Hardship Fund - Russell Group

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Dear sir /madam

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please provide the number of hardship fund requests received, accepted, rejected, and the total amount awarded over the past 11 months including for what is available up to the current date in this month of November, categorised by month?

Separately, please also provide the total amount awarded for the year 2019.

Yours faithfully,

Ben Quinn

Br-Freedom-Of-Information, University of Nottingham

Dear Ben

Thank you for your request for information regarding the hardship fund. Your request was received on 24 November 2020 and is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The reference number of your request is 4093.

We will aim to respond to your request within twenty working days. Please note this is calculated from the following working day from receipt of your request.

Please be aware that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and following Government advice, the University is moving to online teaching and staff are working remotely, this may mean that access to some information held locally or on certain systems may not be readily available at this time.

Where it becomes clear that the information you have requested is not available due to the current situation, we will of course write to you and advise you of this.

I hope that this is of help. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any enquiries regarding this email.

Yours sincerely,
Karen Page

Information Compliance Officer – Freedom of Information
Registrar’s Department

Web: www.nottingham.ac.uk/freedom-of-informat...
Email: [email address]

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Br-Freedom-Of-Information, University of Nottingham

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Dear Ben

I am writing further to your request for information regarding the University's Student Hardship Fund. A search of our electronic and paper records has been completed and I can confirm that the information requested is held by the University.

In answer to your request:

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please provide the number of hardship fund requests received, accepted, rejected, and the total amount awarded over the past 11 months including for what is available up to the current date in this month of November, categorised by month?

Separately, please also provide the total amount awarded for the year 2019.

Attached is the data you have requested in relation to the University’s Student Hardship Fund. All the information relates to the date upon which the applications were received.

Where figures are less than 5 we do not specify the exact number as to do so would greatly increase the likelihood of individuals being identified, which would breach data protection regulations as these individuals have a reasonable expectation that their personal data will not be released.

We recognise that from the information provided here alone, it would be difficult to identify the individuals concerned. Nevertheless, under the remits of data protection regulations, we note that personal data constitutes that from which the Data Controller can identify an individual. Therefore there may be other information which you could obtain from the University, either through further Freedom of Information requests or other means, that could be used to identify the individuals here. The risk of this is greatly increased where numbers are less than 5 and it is for this reason that we do not specify such small numbers of individuals. Should an individual be identified then the University would be in breach of data protection regulations.

If you are unhappy with the way in which your request has been handled and wish to request a review of our response or to make a complaint, please see the attached information sheet and form.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any enquiries regarding this email.

Yours sincerely,
Karen Page

Information Compliance Officer – Freedom of Information
Registrar’s Department

Web: www.nottingham.ac.uk/freedom-of-informat...
Email: [email address]

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