The University of York has paid out £500,000 on gagging clauses in contracts, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

York Nouse student newspaper report:

The University has spent nearly half a million pounds on controversial gagging orders, known in legal terms as agreements containing confidentiality clauses.

Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that the University has issued 26 compromise agreements, all containing confidentiality clauses, since 2007.

The total cost of signing the orders was £479,464, and the highest amount paid out to any individual was £42,000.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.