Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information Request

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Georgia Whitaker

Dear University of Hull,

Please could you send the following information as outlined in the Freedom of Information Act for the year ending 1st April July 2017, or for the financial year in which 1st April 2017 falls. If information for that period is not yet available, please use the most recent information you have. Please specify what period this information refers to at the beginning of your answer.
1. i) The number of individuals employed by the university who receive total remuneration* of £140,000 pa or more.
ii) The number of these individuals who are women.
2. The total remuneration* of the highest paid employee.
3. i) The number of individuals directly employed by the university who are paid less than the Living Wage of £8.45 per hour [or £9.75 per hour within Greater London].
ii) The number of these individuals (paid less than Living Wage) who are women.
iii) If available, the number of individuals employed by outside contractors to provide services at your university who are paid less than the Living Wage of £8.45 per hour [or £9.75 per hour within Greater London].
iv) Whether your university has a policy to require on-site staff working for external contractors to be paid Living Wage rates as a minimum.
4. i) The number of employees paid at exactly the National Minimum Wage, including those employed by outside contractors to work at your university.
ii) The number of these individuals (paid at exactly National Minimum Wage) who are women.
5. i) The number of apprentices employed by your university.
ii) The lowest remuneration* received by apprentices employed by your university.
6. The ratio between the total remuneration* of the highest-paid employee and the total remuneration* of the lowest-paid employee.
7. The ratio between the total remuneration* of the highest-paid employee and the total remuneration* of the median-paid employee.
*[adapted from the government's definition of remuneration (for local authority chief officers) under section 43 of the Localism Act 2011] Remuneration meaning:
(a)salary or, in the case of an individual engaged under a contract for services, payments made by the university to the individual those services,
(b)any bonuses payable by the university to the individual,
(c)any charges, fees or allowances payable by the authority to the individual,
(d)any benefits in kind to which the individual is entitled as a result of their office or employment,
(e)any increase in or enhancement of the individual's pension entitlement where the increase or enhancement is as a result of a resolution of the university, and
(f)any amounts payable by the university to the individual on the individual ceasing to hold office under or be employed by the university, other than amounts that may be payable by virtue of any enactment.
(g) calculated as full-time equivalent

Yours faithfully,

Georgia Whitaker

Dear University of Hull,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of University of Hull's handling of my FOI request 'Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information Request'.

I am writing to remind you that by law, I was due a response to my Freedom of Information request on August 4th. I am very disappointed that ten days after this deadline, I have not received any acknowledgement or information.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...

Yours faithfully,

Georgia Whitaker

Dan Palmer-Dunk, University of Hull

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Dear Ms Whitaker,

 

Please find our response to your Freedom of Information request embedded
(and emphasised in red text for easy reference) within your original email
below.  Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to you.

 

I note your request of 14 August for an internal review of this request,
however I trust that having now responded to your request you will no
longer require this to take place.  However, please do let me know if you
are not satisfied with this approach (or indeed the information released)
and I will ask for such a review to take place.

 

Your request is subject to the terms of the Freedom of Information Act
2000.  Under these terms, you have the right of complaint.  Your initial
course of action should be through the University’s own complaints
procedure.  In the first instance please contact [1][email address] or the
University Registrar and Secretary, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX
within 20 days from the date of this email.

 

If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or complaint,
you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at: The
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.  Phone: 0303 123 1113  Website: [2]www.ico.gov.uk. 
There is no charge for making an appeal.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Dan

 

 

[3]cid:image001.jpg@01D2EE69.89A71150 Dan Palmer-Dunk | Information Compliance Officer | Governance
& Compliance

University of Hull

Hull, HU6 7RX, UK

[4]www.hull.ac.uk

[5][email address] | 01482 466594

[6]cid:image002.png@01D2EE69.89A71150  [7]@UniOfHull    
[8]cid:image003.png@01D2EE69.89A71150  [9]/UniversityOfHull   
[10]cid:image004.png@01D2EE69.89A71150  [11]universityofhull

 

 

Dear Dan Palmer-Dunk,

Unfortunately your message contained no information if your attachment.
Could I please request that you re-send your attachment with the response to my FOI request?
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,

Georgia Whitaker

Dan Palmer-Dunk, University of Hull

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Good afternoon Ms Whittaker,

 

I didn’t send the information as an attachment, but rather added it to
your original email.  I have checked the What Do They Know page and the
email chain seems to have been cut off.  I include the responses below and
hope that you will be able to view it this time:

 

 

1.       i) The number of individuals employed by the university who
receive total remuneration* of £140,000 pa or more.

Response:   8.

 

ii) The number of these individuals who are women.

Response:   None.

 

2.       The total remuneration* of the highest paid employee.

Response:   £260,000.

 

3.       i) The number of individuals directly employed by the university
who are paid less than the Living Wage of £8.45 per hour [or £9.75 per
hour within Greater London].

Response:   189.

 

ii) The number of these individuals (paid less than Living Wage) who are
women.

Response:   143.

 

iii) If available, the number of individuals employed by outside
contractors to provide services at your university who are paid less than
the Living Wage of £8.45 per hour [or £9.75 per hour within Greater
London].

Response:   This information is not held.

 

iv) Whether your university has a policy to require on-site staff working
for external contractors to be paid Living Wage rates as a minimum.

Response:   No policy covering such matters is in place.

 

4.       i) The number of employees paid at exactly the National Minimum
Wage, including those employed by outside contractors to work at your
university.

Response:   0.

 

ii) The number of these individuals (paid at exactly National Minimum
Wage) who are women.

Response:   0.

 

5.       i) The number of apprentices employed by your university.

Response:   1.

 

ii) The lowest remuneration* received by apprentices employed by your
university.

Response:           The current apprenticeship is paid to a Grade HU03
with the Grade minimum: £16,619 and the Grade maximum: £18,412.  The
specific pay received by this individual is personal to them, and
therefore exempt from disclosure pursuant to section 40 of the Freedom of
Information Act (the Act).

 

Section 40 – Personal Information

The information you have requested is of such detail, and the number of
individuals concerned (both alleged complainants and offenders) that to
release the information would, or would be likely to, allow those with
partial knowledge of the circumstances of an incident to identify those
involved.  As such, the information constitutes the personal data of the
relevant individuals, and is exempt from release pursuant to section
40(2), by virtue of section 40(3)(a)(i) of the Act.

 

Personal information about individuals other than the requestor is exempt
under this section if disclosure would contravene any of the data
protection principles.  Disclosure such as is requested would not
reasonably be expected by, and would be potentially detrimental to, the
individuals concerned.  In the circumstances of this case disclosure is
also not necessary to satisfy any legitimate public interest.  To release
the information would therefore breach the first data protection principle
by being unfair.

 

 

6.       The ratio between the total remuneration* of the highest-paid
employee and the total remuneration* of the lowest-paid employee.

Response:   The University does not hold a ratio calculation.  The lowest
paid employee receives remuneration of £14,767 and (as above) the highest
paid receives £260,000.

 

 

7.       The ratio between the total remuneration* of the highest-paid
employee and the total remuneration* of the median-paid employee.

Response:   The University does not hold a ratio calculation, nor a
calculation of the median employee pay.

 

Regards,

 

Dan

 

[1]cid:image001.jpg@01D3078E.025D3650 Dan Palmer-Dunk | Information Compliance Officer | Governance
& Compliance

University of Hull

Hull, HU6 7RX, UK

[2]www.hull.ac.uk

[3][email address] | 01482 466594

[4]cid:image002.png@01D3078E.025D3650  [5]@UniOfHull    
[6]cid:image003.png@01D3078E.025D3650  [7]/UniversityOfHull   
[8]cid:image004.png@01D3078E.025D3650  [9]universityofhull

 

 

From: Dan Palmer-Dunk
Sent: 23 August 2017 11:37
To: '[FOI #416484 email]'
<[FOI #416484 email]>
Subject: RE: FoI 1284

 

Dear Ms Whitaker,

 

Please find our response to your Freedom of Information request embedded
(and emphasised in red text for easy reference) within your original email
below.  Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to you.

 

I note your request of 14 August for an internal review of this request,
however I trust that having now responded to your request you will no
longer require this to take place.  However, please do let me know if you
are not satisfied with this approach (or indeed the information released)
and I will ask for such a review to take place.

 

Your request is subject to the terms of the Freedom of Information Act
2000.  Under these terms, you have the right of complaint.  Your initial
course of action should be through the University’s own complaints
procedure.  In the first instance please contact [10][email address] or the
University Registrar and Secretary, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX
within 20 days from the date of this email.

 

If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or complaint,
you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at: The
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.  Phone: 0303 123 1113  Website: [11]www.ico.gov.uk. 
There is no charge for making an appeal.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Dan

 

 

[12]cid:image001.jpg@01D2EE69.89A71150 Dan Palmer-Dunk | Information Compliance Officer | Governance &
Compliance

University of Hull

Hull, HU6 7RX, UK

[13]www.hull.ac.uk

[14][email address] | 01482 466594

[15]cid:image002.png@01D2EE69.89A71150  [16]@UniOfHull    
[17]cid:image003.png@01D2EE69.89A71150  [18]/UniversityOfHull   
[19]cid:image004.png@01D2EE69.89A71150  [20]universityofhull

 

 

Dear Dan Palmer-Dunk,

Thank you for your response.
Could you please provide the median salary? Despite not having records at hand, universities such as Kings College have provided this which I would greatly appreciate from yourselves.

Yours sincerely,

Georgia Whitaker

Dan Palmer-Dunk, University of Hull

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Ms Whittaker,

I have spoken to our HR department and have the median salary figure as £34,956.

I hope this helps.

Many thanks,

Dan

Dan Palmer-Dunk | Information Compliance Officer | Governance & Compliance
University of Hull
Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
www.hull.ac.uk
[email address] | 01482 466594
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