Central Govt Funding as a Consequence of COVID 19 Pandemic
Dear Mole Valley District Council,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 200, I would be grateful if you could provide the following information in respect of:
funding received from Central Government as a consequence of the Covid 19 pandemic.
1) please itemise all funding received by date from central government from 1st March 2020 up to and including close of business 18th February 2021
2) of the total funding received can you please show to which service areas these funds have been allocated
3) within each service area, can you please give a breakdown as follows:-
- a description of the actual activity / project on which the funding has been spent and
the individual amounts spent
- any pending activity / project for which funding has been identified but not yet put into
place
- any activities or projects that have an ongoing cost and the frequency of these costs and
the start date and end date
4) for each service area details of the amounts of funding which have not been allocated to a specific project or activity within that service area.
Please can this be itemised in spreadsheet form
Yours faithfully,
Mr M P Hay
Dear Mr Hay
Thank you for your information request submitted under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
Please be advised that your request is being dealt with and you will
receive a response within 20 working days, which will be 19^th March 2021.
Regards
Kate Butcher
Customer Care Officer
Freedom of Information Officer
Mole Valley District Council
01306 885001
[1]www.molevalley.gov.uk
Dear Mr Hay
Thank you for your information request submitted under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
From our preliminary assessment, it is clear that we will not be able to
answer your request without further clarification.
Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 makes provision for
public authorities to refuse requests for information where the cost of
dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, which for this
authority is set at £450.
In order to provide you with the information on the scale that you have
requested would require a number of different service areas to interrogate
their systems to determine if the specific information is held in recorded
form. Because the information is not held in a single retrievable format
we estimate that it will take us in excess of the applicable time limit to
determine the appropriate material and locate, retrieve and extract the
information in reference to your request. This will place a significant
strain on Council resources which are already stretched and create a
diversion from delivering essential public services. Therefore, your
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Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9
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Further information regarding Coronavirus grant funding is published on
the GOV.UK website here:
[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio....
Regards
Kate Butcher
Customer Care Officer
Freedom of Information Officer
Mole Valley District Council
01306 885001
[2]www.molevalley.gov.uk
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