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Derek Kelly made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Waiting for an internal review by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of their handling of this request.
From: Derek Kelly
16 December 2011
Dear Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
Please can you provide the following information. For each
consultant / contractor working within Defra's Procurement and
Commercial Function (including all sub functions, ie Integrated
Commercial Strategy, MI Team, Lean Team etc) from 1 jan 2009, the
following information:
1. The daily rate paid to each contractor
2. The date they started with the department
3. The date they left the department
4. Based on their daily rate, the daily agency fees paid to the
recruitment agency for each contractor
5. The recruitment agency/ consultancy they are/were with
Yours faithfully,
Derek Kelly
From: Helpline, Defra (CCU)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
16 December 2011
Thank you for your email which has been received by the Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). This is an automatic
response acknowledging receipt of your email; there is no need to reply.
We have a target of replying to emails within 15 working days or sooner if
we can. If you need a reply before then, please call the Defra Helpline
on 08459 33 55 77, or from outside the UK call +44 (0) 20 7238 6951
(Minicom/textphone for the deaf and hard of hearing: 0845 300 1998).
The Defra website contains a lot of information about Defra’s work that
maybe of interest. Some of our popular pages are:
• Travelling with Pets
[1]http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-pets/pe...
• Bovine TB Eradication Programme for England (including information
about badger control)
[2]http://www.defra.gov.uk/animal-diseases/...
• Fishing (including Common Fisheries Policy)
[3]http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/mari...
• Keeping Chickens
[4]http://www.defra.gov.uk/food-farm/animal...
• Flooding [5]http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/floo...
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004 (EIRs) both require that you receive a reply
as soon as possible and no later than 20 working days after the date of
receipt of your request. This deadline may be extended under certain
limited circumstances.
Regards
Customer Contact Unit
Defra
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
This email and any attachments is intended for the named recipient only.
If you have received it in error you have no authority to use, disclose,
store or copy any of its contents and you should destroy it and inform the
sender.
Whilst this email and associated attachments will have been checked
for known viruses whilst within Defra systems we can accept no
responsibility once it has left our systems.
Communications on Defra's computer systems may be monitored and/or
recorded to secure the effective operation of the system and for other
lawful purposes.
References
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1. http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-pets/pe...
2. http://www.defra.gov.uk/animal-diseases/...
3. http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/mari...
4. http://www.defra.gov.uk/food-farm/animal...
5. http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/floo...
From: Duffy, Diane (LCS-PCF)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
19 December 2011
Mr Kelly
Please see attached acknowledgement of your request below.
Many thanks
Diane Duffy
PS to:
Simon Hewitt - Head of Procurement & Contracts/ICS Programme Director
Procurement & Contracts Division
Defra, Area 4C, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR
Tel: 0207 238 4482 Fax: 0207 238 1655
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From: Jadeja, Meena (LCS-LEG)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
18 January 2012
Dear Mr Derek Kelly,
Please find the attached response to your Freedom of Information Request.
<<rf14445 Jan .pdf>>
Yours sincerely
Meena Jadeja
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
This email and any attachments is intended for the named recipient only.
If you have received it in error you have no authority to use, disclose,
store or copy any of its contents and you should destroy it and inform the
sender.
Whilst this email and associated attachments will have been checked<br>for
known viruses whilst within Defra systems we can accept no responsibility
once it has left our systems.
Communications on Defra's computer systems may be monitored and/or
recorded to secure the effective operation of the system and for other
lawful purposes.
From: Derek Kelly
24 January 2012
Dear Jadeja, Meena (LCS-LEG),
Thank you for your reply, however it does not show Agency Fees. You
have shown interim + Agency Fees combined. Some Agency advertise a
fixed 12.5% on interim rates, and this is what I want to see the
actual Agency percentage or fee on each interim The government has
great buying power and I want to see how much the agency fees are
per contract. For more clarity here is an example of the breakdown
I am looking for. This is based on a study of sustainability and
value for money of interim cost and the procurement of these
contracts.
Interim 1 Day Rate £200,
Agency Fee Percentage 12.5% (£25.00)
Total £225.00 per day
Agency ‘Smith’
Interim 2 Day Rate £200,
Agency Fee Percentage 57% (£114.00)
Total £314 per day Rate
Agency ‘R P S’
Yours sincerely,
Derek Kelly
From: Jadeja, Meena (LCS-LEG)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
24 January 2012
Dear Mr Kelly,
Thank you for your email in which you require further information relating to agency fees.
A response will be sent in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Meena Jadeja
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From: PCF PQs (LCS-PCF)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
25 January 2012
Dear Mr Kelly,
Thank you for your e-mail regarding agency fees. Defra are unable to provide this information as it is not centrally held.
Yours sincerely,
Meena Jadeja
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From: Derek Kelly
8 February 2012
Dear PCF PQs (LCS-PCF),
In response to item 4, can i be clear you are saying that for every
contract for an interim/agency person DEFRA employ, that an
individual negotiates a rate paid to the agency without any
knowledge of the individuals market rate and the agency therefore
has the ability to manipulate there fee without you having any
understanding of the agency profit margin, yes or no?
Do DEFRA have any agreed rates of mark up for any of the agency
costs given? If so what were these rates and with which agency?
Do you utilise any of the available framework agreements? If so
which ones have you used in the last 3 years?
Yours sincerely,
Derek Kelly
From: Derek Kelly
9 February 2012
Dear Jadeja, Meena (LCS-LEG),
A Reply to your responce has been added and i want to remind you
that by law, the authority should normally have responded promptly
and by 19 January 2012 and this is now late and unanswered.
Yours sincerely,
Derek Kelly
From: Jadeja, Meena (LCS-LEG)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
9 February 2012
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Dear Mr Derek Kelly,
Thank you for your email. Our initial response was sent to you by email on 18th January 2011 which is within the 20 day deadline. Please see the attached email for your information.
Your email sent to us on 8 February 2012 has been logged as a new question. Please find a copy of the acknowledgement letter in relation to this FOI.
Yours sincerely,
Meena Jadeja
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From: PCF PQs (LCS-PCF)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
6 March 2012
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Dear Mr. Derek Kelly,
Thank you for your email dated 8 February 2012. Please see the attached FOI reply.
Yours sincerely
Meena Jadeja
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From: Derek Kelly
14 April 2012
Dear PCF PQs (LCS-PCF),
Thank you for your response.
How many of these contractor numbers represent the same person more
than once, i.e. who have worked through more than one agency?
For example, contractor 23 & 47 may be the same contractor. Can you
please show where this is the case.
Yours sincerely,
Derek Kelly
From: Derek Kelly
14 May 2012
Dear PCF PQs (LCS-PCF),
This request is now late please respond.
Yours sincerely,
Derek Kelly
From: Derek Kelly
17 May 2012
Dear Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs's handling of my FOI request
'Agency Fees'.
You have failed to acknowledge and respond to my question, and more
than 20 days have now passed. I fail to see how you cannot provide
this information and I would like this examined and the details to
be published. By law, under all circumstances, you should have
responded by now.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ag...
Yours faithfully,
Derek Kelly
From: Helpline, Defra (CCU)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
17 May 2012
Thank you for your email which has been received by the Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). This is an automatic
response acknowledging receipt of your email; there is no need to reply.
We have a target of replying to emails within 15 working days or sooner if
we can. If you need a reply before then, please call the Defra Helpline
on 08459 33 55 77, or from outside the UK call +44 (0) 20 7238 6951
(Minicom/textphone for the deaf and hard of hearing: 0845 300 1998).
The Defra website contains a lot of information about Defra’s work that
may be of interest. Some of our popular pages are:
• Latest Defra news [1]http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/
• Travelling with Pets
[2]http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-pets/pe...
• Bovine TB Eradication Programme for England (including information
about badger control)
[3]http://www.defra.gov.uk/animal-diseases/...
• Fishing (including Common Fisheries Policy)
[4]http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/mari...
• Waste and recycling [5]http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/
• Flooding [6]http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/floo...
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004 (EIRs) both require that you receive a reply
as soon as possible and no later than 20 working days after the date of
receipt of your request. This deadline may be extended under certain
limited circumstances.
Regards
Customer Contact Unit
Defra
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
This email and any attachments is intended for the named recipient only.
If you have received it in error you have no authority to use, disclose,
store or copy any of its contents and you should destroy it and inform the
sender.
Whilst this email and associated attachments will have been checked<br>for
known viruses whilst within Defra systems we can accept no responsibility
once it has left our systems.
Communications on Defra's computer systems may be monitored and/or
recorded to secure the effective operation of the system and for other
lawful purposes.
References
Visible links
1. http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/
2. http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-pets/pe...
3. http://www.defra.gov.uk/animal-diseases/...
4. http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/mari...
5. http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/
6. http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/floo...
From: PCF PQs (LCS-PCF)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
22 May 2012
Mr Kelly
Please see the attached response to your request below.
Many thanks
Diane
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From: Derek Kelly
22 May 2012
Dear PCF PQs (LCS-PCF),
Thank you for your response, but this does not fall under section
40(2) (third party personal data).
I have not asked for any personal data, I have only asked that the
information you have already supplied shows the same number for a
contractor if it is the same contractor, and this does not reveal
any personal information.
Yours sincerely,
Derek Kelly
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