Transactions over £25,000 from March 2019

The request was refused by Youth Justice Board for England and Wales.

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for publishing your spend data here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collection.... However, I notice that you haven't published any spending data since February 2019.

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £25,000 from March 2019 to a month in arrears from the date at which you publish in response to this request.

Please provide the data in a machine readable format (preferably csv). As a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of each transaction. Please also provide details on the procurement category of each transaction if you have it.

Your team may also be interested in the guidance on producing spending data:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio....

For the avoidance of doubt, I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act. I await your response within 20 working days.

Yours Faithfully,

Dora Homoki

Spend Network

YJB Enquiries, Youth Justice Board for England and Wales

Dear Ms Homoki,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request below.

We will formally reply by 16/08/19.

Kind regards,

Michael Hitchin
Business Support Manager
5th Floor Clive House |70 Petty France| London | SW1H 9EX
T: 020 3334 5598
Email: [email address] | Website: www.gov.uk/yjb

Working to ensure every child lives a safe and crime-free life and makes a positive contribution to society
Visit the Youth Justice Resource Hub for the latest youth justice information, training and support.

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YJB Enquiries, Youth Justice Board for England and Wales

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Dear Spend Network,

Please see our formal reply to your freedom of information request below, attached.

Kind regards,

Michael Hitchin
Business Support Manager
5th Floor Clive House |70 Petty France| London | SW1H 9EX
T: 020 3334 5598
Email: [email address] | Website: www.gov.uk/yjb

Working to ensure every child lives a safe and crime-free life and makes a positive contribution to society
Visit the Youth Justice Resource Hub for the latest youth justice information, training and support.

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Dear Youth Justice Board for England and Wales,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
Dear Sir or Madam,

On 17 July 2019, I sent you an FOI request for your expenditure over £25,000 from March 2019 to present. It was allocated the reference 201930.

On 9 August 2019, you refused my request citing Section 22 of the FOI Act as grounds for an exemption.

However, the guidance for publishing spend data for government departments states:
2.10 Spend is to be published one month in arrears, ie by the last working day of the month following the month to which the data relates. If the data is available before the end of the month, it should be published as soon as the department has cleared it for release. This data is to be published in individual monthly files.
2.11 You should not hold up the publication of your data where you have unresolved individual queries. You should publish the cleared data within the publication timescales, and amend the data at a later date if necessary. See section 2.5 for further detail on applying redactions to the data.

Please see here for more details: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio....

This means that the data should already be published. For this reason, I would like to request an Internal Review of the initial response to my Freedom of Information request.

Please also take note of this decision notice from the ICO on the use of Section 22 of the FOI Act in these circumstances: https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-tak...

I await your response within 20 working days.

Yours Faithfully,

Dora Homoki

Spend Network

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