Information Access Team
Information Management Service
Financial & Commercial Group
2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF
Switchboard 020 7035 4848
E-mail: [email address] Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Mr. Christopher Senior
Case Ref:
CR 12302
[FOI #13935 email]
Date:
29th July 2009
Dear Mr. Senior,
Thank you for your email of the 1st July 2009 in which you requested access to
information held by the Home Office in regards to the Written Answer provided by
Phil Woolas MP on the 30th June 2009 on Consultancy Costs.
Your request has been treated as a request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. We are now in a position to provide you with a substantive
response to your request.
After a thorough search, I regret to inform you that the Home Office does not hold
the information that you have requested.
I realise that this response may be a disappointment to you. However I would like
to assure you that a thorough search was conducted and that I am confident that
we do not hold the information that you asked for.
You may be interested to learn that, under Home Office Commercial Directorate
procedures, it is an explicit requirement that approval is obtained from our Human
Resources division before consultants are engaged. This mandated procedure
guards against the inappropriate use of external resources when suitably skil ed
internal resources are available.
The following information is available on the Home Office website that might be of
interest to you.
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Home Office Standard Terms and Conditions for Consultancy -
http://commercial.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/consultancy.pdf
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Home Office Consultancy Expenditure -
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/freedom-of-information/released-
information/foi-archive-about-us/9278_consultancy_expenditure
If you are unable to access or view this information, please let me know and I wil
be happy to send you a hard copy.
Thank you for your interest in the Home Office.
Yours sincerely,
Ian Lister
Information Access Consultant
Information Access Team
ANNEX A – Your Right of Complaint
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may request an independent internal
review of our handling of your request by submitting your complaint within two
months to the below address quoting the case reference number at the top of this
letter
Information Access Team
Information Management Service
Home Office
Ground Floor, Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
Alternatively you can email [email address]
During the independent review the department’s handling of your information
request wil be reassessed by an official who was not involved in providing you
with this response. Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you
wil have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by
section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
