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Memoranda of understanding with partners

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Dear Middlesex University,

Please can you disclose a PDF of each memorandum of udnerstanding you have with each partner London-based partner institution listed on your website here https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/academic-...

By London based I mean those whose campus, building or head office is located in Greater London.

Yours faithfully,
Dom

John Gilchrist, Middlesex University

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Dear Mr Schade,

 

I acknowledge your request for information received on 4 September 2018.

 

Your request is being considered and if the information is held you will
receive the information requested within the statutory timescale of 20
working days as defined by the Freedom of Information Act 2000, subject to
the information not being exempt.

 

I may contact you if the request needs to be clarified; this is to ensure
that we provide you with the information you require.

 

Please note that some information you have requested may not be provided
to you; this will only be information that can be withheld by law.  In
most cases the reasons will be explained to you along with your copy of
any information that can be released to you.

 

If for any reason we are unable to provide you with a full response within
the statutory timescale, we will contact you explaining the reasons for
this and giving a revised date by which we will reply.

 

Please note that the information you supplied with your request will be
retained on file by the University for the purposes of processing your
request and statistical analysis and audit. Your personal information will
only be accessed by authorised University staff and will be held in
accordance with the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.

 

Best wishes,

John.

 

John Gilchrist

Data Protection Officer

 

Middlesex University

The Burroughs

Hendon

London NW4 4BT

T: +44(0) 208 411 4061

E: [1][email address]

W: [2]mdx.ac.uk

 

[3]cid:image001.png@01D2D630.5B558030

 

For further information as to how we process personal data:
[4]http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/policies/p...

 

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John Gilchrist, Middlesex University

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Dear Mr Schade,

 

Please see attached the response to your FOI request made on 4 September
2018.

 

Best wishes,

John

 

John Gilchrist

Data Protection Officer

 

Middlesex University

The Burroughs

Hendon

London NW4 4BT

T: +44(0) 208 411 4061

E: [1][email address]

W: [2]mdx.ac.uk

 

[3]cid:image001.png@01D2D630.5B558030

 

For further information as to how we process personal data:
[4]http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/policies/p...

 

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Dear John Gilchrist,

Your response says that financial information is sensitive. Fine. So don't release financial information. Black it out and disclose the rest of the memorandums. Please can you have someone more senior look at this.

Yours sincerely,

Dominik Schade

John Gilchrist, Middlesex University

Dear Dominik,

Just to confirm you are asking for an internal review of my decision to withhold the agreements due to reasons of commercial sensitivity?

Thanks,
John.

John Gilchrist
Data Protection Officer
  
For further information as to how we process personal data: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/policies/p...

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Dear John Gilchrist,

I want an internal review as offered by your FOI policy, because your decision to withhold the whole of the documents in full is not lawful.

Yours sincerely,

Dominik Schade

Martina Williams, Middlesex University

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Dear Mr Schade

 

Thank you for your email, received on 2 October 2018, in which you
requested a review of the decision made in relation to your FOI request.

 

I am writing to you to advise you that I will conduct the internal
review.  I am a Director at Middlesex University and I was not party to
the original decision on whether to release the information. 

 

I will review the manner in which the application for information was
dealt with and I am empowered to either uphold or overturn the original
decision.

 

Once I have conducted the internal review, I am required to notify you as
to the final decision made, within four weeks of receiving the request.

 

You will receive my response on or before Tuesday 30 October 2018.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

David Malpas

Director of Student Affairs

Student and Legal Affairs

 

Thami Nomvete, Middlesex University

Dear Mr Schade

 

I refer to your FOI request of 26^th September and your request for an
internal review. Further to the University’s letter to you dated 5^th
October, I am writing on behalf of the University to let you know that we
are still in the process of going through the relevant agreements to
identify appropriate redactions. We are reviewing over 20 agreements. I
then have to consult with relevant individuals within the University and
possibly with the contracting partners, so this process is taking longer
than anticipated. In the circumstances, we expect to disclose the
information you have requested with appropriate redactions by 13^th
November at the latest.

 

 

Kind regards

Thami Nomvete

Senior Legal Advisor

Student and Legal Affairs

Middlesex University

The Burroughs, Hendon

NW4 4BT

Tel. 0208 411 4124

(Extn: 14124)

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confidential or privileged information. If you have received this message
in error, please send it back to us,  immediately and permanently delete
it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message
or in any attachment. 

 

Martina Williams, Middlesex University

Dear Mr Schade,

 

Please can you send me a postal address in order that I can send the
documents to you?

 

Kindest regards,

 

Martina

 

Martina Williams

Student and Legal Affairs Officer

Student and Legal Affairs

Middlesex University

The Burroughs | Hendon | London | NW4 4BT

0208 411 2302 | [1][email address]

 

From: Martina Williams
Sent: 05 October 2018 16:05
To: '[FOI #517790 email]'
<[FOI #517790 email]>
Cc: David Malpas <[email address]>; Thami Nomvete <[email address]>
Subject: FOI - Internal Review

 

Dear Mr Schade

 

Thank you for your email, received on 2 October 2018, in which you
requested a review of the decision made in relation to your FOI request.

 

I am writing to you to advise you that I will conduct the internal
review.  I am a Director at Middlesex University and I was not party to
the original decision on whether to release the information. 

 

I will review the manner in which the application for information was
dealt with and I am empowered to either uphold or overturn the original
decision.

 

Once I have conducted the internal review, I am required to notify you as
to the final decision made, within four weeks of receiving the request.

 

You will receive my response on or before Tuesday 30 October 2018.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

David Malpas

Director of Student Affairs

Student and Legal Affairs

 

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Dear Martina,

I asked for the documents in PDF and section 11 of the FOI Act says this is how you have to give them.

Yours sincerely,
Dominik Schade

Martina Williams, Middlesex University

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Dear Mr Schade

 

Following your request for a review, we have reconsidered the decision
sent to you.

 

You made the following request:

 

‘Please can you disclose a PDF of each memorandum of understanding you
have with each partner London-based partner institution listed on your
website here
[1]https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/academic-... By
London based I mean those whose campus, building or head office is located
in Greater London.’

 

In response you received a University decision stating that the Memorandum
of Understanding were commercially sensitive.  You replied by requesting
copies of the agreements with any such commercially sensitive information
redacted.  

 

We hold two Memoranda of Understanding, both of which are enclosed.  The
only redactions made are in relation to personal information of third
parties, which we have redacted on the basis that personal data is exempt
from disclosure under s40 of the Act.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

David Malpas

Director of Student Affairs

Student and Legal Affairs

 

 

 

 

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