Von Opel Foundation

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Dear University of Oxford,

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act and concerns research funding provided by the Von Opel Foundation for COVID-19 research. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/?f%5Bf_contributors...

I would like to request the following information:

1. Details of all grants given by the Von Opel Foundation to Oxford University since the start of 2018 this could include, but not be limited to, the value of each grant, the date of the grant award, the name of the grant recipient(s), a summary of the grant, a copy of the grant agreement and details of the duration of the grant.

2. All e-mail correspondence and communications between the Von Opel Foundation and Professor Sunetra Gupta between March 1 2020 and the date this request is received.

Yours faithfully,

Peter Geoghegan

FOI, University of Oxford

Dear Mr Geoghegan,

Thank you for your freedom of information request to the University of Oxford.

Subject to any clarification required, the University will reply to your request within the statutory deadline of 20 working days, starting from the day after receipt of your request.

Yours sincerely

FOI Oxford

Information Compliance Team
Vice Chancellor’s and Registrar’s Office |University of Oxford
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FOI, University of Oxford

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Dear Mr Geoghegan,

 

I attach our reply to your FOI request of 12 February.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Information Compliance Team

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University of Oxford
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Peter Geoghegan

Dear FOI,

The final section of your response - the one page document outlining the research agreement - is now very delayed. It was due to be sent to me by March 26. Can you please send it on?

Yours sincerely,

Peter Geoghegan

FOI, University of Oxford

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Apologies for the delay. We are experiencing very high levels of workload.
We will chase this up.

 

 

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Information Compliance Team

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Dear FOI,

Thanks - I just wanted to check on the status of this? It's now two weeks late.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Geoghegan

FOI, University of Oxford

Dear Mr Geoghegan,

We are doing our best.

We hope to be able to respond by the end of next week.

Our apologies again for the delay.

Yours sincerely

Information Compliance Team
Assurance Directorate University of Oxford
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD
T. 01865 280299 | https://compliance.admin.ox.ac.uk/

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Dear FOI,

Thanks for your response - I just wanted to check on the status of this?

Yours sincerely,

Peter Geoghegan

Dear FOI,

Hello, I wanted to check the status of this?

Yours sincerely,

Peter Geoghegan

Dear FOI,

The fulfilment of this request is now seriously delayed - under the terms of the FOI act consulting with a third party is not a justification for a late response but I was willing to allow this in good faith. But the completion of your response - the contract signed with the Von Opel foundation - is now very late and my last two requests for information have not been responded to. If there is not a response by COB tomorrow (Tuesday April 27) I will have to make an official complaint to the ICO.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Geoghegan

Peter Geoghegan

Dear FOI,

The fulfilment of this request is now seriously delayed - under the terms of the FOI act consulting with a third party is not a justification for a late response but I was willing to allow this in good faith. But the completion of your response - the contract signed with the Von Opel foundation - is now very late and my last two requests for information have not been responded to.

I will have to make an official complaint to the ICO.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Geoghegan

FOI, University of Oxford

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Dear Mr Geoghegan,

 

I attach the letter missing from our response of 12 March.

 

We have redacted personal information under section 40(2) of the Freedom
of Information Act. Section 40(2) provides an exemption from disclosure
for information that is the personal data of an individual other than the
requester, where disclosure would breach any of the data protection
principles in Article 5 of the GDPR. We consider that disclosure would
breach the first data protection principle, which requires that personal
data is processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. Disclosure
would be unfair to the individuals concerned, because it would be contrary
to their reasonable and legitimate expectations. They would not reasonably
expect that information about them would be made public under the FOIA
without their consent. Consequently, there would be no lawful basis to
disclose the information under Article 6.1(a) of the GDPR.

 

I apologise for the delay in sending you this. Since the beginning of the
year, the Information Compliance Team has experienced an increase in
demand in all areas of its work, which has had an adverse impact on our
ability to respond to requests within normal timeframes.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

 

Information Compliance Team

Assurance Directorate University of Oxford

University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD

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