April - Sept 2017 spend data

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Dear Her Majesty’s Treasury,

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 March.

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £25,000 from April to September 2017. 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,

Helen McNally

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Please find attached HM Treasury's response to your Freedom of Information request. Below is the link cited in the attached response:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collection...

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Dear Her Majesty’s Treasury,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Her Majesty’s Treasury's handling of my FOI request 'April - Sept 2017 spend data'.

On the 10th of November 2017, I sent you an FOI request for your expenditure over £25,000 from April to September 2017.

On the 5th of December, 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 the attached decision notice from the ICO on the use of Section 22 of the FOI Act in these circumstances.

I await your response within 20 working days.

Yours Faithfully,

Helen McNally

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Dear Ms McNally

 

Please find attached a response to your internal review request.

 

Regards

 

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