Number of animals used in experiments

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Dear University of Warwick,

I am requesting the following information under the provisions of the Freedom Of Information Act 2000.

I request to know if your university conducts experiments upon living animals.

If yes to the above question, how many living animals are currently held on your premises?

How many living animals were used in experiments between 01/01/2011 and 01/01/2012?

What species of animal were the experiments conducted upon?

Which departments of your premises were the experiments conducted in?

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Luke Beevers

infocompliance, Resource, University of Warwick

Thank you for your email which has been received by the University Legal
Compliance Officer. The University undertakes to respond to Freedom of
Information requests within 20 working days and to Data Protection
requests within 40 calendar days. If you are seeking general legal advice,
please contact the University Legal Adviser,
[1][email address].

 

Thank you

Helen Wollerton

Administrative Officer (Legal Compliance)

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infocompliance, Resource, University of Warwick

Dear Mr Beevers,

Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to your query. We anticipate being able to respond to you on Monday 30 April 2012.

Legal Compliance Team | Deputy Registrar's Office
University House | University of Warwick | Coventry | CV4 8UW

________________________________________
From: Luke Beevers [[FOI #111751 email]]
Sent: 28 March 2012 16:59
To: infocompliance, Resource
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Number of animals used in experiments

Dear University of Warwick,

I am requesting the following information under the provisions of
the Freedom Of Information Act 2000.

I request to know if your university conducts experiments upon
living animals.

If yes to the above question, how many living animals are currently
held on your premises?

How many living animals were used in experiments between 01/01/2011
and 01/01/2012?

What species of animal were the experiments conducted upon?

Which departments of your premises were the experiments conducted
in?

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Luke Beevers

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Dear infocompliance, Resource,

You have now almost exceeded the statutory time limit for responding to my request. I will give you until midnight on Monday to respond to my request, which was entirely reasonable and no other university has had trouble replying promptly to. Any further delay will lead to the Information Commissioner being informed.

Yours sincerely,

Luke Beevers.

infocompliance, Resource, University of Warwick

Thank you for your email which has been received by the University Legal
Compliance Officer. The University undertakes to respond to Freedom of
Information requests within 20 working days and to Data Protection
requests within 40 calendar days. If you are seeking general legal advice,
please contact the University Legal Adviser,
[1][email address].

 

Thank you

Legal Compliance Team

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Mr Jonathon Proctor left an annotation ()

Footnote :

the university of Warwick are required by law to release the information that mr beevers has requested

would your university feels follow the law and actually release the Information that Mr Beevers has requested

it is noted the Request was received on the 28th so under that basis the date of release by law would of been today 27th April 2012

Dear infocompliance, Resource,

Further to Mr. Proctor's annotation, I am still willing to allow you to release the information midnight on Monday even though this exceeds the statutory time limit. As noted earlier, any further delaly will lead to the Information Commissioner being informed.

Yours sincerely,

Luke Beevers.

Dear infocompliance, Resource,

I write simply to remind you that I must receive the information by midnight tonight. You have already well overexceeded the maximum statutory time limit for responding to the request. I am anxious to receive the information.

Yours sincerely,

Luke Beevers.

depregoffice1, Resource, University of Warwick

Dear Mr Beevers,

 

Thank you for your e-mail on 28^th March 2012 requesting the following
information, which is below with our response:

 

I request to know if your university conducts experiments upon living
animals.

Yes

 

If yes to the above question, how many living animals are currently held
on your premises?

 

The current approximate number is 3000

 

How many living animals were used in experiments between 01/01/2011 and
01/01/2012?

 

This information is recorded through our annual returns to the Home
Office. The number of animals used in a regulated procedure (as defined by
the Home Office) between 01/01/2011 and 01/01/2012 was 4794. 

 

What species of animal were the experiments conducted upon?

 

Rats, mice, hamsters and frogs (Xenopus species)

 

Which departments of your premises were the experiments conducted in?

 

The University declines to answer this question and relies on Section 38
 of the Freedom of Information Act.

 

I trust that this information is helpful to you.  Should you require any
clarification, please contact me.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Darren Wallis

Head of Corporate Governance

 

 

Darren Wallis |  Head of Corporate Governance |  Deputy Registrar's Office

University House  |  University of Warwick  |  Coventry  |  CV4 8UW

 

Dear University of Warwick,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of University of Warwick's handling of my FOI request 'Number of animals used in experiments'.

First of all, you have already broken the law by exceeding the statutory time limit of 20 working days without giving any reason as to why the limit has been broken.

I was willing to allow until 30 April for you to respond, which you did indeed do, but I was expecting more than simply very vague responses.

The request though regards the refusal to provide me information regarding where the experiments were conducted.

You use s. 38 of the Act to refuse this information but no other university has sought to use this to refuse me this type of information. I am wondering why Warwick University is. I am not asking for names of any specific individuals and I am happy for you to redact any names of any researchers in your reply but I don't see why you have to refuse to tell me the name of the department involved in the research.

Could you, therefore, conduct an internal review of this particular part of my FOI request on the basis that I believe information is being unlawfully held from me.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/nu...

Yours faithfully,

Luke Beevers.

Sloan, Ken, University of Warwick

Dear Mr Beevers

FOI - Number of animals used in experiments

Further to your email to the University dated 30 April 2012, in which you
request an Internal Review into the way in which the University has
responded to your recent Freedom of Information request, I write to
confirm that in accordance with our procedures, I have carried out the
review.

Whilst the University has a justified concern about the health and safety
of its staff, having formally reviewed the response issued to you on 30
April, I believe that we can provide you with the information you are
seeking in this regard as this information may be ascertained from that
already within the public domain. 

Please find our response below:

·         Which departments of your premises were the experiments
conducted in?

Regulated procedures are conducted by the School of Life Sciences and the
Warwick Medical School.

The University also wishes to clarify that it does not have shared
research facilities of this nature with other institutions.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Ken Sloan

 

Ken Sloan  |  Registrar

University House  |  University of Warwick  |  Coventry  |  CV4 8UW

T:  024 7652 3704

F:  024 7652 4578

W: [1]www.warwick.ac.uk

E:  [email address]

 

 

 

 

 

 

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