform decision making for any initial request or
later modifications for the project

 
Our response:
 

 1. copies of the formal advice of CAG to that project relating to
purposes

 
Please note that CAG do not provide formal advice on applications related
to purpose, outside that of formal CAG meetings. It is the responsibility
of the sponsor to determine the purpose of the CAG application and set
that out to CAG within the application. Where CAG raise concerns about the
stated purpose these will be noted in the minutes of the CAG review. This
application was submitted for research purposes (as noted by the research
application form and justifications set out within it, and the associated
application to a Research Ethics Committee). CAG raised no concerns about
the stated purpose.
 

• The formal CAG minutes for the initial CAG meeting can be found
[1]here
• The formal CAG minutes for the response to provisional considerations
will be published in the August 2023 sub-committee minutes, which
should be publicly available in September.

 1. all documents supplied by the applicant to the Confidentiality
Advisory Group to inform decision making for any initial request or
later modifications for that project.

• Please see attached PDF files which contain the information you have
requested. We ask you to note that all personal information has been
redacted in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.

• We would like to highlight that there is one document that we are
currently unable to issue. This document is titled CAG application
letter of support 08.08.2022 and was submitted to us with a number of
security property restrictions that have prevented us from being able
to redact the document. To rectify this issue, we requested that an
open version of the document be submitted to us and we hope to be in a
position to issue this document within the next few days. We apologise
for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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further clarification, please let us know.
 
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Kind regards,
Susannah
 
Freedom of Information
Health Research Authority
Second Floor | 2 Redman Place | Stratford | London | E20 1JQ
T. 0207 104 8249 | 0207 104 8153
E. [4][email address]
W. [5]www.hra.nhs.uk
 
 

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Dear Sam,
 
Further to our email dated 19 September 2023, please find attached the
document titled CAG application letter of support 05.08.22.
 
We apologise that we were unable to provide this as part of our original
response to your FOI request.
Kind regards,
Susannah
 
Information Governance and Complaints Manager
Health Research Authority
HRA Centre Manchester | 3 Piccadilly Place, London Road | Manchester |
M1 3BN
T. 0207 104 8249
E. [1][email address]
W. [2]www.hra.nhs.uk
 
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From: FOI <[email address]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 11:48 AM
To: Sam from medConfidential <[FOI #1017319 email]>
Subject: HRA acknowledgement of FOI request - 2324/FOI/041
 
 
Dear Sam,
 
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request
 
Thank you for your email dated 22 August 2023 requesting the following
information regarding CAG application 22/CAG/0129:
 

 1. A copy of the formal CAG advice provided to the project relating to
purposes

 1. All documents supplied by the applicant to the Confidentiality
Advisory Group to inform decision making for any initial request or
later modifications for the project

 
Your request is being handled under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act
and has been referred to the appropriate personnel for investigation. We
will provide you with a response as soon as possible, but no later than 20
September 2023.
 
We ask you to note that we are currently experiencing unexpected staff
shortages which may cause delays to our response time. In instances where
we are not able to provide you with a response within the 20-working day
deadline, we will contact you to provide you with an update.
 
Kind regards,
Emma
 
Freedom of Information
Health Research Authority
Second Floor | 2 Redman Place | Stratford | London | E20 1JQ
T. 0207 104 8249 | 0207 104 8153
E. [9][email address]
W. [10]www.hra.nhs.uk
 
 

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