Dear Ms Turner

Information Request: FR1756

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 12/02/2010. Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act and is detailed below in italics with our response.

Your original request is detailed below in italics.

I am interested in the amounts paid by each school in

Northamptonshire County Council to third parties in relation to

temporary staffing cover. My hope is to receive an electronic

breakdown of amounts paid through the department's purchase ledger

by school.

Notes:

1. I would like the information in electronic format. This should

avoid any printing cost issues.

2. In order to avoid your having to collate information from

peripheral systems, I am willing to accept information only from

your main system (I would like you to advise which system this is).

By main system I mean the system that handles the largest part of

the department's expenditure. If supplier payments are made through

separate systems, then I would like you to choose the

main system for each.

3. The information I require for each school is: School Name;

Supplier name and total amount paid.

4. I would like the information to cover the year 2008/9. I will

accept 2007/8 figures if this is not possible.

Our Response

I have been provided with the following in response to your request “we do not hold this information, as each of our 318 schools holds this information individually at their local level”.

The disclosure to you of the enclosed information does not give you a right to reproduce or publish such information without the express permission of the County Council or any other owners of the copyright therein.

If you are unhappy with the response, you can ask the Council to review it. To do this please write to the address below:

Paul Edwards

Head of Business Intelligence and Performance

Northamptonshire County Council

PO Box 93

County Hall

Northampton NN1 1AN

If our internal review does not resolve the issue to your complete satisfaction, you have the right to apply to the information Commissioner for a decision at the following address:

Information Commissioner

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

Or, if you have any complaints in respect of your information request please complete the on-line comments form that can be found at www.northamptonshire.gov.uk, along with a full set of guidance.

Yours sincerely

Gillian Hollowell

Senior Freedom of Information/Data Protection Officer
Legal & Democratic Services

Northamptonshire County Council

Please ask for: Gill Hollowell

Tel: 01603 237407

Our ref: FR1756

Your ref:

Date: 16 February 2010

Northamptonshire County Council

County Hall

PO Box 136

Northampton, NN1 1AT

w. www.northamptonshire.gov.uk

t. 01604 237407

f. 01604 237004

e. [email address]