Procurement & Oversight of Welcome to Yorkshire

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Dear FOI

I am trying to discover the procurement and governance arrangements regarding your procurement, oversight and evaluation of activities and services procured from Welcome to Yorkshire

1. For every year since 2010 please provide recorded information of all payments made by the authority to Welcome to Yorkshire. Please identify within those payments those payments related to a) subscriptions, b) those related to TDF and TDY and other cycle races and (c) other matters

2. As Welcome to Yorkshire is it seems a private company, yet in receipt of tens of millions of taxpayers investment, without public sector ownership, the authority has to procure within EU, UK public sector procurement rules and your own authority requirements. Accordingly, please provide within this request in (1) for each financial year since 2014/5 -2018/9 (to date) an annotation of where the spend decision was made, if a tender or other process was undertaken and specific committee/Exec Member or Officer recorded decision & report. If no decision record please advise.

3. Please confirm and provide recorded information that, as this is a private company, that you satisfied yourselves and members that at no time were you breaching State Aid rules. If no such record exits please advise.

4. Please provide for each cycle race the business case and evaluation as submitted to members. If none provided please advise.

5. Please confirm if any internal audits were undertaken by your authority on any expenditure with W2Y, please provide all recorded information on these. If none undertaken, please advise.

Yours faithfully,

Gwen Swinburn

Information Requests, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

Good afternoon Gwen,

Ref: FOIA3720

Re: Request for Information – Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request for information about the procurement and governance arrangements regarding Welcome to Yorkshire.

Your email request was received on 26 March 2019 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request will be processed as soon as possible, and we will try to provide the information within 20 working days as required. The deadline date when the information should be available to you is 25 April 2019.

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case, I will let you know the likely charges before proceeding.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Thank you

Cathryn Copley
Customer Feedback & Improvement Officer
Business Improvement & Communications
Core Services Directorate
Westgate Plaza One
Barnsley MBC
C/O Corporate Mail Room
PO Box 634
Barnsley
S70 9GG

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Information Requests, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

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Good afternoon Gwen,
Please find attached the results of my findings for your FOI request.
Thank you

Cathryn Copley
Customer Feedback, Information & Improvement Officer
Business Improvement & Communications
Core Services Directorate
Westgate Plaza One
Barnsley MBC
C/O Corporate Mail Room
PO Box 634
Barnsley
S70 9GG

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