Links with the arms industry
Dear University of York,
I am writing to request information on the financial relationships the university holds with the arms trade (specifically, but not limited to BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, QinetiQ, Rolls Royce, GKN, Smiths Group, Cobham, VT Group, Elbit, Finmeccanica , Halliburton, L3 Communications, Northrup Grumman and Raytheon). Please include the following information:
1) The total amount, in pounds sterling, that the university has received in research funding, industrial consultancy fees, and industrial research fees from arms trade companies in the last five financial years. Details should be broken down for each company, year-by-year for the last five financial years and also broken down for each department, year by year for the last five financial years.
2) The total amount, in pounds sterling, that the university has received in research funding, industrial consultancy and industrial research fees from the Ministry of Defence over the last five financial years. Details should be broken down, year-by-year for the last five financial years.
3) A portfolio statement for the fund(s) the university has investments in. If you do not have a copy of this, please send me a list of the names of the fund(s) and the corresponding management companies. Details should be broken down, year-by-year for the last five financial years.
4) Please also confirm if any shares are held in arms trade companies as part of a pension fund or endowment, either directly or indirectly through an externally managed fund. Details should be broken down, year-by-year for the last five financial years.
Yours faithfully,
Rachel Melly
Dear Rachel Melly,
Thank you for your email dated and received by the University on 6 October
2015, in which you have submitted a request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Your request is being considered and you will receive the information
requested within the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by
the (Freedom of Information) Act, subject to the information being held
and not being exempt. A response should accordingly be with you no later
than 3 November 2015.
Yours sincerely,
Charles Fonge
Records Management
Information Services
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
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Dear Rachel,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 6 October 2015
concerning defence industry links. I can provide the University's response
which is given in the attached pdf file.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Charles
Records Management
Information Services
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
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Dear Records Management,
Thank you for your response to my request. For questions 2 and 3 can you please specify which departments received the funds, as asked in the original request. Which departments recieved which amounts of money?
Yours sincerely,
Rachel Melly
Dear Rachel,
Thank you for your email about the further breakdown of the data by
department. I can provide the University's response, which is given in the
attached pdf file.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Charles
Dear Charles,
Thank you again for your responses to my request. I have just noticed that the data for consultancy/other services rendered is missing for the academic year 2011/12. Can you please clarify why this is?
Yours sincerely,
Rachel Melly
Dear Rachel,
Thank you for your email. I hope this finds you well.
I've had a look back at the data and the answer for 2011/12 was nil in
terms of consultancy/other services. The two tables were generated from
pivots and as 2011/12 was nil, instead of including the year and showing
nil explicitly, the headings are based only the data that derived from the
request criteria (rather than from an absence of data). I do apologise: if
I'd have spotted this I would have included a note or column to clarify.
Thanks for getting back to me. I hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Charles
Dear Charles,
Thank you for checking that and getting back to me so quickly. I think I now have all of the information I was looking for. Thank you for all of your help.
Yours sincerely,
Rachel Melly
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