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Multiple questions on Chief Scientist Office operations:FOI release
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Request (2) “Please tell me what you spend by illness if you have started reporting this since I last asked this question.” Response to request While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, under section 14(2) of FOISA a public authority is not required to comply with a request for information if it is identical or substantially similar to a request which it has already complied with, unless a reasonable amount of time has elapsed between the two requests. b.Part of this proposal was that SMS-IC would be self funding at the end of the grant in March 2017 please could you send me any post project review papers you have on the success or otherwise of this CSO investment Response to request While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, under section 14(2) of FOISA a public authority is not required to comply with a request for information if it is identical or substantially similar to a request which it has already complied with, unless a reasonable amount of time has elapsed between the two requests. An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to a small amount of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e names/contact details of individuals, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in the Data Protection Act and Regulations. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you.