Have the NI Assembly accepted a donation/donations from the International Monetary Fund in relation to Covid-19 and if so how much was it for and what was the agreement on how it would be used?

Information Standards Freedom of Information Response

Our Ref: FoI 46-21

2 November 2021

Freedom of Information Act 2000

The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Assembly Commission) is the corporate body of the Northern Ireland Assembly and it is the Assembly Commission that holds the budget in respect of the Northern Ireland Assembly. In your request received of 14 October 2021, you asked for the following information:

“Please can you provide the following information under Freedom of Information

1) has the NI Assembly accepted a donation/donations from the International Monetary Fund in relation to Covid-19?

2) if so how much was it for and what was the agreement on how it would be used?”

The Assembly Commission has not accepted any donation from the International Monetary Fund in relation to Covid-19 and does not hold any information in relation to this request. You may also wish to contact the Northern Ireland Executive. Further details can be found by clicking here.

You have the right to request a formal review by the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission and if you wish to do so, please write to me at the above address.

If after such an internal review you are still unhappy with the response, you have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF who will undertake an independent review.

The Assembly Commission may publish details of your FOI request and our official response within the organisational disclosure log. The request will be completely anonymised and you will not be identified in any way. This is to meet the requirements as laid out by in the agreed publication scheme with the Information Commissioners’ Office.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me.  Please remember to quote the reference number above.

Yours sincerely

INFORMATION STANDARDS