Migrant funding

Summary

A request was made to Manx Care for detailed financial data regarding payments and benefits provided to refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants. The authority responded that the information is not held and cannot be created without exceeding statutory requirements.

Key Facts

• Manx Care does not hold the requested information on migrant funding.
• The authority stated that creating the data would require deriving information not mandated by the Act.
• The request was received on 2 April 2025 and the response was issued on 6 May 2025.
• The response suggests the Cabinet Office may be able to assist with the inquiry.
• The requester was informed of their right to an internal review or appeal to the Information Commissioner.

Data Disclosed

• 2025-04-02
• 2025-05-09
• 4559581
• S11(3)(b)
• section 8(3)

Exemptions Cited

• S11(3)(b) - Information not held or cannot be found after reasonable steps
• Section 8(3) - Public authority not required to create or derive information

Original Request

Please state how much money has been paid to date to refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, immigrants or any variation thereof that Manx Care uses to avoid using the aforementioned terms in official correspondence? Please list the amounts by type of payment (be it cash, transfer, money uploaded to a debit card or other card and), by month and by year and please state in each category the number of refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, immigrants or any variation thereof that Manx Care uses to avoid using the aforementioned terms in official correspondence. Please list all of the types of financial and benefit awards (to include housing, vouchers, phones and anything else relevant to this FoI request) and anything else awarded/given to the refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, immigrants or any variation thereof that Manx Care uses to avoid using the aforementioned terms in official correspondence. Thank you.

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

Manx Care Noble’s Hospital, Strang Braddan, Isle of Man IM4 4R (01624) 650 000

Our ref: 4559581 6 May 2025

Dear

We write further to your request received 2 April 2025, which states:

"Please state how much money has been paid to date to refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, immigrants or any variation thereof that Manx Care uses to avoid using the aforementioned terms in official correspondence?

Please list the amounts by type of payment (be it cash, transfer, money uploaded to a debit card or other card and), by month and by year and please state in each category the number of refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, immigrants or any variation thereof that Manx Care uses to avoid using the aforementioned terms in official correspondence.

Please list all of the types of financial and benefit awards (to include housing, vouchers, phones and anything else relevant to this FoI request) and anything else awarded/given to the refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, immigrants or any variation thereof that Manx Care uses to avoid using the aforementioned terms in official correspondence.

Thank you."

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the public authority does not hold or cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, find the information that you have requested.

Under S11(3)(b) complying with the request for information would require the public authority to do one or more of the matters mentioned in section 8(3) (things a public authority is not required to do by the Act) to create or derive information from informa tion that it holds which the Department is not required to do under the Act.

It may be that the Cabinet Office may be able to help you in this matter.

Please quote the reference number 4559581 in any future communications.

Your right to request a review

If you are unhappy with this response to your freedom of information request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response, by completing a complaint form and submitting it electronically or by delivery/post.

An electronic version of our complaint form can be found by going to our website at https://services.gov.im/freedom-of-information/Review . If you would like a paper version of our complaint form to be sent to you by post, please contact me and I will be happy to arrange for this. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made as soon as practicable. We will respond as soon as the review has been concluded.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner for a decision on; 1. Whether we have responded to your request for information in accordance with Part 2 of the Freedom of Information Act 2015; or 2. Whether we are justified in refusing to give you the information requested.
In response to an application for review, the Information Commissioner may, at any time, attempt to resolve a matter by negotiation, conciliation, mediation or another form of alternative dispute resolution and will have regard to any outcome of this in making any subsequent decision. More detailed information on your right to a review can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website at www.inforights.im. Should you have any queries concerning this letter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Further information about freedom of information requests can be found at www.gov.im/foi.

I will now close your request as of this date.

Yours sincerely