All and any payments in any form to any registered Charity

Dear Mr Rossiter

Thank you for your request.

I acknowledge your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Assuming we hold this information, I will endeavour
to supply the data to you as soon as possible but no later
than 26th February 2010 (20 working days from date of receipt).

I will advise you as soon as possible if we do not hold this information
or if there are exemptions to be considered and/or any costs for providing
the information. Please quote our reference - FOI/10/0106 in any
communication regarding this particular request.

Best regards

Corporate Access to Information Team, Chief Executive's Department
Kent County Council, Legal & Democratic Services, Room B.48, Sessions
House, County Hall, Maidstone. ME14 1XQ.
Tel: 01622 696265 or 01622 694261 - Fax: 01622 694383
[1]http://www.kent.gov.uk/your_council/have...

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Dear Mr Rossiter

Thank you for your request for information about payments made to
charitable organisations.

Kent County Council is a very large authority; our employee headcount is
over 44,000. KCC is split into five directorates, each with their own
devolved powers and financial management so consequently, very few records
are centralised making our ability to answer authority-wide requests for
information very difficult within the appropriate limit.

KCC does not have a specific account code within our financial database
(ORACLE) for this type of expenditure and as KCC makes hundreds of
thousands of payments each year to thousands of organisations and
individuals, it would take well in excess of the appropriate limit of
£450 (equivalent to 18 hours @ £25 per hour) to extrapolate this
information as a series of reports would have to be generated on payments
made per month sorted by organisation name and then every transaction,
even those to well-known charities, would have to be analysed to ascertain
what the payment was for. Therefore, under section 12 of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, the Council is not obliged to comply with your
request.

However, KCC does appreciate it has a duty to advise and assist under
section 16 FOIA, and as we can quite easily generate a report on payments
made to a specific organisation or individual for a given period of
time, if there was a particular charity or trust you are interested in,
please let us know and we will be happy to revisit your request.

If you are unhappy with this response, and believe KCC has not complied
with legislation, please ask for a review by following our complaints
process; details can be found at this link
[1]http://www.kent.gov.uk/your_council/have...
on our website. Please quote reference FOI/10/0106.

If you still remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you can
appeal to the Information Commissioner, who oversees compliance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. Details of what you need to do, should
you wish to pursue this course of action, are available from the
Information Commissioner*s website
[2]http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/freedom...

Best regards

Caroline Dodge
Corporate Access to Information Coordinator, Chief Executive's Department
Kent County Council, Legal & Democratic Services, Room B.48, Sessions
House, County Hall, Maidstone. ME14 1XQ.
Tel: 01622 221652 - Fax: 01622 694383
[3]http://www.kent.gov.uk/your_council/have...

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