FOI release: FOI-0021: redacted response

Office of the Forensic Science Regulator
23 Stephenson Street
Birmingham
B2 4BJ

Thank you for your e-mail of 13 March 2024, in which you ask for information on the following:

Information relating to staff networks for the following years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23:

A list of all the staff networks at the organisation

Whether each network receives internal funding and, if so, how much (please express annually for the last four financial years)

How much FTE equivalent staff time each network is entitled to. For example, a staff network may have a chair who’s entitled to spend 10% of their working hours devoted to the network (please express annually for the last three financial years)

A list of events that each network has held in this financial year so far (April to the present day), including the title of the event, information on any guest speakers and the time of the event

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 as a whole.

The Regulator is 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.

The Forensic Science Regulator does not hold the information which you have requested.

You may wish to consider a separate request to be made to the Home Office under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act should you still require the information you have asked for.

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-0021.

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