Dear Mr Griffin

This is to acknowledge receipt of your request for information below and to let you know it is being processed.

We'll get back to you as soon as we can, but in any case within 20 working days from 02/10/2017

In the meantime, if you wish to add any further details or check on progress, please reply to this message, without altering the 'Subject:' line, so that we can track your input and respond promptly.

Yours sincerely,

Sinead Latham

Information Management & Policy Services (IMPS), University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AH
t: +44 (0)118 378 8981 www.reading.ac.uk/foia

Dear Mr Griffin,
 
We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request.
 
We can confirm that we do hold the information specified in your request.
Our responses are given below.
 
A)
 
Lowest paid: £10, 418.17
 
Highest paid: £264,810
 
B)
 
Salary of highest paid man:
 
£264,810 (Vice Chancellor)
 
Salary of highest paid woman:
 
This figure is being withheld under section 40(2) of FOIA. Section 40(2)
of the FOIA allows a public authority to withhold information under the
FOIA when the information requested is personal data relating to someone
other than the requestor, and its disclosure would breach any of the Data
Protection principles. In this case we believe that the disclosure of
information in respect of potentially identifiable individuals would not
be within their reasonable expectations and as such would be unfair and in
breach of the first data protection principle which requires personal data
to be processed fairly and lawfully.
 
We have taken into account that the Vice Chancellor’s salary (as the
highest paid male) is already publically available and that disclosure of
this figure, also routinely contained within year end accounts, is
therefore within the reasonable expectations of the person whose data it
relates to.
 
The same does not apply to the highest paid female; due to the potential
for others (whether internal or external to the University) to identify
who this data may relate to, and therefore their exact salary, we have
withheld this information. Section 40 is an absolute exemption and
therefore does not require me to conduct a public interest test.
 
You may find some useful related information contained within our
financial statements located here (the most recent to be published towards
the end of 2017):
 
[1]http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/financ...
 
We are required to include details of our complaints procedures, including
your rights to apply to the Information Commissioner.  The procedure is
detailed in our Freedom of Information and Environmental Information
Regulations policy on the web at
[2]www.reading.ac.uk/freedom-of-information-policy
 
If we are unable to resolve any complaint, you can complain to the
Information Commissioner, the independent body who oversees the access to
information regimes:
 
Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
 
Email: [3][email address]
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Rebecca Daniells
IMPS Officer
 
Information Management & Policy Services (IMPS), University of Reading,
Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AH
[4][University of Reading request email]    t: +44 (0)118 378 8981   
[5]www.reading.ac.uk/foia