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WEST MERCIA PCC: DISCLOSURE LOG

RESPONSE TO REQUEST
Reference: 2021 – 255 / WE4703
Date of response: 19th August 2021

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – INFORMATION REQUEST

Request

Dear West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner,

This is an information request relating to payments made to charities and third sector organisations.

Please provide the following information for 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:

• The value of grants made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all grants separately.
• The value of loans made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all loans separately.

The payments made to charities and third sector organisations relate to the following only:

• Operation Black Vote
• U.K. Black Pride
• Mermaids
• Ozanne Foundation
• Gendered Intelligence
• British Medical Association
• ActionAid UK
• Hope Not Hate
• Led by Donkeys
• Extinction Rebellion
• Migrants Organise
• CLASS
• Black Lives Matter
• Action on Smoking and Health
• Action on Smoking and Health Scotland
• Action on Smoking and Health Wales
• Breath 2025
• Association of Directors of Public Health
• Improving Performance in Practice (previously Public Management Associates)

I would prefer a response via email, but if this is not possible, I will gladly accept letters to the address below.

Please acknowledge this information request as soon as possible.

Kind regards,
Jonathan Eida

Response

Please see the below response to your request.

Thank you for your FOI request. We can confirm that all the information you have
requested is published on the West Mercia PCC’s website, for all grant payments made by
the PCC since 2016/17. The Office has not made any loans to any of the organisations
listed.

Please see the link below to the appropriate page.
Current and Historic Funding Portfolio – West Mercia Police Crime Commissioner (westmercia-pcc.gov.uk)

Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write to the
Information Compliance Unit; Information Compliance Unit, PO Box 55, Worcester, WR3
8SP. Email: [email protected].

Yours sincerely,

FOI Officer
West Mercia PCC

Complaints

If you think that the Police and Crime Commissioner has failed to supply information in accordance with the
publication scheme, then you should write in the first instance, to the:

Chief Executive, OPCC – West Mercia, Hindlip Hall, Worcester. WR3 8SP

The PCC will aim to deal with your complaint within 10 working days. If you are dissatisfied with the response
you can ask for the matter to be internally reviewed. Internal reviews will be completed promptly and a
response given to you within 20 working days of your further request.

If, after the internal review, you remain dissatisfied, then you can complain to the Information Commissioner
(Office of the Information Commissioner), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF).