Expenditure on Consultants

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From: Steve Martin

17 January 2010

Dear Nuclear Decommissioning Authority,

Please provide a breakdown of the expenditure made by your
organisation on consultants for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Please provide information on the consultants used, the amount
spent and the purpose of the expenditure.

Please include within this scope all consultants, including those
used for design and management and advice.

Please also provide details of what your current projections are
for years 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Yours faithfully,

Steve Martin

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Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

18 January 2010

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From: Hollands, Judith
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

19 January 2010

Attachment Copy of Breakdown of Consultancy Costs.pdf attachment.pdf
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Attachment Consultancy List.pdf attachment.pdf
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Dear Mr Martin

I've attached information supplied previously to a similar request.

We only have predictions for 2010 = £17,825,221. This figure is just an initial cut and won't be confirmed until March (it is likely to be reduced).

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Judith Hollands
Information Access Manager
NDA, Herdus House, Westlakes Science and Technology Park, Moor Row, Cumbria, CA24 3HU
T: 01925 80 2077
W: http://www.nda.gov.uk
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From: Steve Martin

20 January 2010

Dear Ms Hollands,

Thank you for you prompt request.

May I ask for a fuller response, or one that more closely reflects
my request.

To make life easier, please could you populate your attached
document entitled 'Consultancy List.pdf' with your expenditure on
that particular supplier, by year, for 2007, 2008 and 2009.

The original request can be found at:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ex...

Yours sincerely,

Steve Martin

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From: Hollands, Judith
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

20 January 2010

Dear Mr Martin

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 only requires authorities to supply information held - that is what I have done. The information supplied does cover all the items you requested. We are not obliged by the FOI Act to create "new" information in response to requests.

Regards

Judith Hollands
Information Access Manager
NDA, Herdus House, Westlakes Science and Technology Park, Moor Row, Cumbria, CA24 3HU
T: 01925 80 2077
W: http://www.nda.gov.uk
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From: Steve Martin

23 January 2010

Dear Ms Hollands,

Thank you once again for your speedy response.

I do believe that the NDA hold this information, albeit not in a
single place.

To make your life a little easier, could I suggest that you contact
your finance/accounts department and ask them for a copy of the
aged creditors report and creditors payment history, which would
answer my enquiry. This would be readily available on your
accounting system.

With regard to the specific services they are providing, a copy of
either their contract, terms of engagement or engagement letter
would address this issue. This would likely be available from the
department responsible for purchasing.

I am happy to consolidate the information if it came to me as a
series of separate documents covering each consultant.

Thank you for your attention to this request and I look forward to
hearing from you in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Martin

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From: Hollands, Judith
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

25 January 2010

Dear Mr Martin

To make a valid FOI request you need to send me your name and address -
your requests up until now haven't actually been valid as they have been
sent from an anonymous email account. Also I believed that we had
complied with your request. However, you do not appear to agree, so
please clarify what information you require. You can request a format
e.g. electronic or hard copy, but you cannot specify that we compile a
bespoke response. I will endeavour to satisfy your enquiry, but be aware
that potentially you are asking for commercially sensitive information
which we may be required to withhold.

Regards

Judith Hollands
Information Access Manager
NDA, Herdus House, Westlakes Science and Technology Park, Moor Row,
Cumbria, CA24 3HU
T: 01925 80 2077
W: http://www.nda.gov.uk
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