Dear Milla,

Thank you for your enquiry dated 24 April 2024, received by us on the same date, concerning senior management salaries. Your request will be handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Before we proceed with your request, I would be grateful if you could clarify if you would like to receive information regarding the University of Essex, as you have referred to ARU below.

Please note that the 20 working days allowed by the Act for our response won’t start counting down until we hear back from you with your clarification. If you do not reply within 2 months of the date of this email then we will consider your query to be closed.

If you have any questions about this do please contact me.

Regards,

Alex Pinagli BA (Hons) MA (Hons)
Information Assurance Assistant
Freedom of Information Team
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
University of Essex

E [University of Essex request email]
E [email address]
► www.essex.ac.uk
T +44 1206 876027

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Dear Milla,

Thank you for your email dated 24 April 2024, providing clarification on your request. Please accept our apologies for the delay in our response. I can now confirm that the 20 working day countdown has been restarted.

We will come back to you as soon as we can and within 20 working days (23 May 2024). In the meantime if you have any questions about your request, please do let me know.

Regards,

Alex Pinagli BA (Hons) MA (Hons)
Information Assurance Assistant
Freedom of Information Team
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
University of Essex

E [University of Essex request email]
E [email address]
► www.essex.ac.uk
T +44 1206 876027

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Dear Milla,

Thank you for your enquiry dated 24 April 2024, received by us on the same
date, concerning senior management salaries. Your request is being handled
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please see our response below.

Your request

Please can you provide the salaries of management at University of Essex,
including the VC, DVC, PVC/dean of faculties and heads of schools

Our response

Information regarding the Vice Chancellor’s remuneration can be found on
our webpages, please see the below list:

[1]https://www.essex.ac.uk/staff/freedom-of...

[2]https://www.essex.ac.uk/governance-and-s...

For information relating to the DVC, PVC/dean of faculties and heads of
schools. I can confirm that the University holds this
information. However, we are unable to provide it to you because the
University considers that this information is exempt from disclosure on
the grounds set out in Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act.
This information contains personal data of those to whom they relate and
disclosing this information would breach one of the data protection
principles in the Data Protection Act 2018. We are therefore refusing to
provide this information under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000. This exemption covers the personal data of third parties where
complying with the request would breach any of the principles in the Data
Protection Act and provides that:

(2)        Any information to which a request for information relates is
also exempt information if-

 a. It constitutes personal data which do not fall within subsection (1)
and
 b. Either the first or the second condition below is satisfied.

(3A)      The first condition is that the disclosure of the information to
a member of the public otherwise than under this Act –

 a. Would contravene any of the data protection principles, or
 b. Would do so if the exemptions in section 24(1) of the Data Protection
Act 2018 (manual unstructured data held by public authorities) were
disregarded.

3B)       The second condition is that the disclosure of the information
to a member of the public otherwise than under this Act would contravene
Article 21 of the GDPR (general processing: right to object to
processing).

In this case we believe that disclosure of the information would result in
a breach of the first data protection principle, as stated in the Data
Protection Act 2018 (the DPA):

            Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully and, in
particular, shall not be processed unless-

 a. At least one of the conditions in Schedule 2 is met, and
 b. In the case of sensitive personal data, at least one of the conditions
in Schedule 3 is also met”
 c.  

The information in question is personal data, therefore, for the
processing to be fair and lawful it must meet at least one of the
conditions in Schedule 2 and one of the conditions in Schedule 3 of the
DPA. In this case we do not believe that any of the Schedule 3 conditions
are applicable to the processing (ie the disclosure) of the personal data
in question, which leads us to conclude that it would be unlawful to
disclose the information requested.

This exemption is not subject to the public interest test. Further
guidance can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website at
[3]https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/offici....

Information on senior staff salary bandings can be found in our
[4]Financial Statements 2022-23, on page 57.

I hope you find this information useful but if you have any questions
about the data, please let me know. You would also be welcome to contact
our Comms Team on 01206 872400 and I have copied them into this email so
that they are aware of your interest. Should you feel dissatisfied with
this response or the way in which your request has been handled you can
request an Internal Review. This should be made in writing within 40
working days of the date of this email and should be addressed to the
Registrar & Secretary, Mr Bryn Morris, through [5][email address].
If you remain dissatisfied following the outcome of your complaint you
have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for
consideration (see [6]https://ico.org.uk). 

Regards,

Alex Pinagli BA (Hons) MA (Hons)

Information Assurance Assistant

Freedom of Information Team

Office of the Vice-Chancellor

University of Essex

E [7][University of Essex request email]

E [email address]

► [8]www.essex.ac.uk

T +44 1206 876027

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