Re: Your request for information concerning:

1. Provide a full breakdown of all funding, financial and "in kind" (rent
and rates rebates), provided to SNCBC by Sunderland City Council.

2. Please identify what funding is from direct Council streams and what
funding is from managed programmes that the Council is administering on
behalf of third parties.

3. Please clarify what due diligence / safeguards have been put in place
when handing these large sums of money to what appears to have been an
unincorporated association for 26 of the 27 years it has been operating
with your support.

4. Clarify if any of the staff engaged by SNCBC are / have been council
employees or are enrolled in the local government pension scheme through
the Council.
Council aims to provide available information promptly and in any event
within 20 working days, unless, exceptionally, there is a need to consider
whether the information is exempt from disclosure.

Please note that there may be a charge for providing copies of the
information. If the cost of complying with your request in full exceeds
£450, we will ask you to reconsider your request, or to pay a fee before
the information is supplied. If a charge or fee is payable we will let you
know.

I will contact you again soon in connection with your request.

Please quote the reference below if you contact the Council regarding this
request.

Customer Request Number: 14 04 43

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Dear P T Murphy

I refer to your recent request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.  I can confirm that the Council does hold some of
the information you have requested.  However, in order to satisfy your
request in full, we will exceed the statutory fees limit and as a result
we must therefore refuse your request.

I should explain that the Freedom of Information Act does not require a
local authority to supply information when the cost of providing this
exceeds the fees limit as prescribed in The Freedom of Information and
Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. This limit
covers approximately £450 or 2 ½ days of work in locating and providing
information. Having considered your request, it is clear that the limit
would be exceeded if we were to provide the information to you in full.

However, as part of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, where an
authority indicates refusal under fees limit as the reason for not
supplying the information requested, there is a duty on the authority to
assist by identifying the information that it is able to supply within the
fees limit. 

Therefore, I can confirm that we could provide you with the information
you have requested relating to the last 2 financial years.

If you would like me to provide the information as indicated, could you
please respond advising as such. 

Please note that the council will not be able to consider your request
further until your reply is received.

I hope this is satisfactory.  If, however, you are dissatisfied with our
response to your request for information, you can ask for the decision to
be reviewed in reply to this letter.  The review will be removed from the
Directorate and coordinated by the Council’s Information Governance
Officer.   A request for review should be directed, by email to
[1][Sunderland City Council request email], by post or by hand addressed
to; Information Governance Officer, Governance Services, Civic Centre, PO
Box 100, Sunderland SR2 7DN.

You are of course entitled to apply to the Information Commissioner at any
time, although the Commissioner will not usually investigate until the
public authority’s internal review procedure has been concluded.

Kind regards

 
Julia Harper
Business Development Officer
Office of the Chief Executive
Sunderland City Council
Room 3.92 - Civic Centre
Sunderland
SR2 7DN
Tel: 0191 5611573 
Email: [2][email address] 
 

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Dear P T Murphy

Thank you for your email dated 9 May 2014, which has since been logged as Freedom of Information Request reference number 14 05 32.

Kind regards

Julia Harper
Business Development Officer
Office of the Chief Executive
Sunderland City Council
Room 3.92 - Civic Centre
Sunderland
SR2 7DN
Tel: 0191 5611573
Email: [email address]

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