Dear The Mercian Trust,

Your financial accounts for 2018, 2019, 2020 detail staff severance payments. Please provide the role and location for the following payments:

1) Date 18/5/20, amount £20,000
2) Date 4/3/20, amount £30,000
3) Date 13/6/19, amount £2614
4) Date 16/4/18, amount £18,000
5) Date 13/3/18, amount £809

Yours faithfully,

Mr Davis

Dear The Mercian Trust,

Thank you for the considered reply and I accept your answer

Are you able to breakdown the following severance payments to the individual Academy's?

1) Date 18/5/20, amount £20,000
2) Date 4/3/20, amount £30,000
3) Date 13/6/19, amount £2614
4) Date 16/4/18, amount £18,000
5) Date 13/3/18, amount £809

Yours faithfully,

Mr Davis

Dear The Mercian Trust,

Each Academy in the Trust would have had to make financial accounts so I am not asking for any more information then what would of been available before the Academies joined the Trust.

I am sure Mercian Trust must agree that the purpose of an Academy joining the Trust must not be to obscure information from the Public!

If the Mercian Trust will not make the information available maybe Mercian Trust could provide the number of severance payments which were made by each individual Academy over the last three years?

My research is interested in the growing trend of severance payments by Academies

Yours sincerely,

Mr Davis