Council Expenditure or Payment to Suppliers

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Dear Liverpool City Council,

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £500 from 1st April 2017 to 31st December 2018. As a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of each transaction.

If it would help, I am specifically looking for payments to suppliers who provide a service in Health and Social Care. This would include all suppliers falling under the categories :-

1. Payments to suppliers who provide fostering and adoption services to the Council
2. Payments to suppliers who provide care services to the council. This
would include suppliers who provide care under each of below -
a. Children's Residential/ Nursing Care Providers
b. Adult Residential/ Nursing Care Providers
c. Elderly Residential/ Nursing Care Providers
d. Domiciliary Care Home Providers
e. Supported Living Care Home Providers
f. Care at Home Providers
g. Providers who carry out Homeless Services
3. Payments to suppliers who provide Special Education Services

In particular I am looking for itemized transactions for suppliers from 1st April 2017 - 31st December 2018 - preferably in CSV format. I look forward to the information at the earliest.

Yours Sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu

Finance and Resources, Liverpool City Council

Information request
Our reference: 670649

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Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for your request for information that was received on 13
February 2019 concerning:
 
Dear Liverpool City Council,

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all
transactions over £500 from 1st April 2017 to 31st December 2018. As a
minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of each
transaction.

If it would help, I am specifically looking for payments to suppliers who
provide a service in Health and Social Care. This would include all
suppliers falling under the categories :-

1. Payments to suppliers who provide fostering and adoption services to
the Council 2. Payments to suppliers who provide care services to the
council. This would include suppliers who provide care under each of below
- a. Children's Residential/ Nursing Care Providers b. Adult Residential/
Nursing Care Providers c. Elderly Residential/ Nursing Care Providers d.
Domiciliary Care Home Providers e. Supported Living Care Home Providers f.
Care at Home Providers g. Providers who carry out Homeless Services 3.
Payments to suppliers who provide Special Education Services

In particular I am looking for itemized transactions for suppliers from
1st April 2017 - 31st December 2018 - preferably in CSV format. I look
forward to the information at the earliest.
 
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2019 (which is 20 working days beginning on the first working
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Yours faithfully
 
 
Information Team | Liverpool City Council

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Dear Ms Prabhu

Please see attached our response to your information request as submitted
to Liverpool City Council.     

Regards

Information Team

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Liverpool City Council

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Dear Information Requests,

Thank you so much for your response, however, I noticed that there are no Fostering type transactions after October 2017, in the weblink you have shared.

Could you please send or let me know where I may access those transactions as well?

Sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu

Dear Information Requests,

Did you receive my previous message?

Thank you,
Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Dear Information Requests,

Could you please acknowledge my message on 13 March?

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Dear Information Requests,

Thank you so much for your response, however, I noticed that there are no Fostering type transactions (payments to IFAs) after October 2017, in the weblink you have shared.

Could you please send or let me know where I may access those transactions as well?

Sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu

Dear Information Requests,

We have been very reasonable for an extremely long period of time and the Council has not even acknowledged our messages. Unfortunately we do now need this information – we are a research organisation and would be grateful if you could please provide us the information by 22nd April 2019 – failing which we will now be forced to escalate this matter.

Thank you,
Sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu

Information Requests, Liverpool City Council

Dear Ms Prabhu

The City Council regularly publishes lists of expenditure in accordance with transparency rules, accessible via the weblink provided in our original response - https://liverpool.gov.uk/council/budgets...

Regards

Information Team

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Dear Information Requests,

Thank you for your response and link last Friday.

However, as I have mentioned, Liverpool does not publish payments to IFA since October 2017. We feel the Council has been very uncooperative. We are a research organisation and would need this information by next Monday failing which we will have to escalate the matter.

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Information Requests, Liverpool City Council

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Dear Ms Prabhu

Following an additional review and examination of financial systems, please see attached what we understand to be information relevant to the terms of your original request.

Our apologies for the delay.

Regards

Information Team

Information Requests
Liverpool City Council
[email address]

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Dear Information Requests,

Thank you so much!

Yours Sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu

Dear Information Requests,

Thank you so much!
This is spectacular and exactly what we wanted!
We are so very grateful for this!

Yours Sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu