PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL
Ref: GC.SN FOI
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Tel: 0207 202 0789
E-mail: xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
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19 March 2024
Dear Sir/Madam,
Re: Request for information
Thank you for your email of 3 March 2024, in which you request information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
Before I deal with your request, it may assist if I set out the RCVS’s obligations as a public authority.
Under the FOIA, members of the public are entitled to request information from public authorities. The
FOIA covers any recorded information held by that public authority. The FOIA does not oblige a public
authority to supply copy documents (although where it falls within the scope of the FOIA it should
supply information contained within those documents) nor does it oblige a public authority to provide
information that is not recorded in some form.
Now turning to your email of 3 March 2024, your request for information is as follows:
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding
the Royal Col ege of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Statutory Membership Examination for
foreign veterinarians for the past five years.
Specifically, I would like to request the fol owing information for each of the past five years
(2019-2023):
1. The total number of foreign veterinarians who appeared for the RCVS Statutory
Membership Examination.
2. The total number of individuals who cleared the first written part of the examination.
3. The total number of individuals who cleared the second practical part of the
examination.
4. The total number of individual who became ful y registered with the RCVS.
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 3 Waterhouse Square, 138 – 142 Holborn, London EC1N 2SW
T 020 7222 2001
F 020 7222 2004
E xxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx www.rcvs.org.uk
We have set out the data you have requested in the table below:
Year Number of
Number who
Number who
The total number of individuals
exam
passed written
passed practical
who became ful y registered
Candidates
exam
exam
with the RCVS. (Al candidates
who have passed the written
and practical exams are
eligible to register with the
RCVS but the individual may
not decide to do this)
2019
16
7
7
7
2020
26
6
5
5
2021
65
12
12
11
2022
90
20
15
14
2023
121
29
26
23
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you may:
a. Write to Eleanor Ferguson, Registrar of the RCVS, at the RCVS offices (or email:
x.xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx) b. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, you may write to the Information
Commissioner, who is appointed to consider such complaints at the address shown below:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire,
SK9 5AF
Further information on how to complain is available on the Information Commissioner’s Office website:
https://ico.org.uk/
Yours sincerely,
Gemma Crossley
Solicitor
Head of Professional Conduct
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 3 Waterhouse Square, 138 – 142 Holborn, London EC1N 2SW
T 020 7222 2001
F 020 7222 2004
E xxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx www.rcvs.org.uk
