Please ask for:
Lynn Wyeth
Direct Line:
0116 252 7605
E-mail:
[email address]
Fax:
0116 252 7616
Our Ref:
FOI 4174
Date:
3rd September 2010
Mr. J. Randall,
[FOI #44038 email]
Dear Mr. Randall
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 Your request for information has now been considered and the Council’s
response to your questions is shown below.
You asked:
Could you please supply the following information under the Freedom
of Information Act:
1. Copy of all documented business cases for purchasing iPADs.
There are no documented business cases. The small number of devices that
have been purchased have been purchased for evaluation purposes only.
2. Copy of the invoice for each iPAD purchased. If the invoice does not
show which version of the iPAD is purchased please include this.
Please see Appendix 1.
Please see Appendix 2.
3. Who is the allocated user of each iPAD purchased and their role/job
title?
No individual officers have been allocated iPad devices. Two Councillors
have purchased iPads from their own support packages.
4. The monthly cost of mobile telecoms charges related to the use of
iPADs.
Not available due to the purchases being too recent.
5. Copy of any security policy or other document which governs how
Councillors may use IT equipment/services.
Please see Appendix 3
The current policy is given, but please note this is under review.
6. For those iPAD users listed in 3., are they existing laptop users and, if
so, is the laptop going to be retained or replaced by the iPAD?
Not applicable.
The two councillors who have bought iPads using their allowance have
returned their laptops which are now in use elsewhere within the Council.
Specifically in relation to the iPAD/s used by Ross Grant:
7. A list of the applications resident on his iPAD/s at the time this
request is received by the Council.
Contacts, Safari, Penultimate, iBooks, iDraft, Videos, Notes, iPod, Maps,
Photos, GoodReader, iTunes, App Store, YouTube, Settings, Facebook,
Numbers, Twitterific, Pages, Foursquare, Keynote, Adobe Ideas, iDisk, Draw,
Google, PhotoPad, Dropbox, ReelDirector, Evernote, PhotoShare, Echofon,
Big Calendar, PrintCentral, eBay, Calendar, DocStats, GW Calendar, BBC
News, GW Mail, ABC News, Mail, Dictionary, Dragon Dictation, Bloomberg,
SkyGrid, Met Office, WIRED, Marvel, Cool Hunting, IKEA UK, Super 7 HD,
Boxcar, iBrainstorm, Scoot, Tweetradar, Rightmove, OS GB 250k, Skype, F1
Timing App, SimplyTweet, TV Guide, Huddle, FlipBoard, Wikipanion.
8. Invoice for each application bought.
The council has not purchased these applications and therefore does not
have invoices.
Councillor Grant funded the applications himself and has not recharged the
Council.
9. Is the iPAD used for reading/typing non-public Council information?
Yes
10. Which external web services are used for storing or transferring
information from the iPAD?
Leicester City Council has set nothing up externally for this iPad.
11. Is the iTunes account linked to the iPAD a personal account of Ross
Grant or a specific Council only account?
Personal account
The legislation allows you to use the information supplied for your own
personal use. Please be aware that any commercial or other use, for example
publication, sale, or redistribution may be a breach of copyright under the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended unless you obtain the
copyright holder's prior permission.
Not all the information that is supplied which is covered by copyright will be
the Council's copyright, for example it may be the copyright of a government
department or another Council. You should seek either the Council’s consent
or their consent as appropriate. The Council is willing to advise you of any
such potential issues on request. In order to make a request to re-use the
information please contact the Head of Information Governance using the
details below.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request please write to:
Head of Information Governance Information and Support Leicester City Council
FREEPOST (LE985/33) New Walk Centre LEICESTER LE1 6ZG e-mail: [Leicester City Council request email]
Your request for internal review should be submitted to the above address
within 40 (forty) working days of receipt by you of this response. Any such
request received after this time will only be considered at the Council’s
absolute discretion.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Please be aware that the Information Commissioner does not normally
consider appeals or complaints until the internal appeals and complaints
processes of the public authority which is answering the request have been
exhausted. You are therefore advised to complain or appeal to Head of
Information Governance before contacting the Commissioner.
Yours sincerely
Lynn Wyeth
Head of Information Governance
