FOI release: FOI-0026: redacted response

Office of the Forensic Science Regulator
c/o Home Office Science
23 Stephenson Street
Birmingham B2 4BJ

Thank you for your e-mail of 18 June 2024, in which you ask for the following information:

Your Annual Budget for the financial year of 2022/23?

Other Revenue received but not from government?

Do you sponsor other Public Bodies: Yes/No, if yes who?

Number of temporary staff (including part timers)?

Number of contract staff employed, (self-employed)?can be made by either the following:

Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The Forensic Science Regulator is a public appointee and an arms-length body of government who operates independently, on behalf of the criminal justice system.

I am supported by a team of officials known as the Office of the Forensic Science Regulator (OFSR) who work under the direction of the Regulator and are employed by the Home Office

Year of Creation/Launch/Establishment? 2007

Your Annual Budget for the financial year of 2022/23? £839,000

Other Revenue received but not from government? None

Number of temporary staff (including part timers)? 0

Number of contract staff employed, (self-employed) 0

If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to [email protected], quoting reference FSR-FOI-0026.

If you ask for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.

As part of any internal review the Department’s handling of your information request would be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. If you were to remain dissatisfied after an internal review, you would have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the FOIA