Transactions over £25,000 from September 2021

The request was successful.

Dear Judicial Appointments Commission,

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 August 2021.

We understand that due to the COVID-19 pandemic it may not have been a priority to publish your spending data. However, we strongly believe that the spending data is critical to understanding how Government functions and this data is vital for our work. We would be extremely grateful if you could update this information as soon as reasonably possible.

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £25,000 from September 2021 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,

Anna Pongracz

Spend Network

FOIA, Judicial Appointments Commission

Thank you for your email of 19 May 2022 concerning your Freedom of Information request.

The Judicial Appointments Commission has a statutory duty under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to provide a response to Freedom of Information requests within 20 working days. You should therefore receive a full response by 17 June 2022

In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any further assistance.

Kind regards,

Steven Ball
Corporate Services | Judicial Appointments Commission | M: 07394 715953
www.judicialappointments.gov.uk | LinkedIn | Twitter |

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Dear Ms Pongracz,

Please find attached response to your FOIA request dated 19 May 2022.

Kind regards,

Steven Ball
Corporate Services | Judicial Appointments Commission | M: 07394 715953
www.judicialappointments.gov.uk | LinkedIn | Twitter |

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Dear Judicial Appointments Commission,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

On 19 May 2022, I sent you an FOI request for your expenditure over £25,000 from September 2021 to present.

On 26 May 2022, 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,

Anna Pongracz

Spend Network

Thomson, Ian (JAC), Judicial Appointments Commission

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Dear Ms  Pongracz

 

Morning and further to your email, please see enclosed acknowledgement of
your request for an internal review.

 

regards

 

 

 

Ian Thomson
Head of Corporate Services | Judicial Appointments Commission | M:
07966224688

 

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Dear Ms  Pongracz

 

Afternoon and further to my recent  email, please see enclosed the outcome
of the internal review.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Ian Thomson
Head of Corporate Services | Judicial Appointments Commission | M:
07966224688

 

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From: Thomson, Ian (JAC)
Sent: 05 July 2022 11:04
To: [FOI #863139 email]
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Transactions
over £25,000 from September 2021

 

Dear Ms  Pongracz

 

Morning and further to your email, please see enclosed acknowledgement of
your request for an internal review.

 

regards

 

 

 

Ian Thomson
Head of Corporate Services | Judicial Appointments Commission | M:
07966224688

 

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working flexibly. Flexibility works for me but please do not feel any
pressure to respond outside of your own working pattern.

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