Brexit Assessments
Dear Scottish Water Business Stream Limited,
This is a Freedom of Information request. I am interested in information from held by your organisation that relates to the process of planning and preparing for a possible future when the UK may not be a member of the European Union ("Brexit").
In particular:
1. How much has been spent on external consultants or support to advise on the implications and consequences of brexit, or recommend actions to mitigate any possible brexit impacts? If spend has occurred, please confirm the name of the supplier or suppliers and copies of any material produced by this process.
2. Please supply copies of any brexit planning documentation held by the organisation or consumed by senior management. This may include, but should not be limited to, Risk Assessments, Action Plans, Meeting minutes, Reports and presentations.
3. Please supply technical or advisory briefing documentation on brexit that has been produced by the organisation and supplied to other government agencies or bodies.
4. Please supply copies of any technical or advisory documentation that has been supplied to the agency from other public bodies that relates to Brexit contingency planning.
5. Please supply details of any assessment that has been made of the financial impact on the organisation, either positive or negative, of the brexit process. Has the organisation set-aside a contingency fund or invested as a direct consequence of the brexit process? If so, please provide summary details.
Please provide the requested information in electronic format. I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Ally Tibbitt
Dear Mr Tibbitt
I am writing in response to your Freedom of Information request of 22 September regarding Business Stream's planning and preparation for a possible future when the UK may not be a member of the European Union ("Brexit").
As Business Stream operations are UK based servicing UK-based customers (ie we are a water retailer operating in the British market with no overseas activity, whose services are entirely within the UK) we have given Brexit limited consideration. In response to your specific questions:
1. No spend on external consultants or support.
2. None, as no Brexit planning documentation has been prepared.
3. None, as we have not produced any technical or advisory briefing documentation on Brexit.
4. None, as we have not received any copies of any technical or advisory documentation from other public bodies that relates to Brexit contingency planning.
5. No assessment has been made of the financial impact on the organisation, either positive or negative, of the Brexit process. As such, we have not set-aside a contingency fund or invested as a direct consequence of the Brexit process.
I trust that this information will be satisfactory to answer your enquiries. For information provided under FOISA you can appeal if you are dissatisfied with the outcome. You must appeal within the period of 40 working days commencing on 10 October 2018. On receiving your request for a review of this response, we will conduct an internal review which will be undertaken by an independent team whose members were not involved in responding to the initial request. Business Stream is required to complete internal reviews within 20 working days. Please address any such appeal to the Director of Regulation and Strategy in writing; to the address on the letter head, or by email. If you are emailing can you please use the email address [email address]
If your request for information is not resolved to your satisfaction at that stage, you can appeal further to the Scottish Information Commissioner, the independent body which oversees the implementation of FOISA www.itspublicknowledge.info/appeal
Regards
Fiona Matheson | Regulation and Market Analyst Regulation and Compliance Business Stream | 7 Lochside View | Edinburgh | EH12 9DH business-stream.co.uk t 0131 338 3240
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