Line-item breakdown of £46,000 collected from Master's of Bioscience Enterprise students
Dear University of Cambridge,
Please provide a line-item breakdown (that is, a list by individual item of expenditure) of the disbursement of the £46,000 that was collected from the 23 students on the University of Cambridge’s 2010/11 M. Phil. in Bioscience Enterprise (MBE) programme “for travel and other expenses associated with the course” [MBE Handbook 2010/11] and that was referred to generally as ‘the £2,000 fund’. Multiples of the same item may be aggregated to a maximum of £100.
If possible, please supply the data as a soft copy in Microsoft Excel. If that is not possible, please supply the data in a table-based format. Please do not use PDFs except as a last resort.
Additionally, please answer the following question: was any of the £46,000 used to make good a shortfall from the equivalent fund collected from students on the 2009/10 MBE programme?
Yours faithfully,
Dr Nicola Rowe
Dear Dr Rowe,
This is to acknowledge receipt of your request for information. Your reference number is FOI-2011-193. We will respond on or before 5 September 2011.
Regards,
FOI Team
Freedom of Information Office
University of Cambridge
Registrary's Office, The Old Schools
Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN
T: (01223 7)64142
F: (01223 3)32332
E: [email address]
Dear Dr Rowe,
Further to your request for information, please find enclosed the Universitys response.
Regards,
FOI Team
Freedom of Information Office
University of Cambridge
Registrary's Office, The Old Schools
Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN
T: (01223 7)64142
F: (01223 3)32332
E: [email address]

Richard Taylor left an annotation ()
This response reveals astonishing and incredible lax accounting within the University of Cambridge, it states the requested information is not held:
"The University is unable to provide you with a line-item breakdown of this expenditure because this information is not held. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 entitles an individual to request recorded information held by a public authority; it does not further compel that authority to create new information in order to answer a request. A detailed breakdown is impossible to generate in this case because not all of the money is straightforwardly spent against particular invoices for products or services."
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Richard Taylor
Cambridge
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Richard Taylor left an annotation ()
A response to this request was originally sent on 23 August 2011.
That response has been removed because the university included personal information, a response to a subject access request, along with the FOI response.
The message above contains a replacement attachment provided to the requestor by the university.
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Richard - WhatDoTheyKnow.com volunteer