Fraud employees

The request was successful.

Dear Common Council of the City of London,

Could you please disclose how many council employees have been suspended over allegations of fraud? How many of those were suspended on full pay?
If you are able to, please provide some detail on the type of fraud commited

Please provide an annual break down from 2017-2021

Yours faithfully,

Gurpreet Kaur

COL-EB-InformationOfficer, Common Council of the City of London

4 Attachments

Dear Gurpreet Kaur,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

 

The City of London (CoL), sometimes also called the City of London
Corporation, acknowledges receipt of your four similar requests for
information of 1 March 2022 (attached), which we will be combining into
one request.

 

(Please note that, although the WDTK site lists the CoL at two places
under two different names –

[1]http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/city_...

[2]http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/commo...

- where your identical requests are listed, the CoL is in fact one legal
entity. Its full, official name is ‘The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens
of the City of London’. We have informed the WDTK website that it is
maintaining two sections for one body, and that it would be less confusing
for applicants if the site referred to the CoL under one name instead of
maintaining two lists and two names for the same legal entity, but it has
declined to make the change. For further clarification of the position of
the CoL under the FOIA, please see Paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 of the FOIA,
which describes the CoL as being subject to the FOIA with regard to 'The
Common Council of the City of London, in respect of information held in
its capacity as a local authority, police authority or port health
authority').

 

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the
statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working
day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public
authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

 

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the
“Square Mile”, ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a
whole. Please see the following page containing a link to a map (City of
London - Interactive Mapping), which shows the local authority area
covered by the CoL:

[3]https://www.mapping.cityoflondon.gov.uk/...

 

The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority
functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information
please see: [4]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Officer

Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department

City of London

Tel: 020-7332 1243

[5]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

 

THIS E-MAIL AND ANY ATTACHED FILES ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND MAY BE LEGALLY
PRIVILEGED. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction,
copying, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication
is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error
please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail.
Opinions, advice or facts included in this message are given without any
warranties or intention to enter into a contractual relationship with the
City of London unless specifically indicated otherwise by agreement,
letter or facsimile signed by a City of London authorised signatory. Any
part of this e-mail which is purely personal in nature is not authorised
by the City of London. All e-mail through the City of London's gateway is
potentially the subject of monitoring. All liability for errors and
viruses is excluded. Please note that in so far as the City of London
falls within the scope of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004, it may need to disclose this
e-mail. Website: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

References

Visible links
1. http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/city_...
2. http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/commo...
3. https://www.mapping.cityoflondon.gov.uk/...
4. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/
5. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/

COL-EB-InformationOfficer, Common Council of the City of London

4 Attachments

Dear Gurpreet Kaur,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

 

Following your request of 1 March 2022, and our acknowledgement of 3 March
2022, the City of London (CoL) responds as follows. 

 

We note you have sent four emails in regard to the information requested.
For ease of responding to you we have combined these into the below two
questions.

 

• Dear Common Council of the City of London, Could you please disclose
how many employees have been suspended over allegations of fraud in
each year going back to 2017. How many of those were suspended on full
pay?  If you can, please provide detail on the type of fraud.

 

• Could you please disclose how many council employees have been
suspended over allegations of fraud? How many of those were suspended 
on full pay?

If you are able to, please provide some detail on the type of fraud
commited

 

Please provide an annual break down from 2017-2021

 

The City of London can confirm that for the period 2017- 2021 no employees
have been suspended over allegations of fraud.

 

In addition, we note that in a situation where it would be appropriate to
suspend an individual. The individual would be suspended on full pay
pending an investigation and a disciplinary hearing unless there were
exceptional circumstances.

 

We hope that this response is of assistance.

 

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[1][email address] For a link to the CoL’s FOI
complaints procedure, please visit the following page:
[2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL’s FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700.  Website: [3]http://www.ico.org.uk/.

 

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority; and to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
(GSMD), which it manages. Subject to any other statutory provisions
requiring the CoL to disclose information, release of information outside
the scope of the Act is subject to the discretion of the CoL.

 

The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Officer

Comptroller & City Solicitors Department

Tel: 020 7332 1243

Email: [4][email address]

[5]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

 

To mitigate the risk posed by Covid-19 please send all correspondence and
related documentation to the Comptroller and City Solicitor’s department
by email only, unless hard copies are requested or are required due to the
terms of other documents or statutory requirements. Service of documents
is only accepted by email or fax where express written authority is
provided. Where hard copies are sent please advise the relevant staff
member to ensure receipt can be monitored

 

 

 

 

 

From: COL-EB-InformationOfficer
Sent: 03 March 2022 15:05
To: Gurpreet <[email address]>; Gurpreet
<[FOI #837892 email]>; Gurpreet
<[email address]>; Gurpreet
<[email address]>
Subject: FOI RFI: Kaur, wef 2 March 2022 - Acknowledgement

 

Dear Gurpreet Kaur,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

 

The City of London (CoL), sometimes also called the City of London
Corporation, acknowledges receipt of your four similar requests for
information of 1 March 2022 (attached), which we will be combining into
one request.

 

(Please note that, although the WDTK site lists the CoL at two places
under two different names –

[6]http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/city_...

[7]http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/commo...

- where your identical requests are listed, the CoL is in fact one legal
entity. Its full, official name is ‘The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens
of the City of London’. We have informed the WDTK website that it is
maintaining two sections for one body, and that it would be less confusing
for applicants if the site referred to the CoL under one name instead of
maintaining two lists and two names for the same legal entity, but it has
declined to make the change. For further clarification of the position of
the CoL under the FOIA, please see Paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 of the FOIA,
which describes the CoL as being subject to the FOIA with regard to 'The
Common Council of the City of London, in respect of information held in
its capacity as a local authority, police authority or port health
authority').

 

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the
statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working
day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public
authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

 

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the
“Square Mile”, ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a
whole. Please see the following page containing a link to a map (City of
London - Interactive Mapping), which shows the local authority area
covered by the CoL:

[8]https://www.mapping.cityoflondon.gov.uk/...

 

The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority
functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information
please see: [9]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Officer

Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department

City of London

Tel: 020-7332 1243

[10]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

 

THIS E-MAIL AND ANY ATTACHED FILES ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND MAY BE LEGALLY
PRIVILEGED. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction,
copying, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication
is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error
please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail.
Opinions, advice or facts included in this message are given without any
warranties or intention to enter into a contractual relationship with the
City of London unless specifically indicated otherwise by agreement,
letter or facsimile signed by a City of London authorised signatory. Any
part of this e-mail which is purely personal in nature is not authorised
by the City of London. All e-mail through the City of London's gateway is
potentially the subject of monitoring. All liability for errors and
viruses is excluded. Please note that in so far as the City of London
falls within the scope of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004, it may need to disclose this
e-mail. Website: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

References

Visible links
1. mailto:[email address]
2. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback
3. http://www.ico.org.uk/
4. mailto:[email address]
5. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/
6. http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/city_...
7. http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/commo...
8. https://www.mapping.cityoflondon.gov.uk/...
9. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/
10. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/