FOI release

VMD FOI requests received between 1 January and 30 June 2015

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests received by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) between 1 January and 30 June 2015

• From: Veterinary Medicines Directorate
• Published: 7 September 2015

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FOI requests received by the VMD between 1 January and 30 June 2015

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The VMD received the following FOI requests for information in the first six months of this year.

Of the 31 requests:

• 10 requested information on our information and communications technology (ICT) arrangements
• 5 requested information about certain veterinary medicinal products
• 4 requested information separately about what art we hold (none), our gas and electricity supply, our use of external recruitment agencies, and whistleblowing in the VMD (none)
• 3 requested information related to our pharmacovigilance work
• 3 requested information related to our organophosphate work
• 3 came from people or companies about whom we had received complaints, asking for the names of those that had complained – we treat each request on a case by case basis – in these cases we did not release the name of the complainant
• 1 requested information about residues in horses
• 1 requested information about certain correspondence relating to Crufts (none)
• 1 requested information on veterinary sales data

If you would like to see any of these requests and our replies please email postmaster@vmd.gov.uk stating the ATI reference number we allocated to the request.

Published 7 September 2015