Income from China
Dear London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to ask what proportion of the school's income comes from China (whether from Chinese students, research grants or other means).
Yours faithfully,
Mr D L Taylor
LSHTM ServiceDesk
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Re: Freedom of Information request - Income from China
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act. We will process your request as soon as possible and
will respond within 20 working days.
Information on how we process Freedom of Information requests is available
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Freedom of Information team
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Dear LSHTM Servicedesk,
A response to my Freedom of Information Request has been delayed. By law, you should normally have responded promptly by 28th August, 2020. Please could you advise when you plan to respond.
Yours sincerely,
Dominic Taylor
LSHTM ServiceDesk
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Your request Freedom of Information request - Income from China has now
been completed.
Dear Dominic,
With apologies for our delay in responding to your Freedom of Information
request, we now write to provide the following response:
LSHTM receives funding from a very large number of sources through
research projects, and academic and non-academic collaborations directly
with LSHTM or through our network of units and project groups as well as
through philanthropic donations, tuition fees and other means. Records are
separately maintained by different departments, units or project groups
depending on the nature of the funding. Ordinarily, we would ask if you
could clarify which type of funding you would like details on so that we
can narrow our search, as generating a response to this request would
exceed the cost limit set out in Section 12 of the Freedom of Information
Act. However, with the additional information you have provided in your
email to our director of 8 September 2020, we have determined that your
request is vexatious in accordance with section 14 of the Freedom of
Information Act, noting that your request appears to relate to one of our
professors directly and that you make various unfounded accusations
including the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. As such we
have concluded that your request is disproportionate and unjustified.
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Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Team
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Dear London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
I am very sorry to read that you have chosen this path.
My freedom of information request was not directed at a specific professor as you claim. The email to which you refer was sent long after the legal limit for you to reply to my early freedom of information request had expired. Though referencing this freedom of information request, the email's subject was a separate matter (which I was hoping you would assure me was unrelated) concerning public statements made by one of your academic staff the same day. If you believed my freedom of information request to be disproportionate or required further information then you could easily have done so during the response time limit. You did not.
I will not appeal your decision as you have provided more than adequate information for me to draw my own conclusions, as others may also chose to do.
Yours faithfully,
Dominic Taylor
LSHTM ServiceDesk
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Re: Re: Freedom of Information request - Income from China
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act. We will process your request as soon as possible and
will respond within 20 working days.
Information on how we process Freedom of Information requests is available
on the LSHTM website at :
[1]https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/organisa...
We may need to contact you again if we require further information from
you in order to process your request.
We will also contact you as soon as possible if we determine that a fee
will be payable for reprographics costs (such as photocopying or printing)
or postage costs associated with your request.
Please do not hesitate to contact us by reply to this email if you have
any questions relating to your request.
Regards,
Freedom of Information team
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Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT UK | [2]www.lshtm.ac.uk
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