Vice Chancellor - salary and expenses
Dear Open University,
Could you please provide information about the Vice Chancellor’s annual salary, travel expenses (including flights and accommodation), bonuses, line by line list of all expenses occurred by the Vice Chancellor, and the ratified minutes of the institution's remuneration committee.
Please provide the data from the 1st January 2021 - 31st December 2021 and the 1st January 2022 - 31st December 2022 and the 1st January 2023 - present. As for the committee minutes, please provide them for every meeting in 2021 and 2022 and every meeting so far in 2023.
I look forward to receiving your response within a maximum of 20 days as required under the freedom of information act.
Please handle this FOI in accordance with the Freedom of information act.
Yours faithfully,
Jade Harper
Dear Jade,
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your request for information under
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Your request is receiving our attention and you will hear from us again
within 20 working days at the latest.
Yours sincerely
Danielle Pyper, Information Rights Co-Ordinator
Information Rights Team, University Secretary’s Office
Dear Jade,
We are currently processing your request but we do need some further
clarification in order to identify exactly what you are requesting before
we can respond to you .
• You have requested "Line by line list expenses"– do you wish us to
include all items processed through the internal expenses system
including items such as books and educational publications or are you
seeking expenses only linked to travel?
• Are you seeking any recorded description/purpose of why the expense
was incurred i.e. travel to London for X meeting?
• What type of travel costs are you seeking – your refer only to
flights but are you seeking all recorded travel costs (including for
example taxi costs).
On a final note how do you wish the information provided? Do you want each
item listed individually with the date and expense or can we group
together expenses for each year and provide you with 2021 trains combined
etc?
I look forward to receiving your response and we will answer your request
as soon as possible after we have received your clarification. But as
prescribed by the Freedom of Information Act, a request is not valid
unless there is sufficient detail supplied to enable identification and
location of the information sought (s. 1(3) of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000).
Your request will not be processed further until we hear from you. If we
do not hear from you within 2 months from the date of this notification,
we will assume you are no longer interested in the processing of your
request, and will close your request file.
Daniel Webb
Daniel Webb, Senior Manager Information Rights (he/him/his)
Information Rights Team, University Secretary’s Office
t: 01908 653994
e: [email address]
a: The Open University, Level 5, 217 Charles Pinfold Building, Walton
Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
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