Financial and Workforce Efficiencies

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Young Offenders' Institution Feltham IMB should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear HMP Feltham IMB,
VAT
1) Does the organisation use an external provider for VAT advisory services? If so please state the name of the organisation used?
2) Please provide the contract start and end date
3) Please confirm the total amount of VAT recovered by the provider in 2015/16
4) Please state the total amount paid for these services in 2015/16
5) Did the organisation use an external provider to re-review VAT recovered in the last financial year (15/16)? If so please state the name of the company used.
6) Please state the total amount of additional VAT recovered by the provider in 2015/16
7) Please state the total amount paid to the VAT advisor in 2015/16
8) Please state which, if any, frameworks were used to procure these services
AP
1) Please state the total number of Accounts Payable invoices processed by the organisation in the last financial year (15/16)
2) In the last five years, please state the name(s) of all external organisation(s) used to review AP and identify and recover erroneous payments, and the period(s) reviewed by each.
3) Please state the total value of moneys recovered by each provider in the period(s) reviewed.
4) Please state the total amount paid to any external parties for this review work.
5) Please state which, if any, frameworks were used to procure these services
CHC
1) Please state the organisation’s total expenditure on continuing healthcare (CHC) in 2015/16?
2) Please state the organisation’s total expenditure on funded nursing care (FNC) in 2015/16?
3) Please provide the average no. of patients receiving CHC and FNC funding in the last financial year, and a breakdown for each category:
a. CHC Patients
b. FNC Patients
4) Please provide the total number of suppliers that the organisation uses for CHC & FNC
5) Please state the average number of care packages in 2015/16
6) Is the continuing healthcare and funded nursing care process managed in-house, or is part or all of the process outsourced to a 3rd party (CSU, Council, Independent provider etc.). If outsourced, please state the name of the company and the services outsourced (all CHC, assessment, brokerage, invoice validation etc.)
7) Does the organisation use any third party tech solutions to record patient information relating to CHC (Broadcare, Swift, Caretrack, QA Plus etc.)? If not how is this recorded?
8) Does the organisation use any third party tech solutions to record financial information relating to CHC (Broadcare, Swift, Caretrack, QA Plus etc.)? If not how is this recorded?
9) Please state which, if any, frameworks were used to procure these services
WFM
1) Please provide the organisations agency expenditure (2015/16) split by staffing category
a. Admin
b. Prison officers
c. Forensic psychologists
d. Healthcare
e. Chaplaincy
f. Operational support
g. Estates and facilities
h. Other (please provide detail)
2) Bank expenditure split by staffing category
a. Admin
b. Prison officers
c. Forensic psychologists
d. Healthcare
e. Chaplaincy
f. Operational support
g. Estates and facilities
h. Other (please provide detail)
3) The no. of staff signed up to the bank
4) Does the organisation use any third party tech solutions to manage the supply of internal bank staff? If so please specify the name of the company used and the staffing categories managed through the tech solution. If different systems are used for different staffing types please specify.
5) Do you use any suppliers or systems to manage the release of vacancies to agencies and bank workers? If so please state the name of the company used and the staffing categories managed. If you use different suppliers/systems for different staffing categories, please specify. If different systems are used for different staffing types please specify.
6) Please state which, if any, frameworks were used to procure these services

Yours faithfully,

J Taylor