21 May 2010

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Ian Benson
10 County House Mews
Monkgate
York
YO31 7NR

Sent by email:
ian.benson22@btinternet.com

Dear Mr Benson

Freedom of information request: terrorism legislation

Thank you for your email of 26 April 2010 requesting information about the arrangements
the University has made with regard to terrorism legislation. I am pleased to enclose the
information you requested.

Q1. You asked for any information or advice provided to staff or students regarding any
potential liability under terrorism legislation, which might result from accessing materials
for teaching or research. The University has not prepared information or advice on this
topic.

Q2. You asked if the University has any policies or procedures for reviewing or assessing
reading lists, module descriptors or other teaching materials that consider questions of
safety and risk under terrorism legislation. The University does not have any such policies
or procedures.

Q3. You asked for any policies or procedures for dealing with any potential actions taken
by the authorities against the University, its staff or students. I am pleased to provide you
with the hyperlink to the University’s protocol for removing websites:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/policies-and-
regulations/security-policies/removing-websites. The Protocol was approved by the
University’s Central Management Group on 22 April 2008 and was promoted through
various channels, including articles in University newsletters, in May 2008.

If you do not have Internet access, please let me know and I will be happy to send you a
printout of the relevant pages.

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Q4. You asked if the University has any systems, policies or procedures for preventing
violent extremism. The University does not have policies or procedures on this issue;
however, the University Chaplaincy (http://www.chaplaincy.ed.ac.uk/) works to build
positive relationships across the University in all that it does.

Copyright in the information you have been given belongs to the University of Edinburgh or
to another party. Copyright material must not be copied, distributed, modified, reproduced,
transmitted, published (including published on the Internet or an intranet), or otherwise
made available in whole or in part without the prior written consent of the copyright holder.

If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may ask the University to conduct a review
of this decision. To do this, please contact the University in writing (including by fax, letter
or email) or in some other recorded form (e.g. audio or video tape), describe the original
request, explain your grounds for dissatisfaction, and include an address for
correspondence. You have 40 working days from receipt of this letter to submit a review
request. When the review process has been completed, if you are still dissatisfied, you
may ask the Scottish Information Commissioner to intervene.

Yours sincerely

Anne Grzybowski
Deputy Records Manager
Anne.Grzybowski@ed.ac.uk