Cost of Processing Freedom of Information

TABLE OF  
CONTENTS

• [1]Freedom  
of
Information Freedom of
Procedure Information
Procedure
 
Please note
• [2]Contact that the
Details Council
will
initially
assess your
request to
establish
whether it
is a valid
FOI and, if
so, you
will
receive a
response to
your
request
within the
statutory
20 clear
working
days.

Contact Details

Democratic Services
East Staffordshire Borough
Council
P.O. Box 8045
Burton upon Trent
DE14 9JG

[3]www.eaststaffsbc.gov.uk

[4][email address]

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Good afternoon

Thank you for your recent request - please see below the answer to your
questions.

┌─────────────────────┬────────────────┬────────────────┬────────────────┐
│  │ 22/23 │ 21/22 │ 20/21 │
├─────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┤
│Total number of staff│ 2 x members of │2 x members of │2 x members of │
│hired with │staff (0.25 FTE)│staff (0.25 FTE)│staff (0.25 FTE)│
│responsibility for │ │ │ │
│freedom of │ │ │ │
│information requests,│ │ │ │
│(full time │ │ │ │
│equivalent) │ │ │ │
├─────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┤
│Total salary costs │ £26,845 │ £24,920 │ £24,491 │
│for staff with │ │ │ │
│responsibility for │ │ │ │
│freedom of │ │ │ │
│information requests.│ │ │ │
├─────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┤
│Total for all other │Information not │Information not │Information not │
│costs associated with│ held │ held │ held │
│handling freedom of │ │ │ │
│information requests │ │ │ │
├─────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┤
│Total number of │ 963 requests │ 980 requests │ 947 requests │
│freedom of │ received, 654 │ received, 828 │ received, 855 │
│information requests │ responded to │ responded to │ responded to │
│received, and total │ │ │ │
│number responded with│ │ │ │
│the requested │ │ │ │
│information │ │ │ │
└─────────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────────┘

If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may ask the Council to
conduct a review of this decision. To do this, please contact the Council
in writing (including by letter, fax or email), describe the original
request, explain your grounds for dissatisfaction, and include an address
for correspondence. You have 40 working days from receipt of this letter
to submit a review request. The review request should be sent to:

By Post:

The Principal Democratic Services Officer East Staffordshire Borough
Council P O Box 8045 Burton upon Trent Staffordshire

DE14 9JG

By Email: [1][email address]

When the review process has been completed, if you are still dissatisfied,
you may ask the Information Commissioner to intervene.

Kind regards,

Daniel Caulkett

Democratic Services Officer

East Staffordshire Borough Council

The Town Hall

King Edward Place

Burton upon Trent

Staffordshire

DE14 9UG

01283 508608

www.eaststaffsbc.gov.uk

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