Council Expenditure or Payment to Suppliers from JUL 2019 to DEC 2019

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Dear Powys County Council,

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £500 from JUL 2019 to DEC 2019. Please provide the data in a machine readable format (preferably CSV). As a minimum, please be sure to include the date, value, recipient and the procurement category of each transaction.

For avoidance of doubt, I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act. I await your response within 20 working days.

Yours faithfully,
Nikhil Prabhu

Information Compliance, Powys County Council

 

Rheoli Gwybodaeth/

Information Compliance

Neuadd Y Sir / County Hall

Spa Road East

Llandrindod Wells

Powys LD1 5LG
  If calling please ask for / Os yn galw gofynnwch am

  Information Compliance

  Tel / Ffôn:  01597 82 7543        

  Email/Llythyru electronig: [1][email address]

  Our ref / Ein cyf:  F2020-0194

  Date / Dyddiad:   18/2/20
   

 

 

Request Accepted

 

FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000

Reference No: F2020-0194

 

Dear Ms Prabhu

 

Thank you for your request for information, received at this office on
18/2/20, in which you requested details of the following:

 

Transactions          

 

The above is a summary of your request. The full details of the
information sought is provided to the officer to whom the request is
tasked.

 

Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject
to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third
party. In some circumstances Powys County Council may be unable to achieve
this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a revised
time-scale at the earliest opportunity.

 

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of
the information you request. If this is the case you will be informed and
the 20 working day timescale will be suspended until we receive payment
from you. If you choose not to make a payment then your request will
remain unanswered.

 

Some requests may also require either full or partial transference to
another public authority in order to answer your query in the fullest
possible way. Again, you will be informed if this is the case.

 

The due date for responding to this request for information is 18/3/20

 

Should you need to discuss this further please contact the Information
Compliance Team on 01597 827543.

 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Powys County Council.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Compliance Team

 

 

We keep your details safe and we have updated our privacy notice in line
with the requirements set out in General Data Protection Regulations.  We
will only ever use the details you share with us to enable us to undertake
our statutory obligations.  You can find out more by looking on our web
site. [2]https://en.powys.gov.uk/privacy

 

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Dear Information Compliance,

May I request an update?

Yours faithfully,
nikhil prabhu

Information Compliance, Powys County Council

Dear Mr. Prahil

Further to your request number 2020 – 0194F - Transactions please be advised that as of 18th March, the Council invoked it’s Business Continuity Plans in response to Covid-19, which has seen all non-critical activity of the Council being stepped down to allow capacity to focus on business critical activities and for the redeployment and training of staff (including Information Compliance staff) to fulfil business critical roles. It has therefore been determined that all requests made under Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and General Data Protection Regulations will be paused until business resumes as normal. We will contact you when the Authority is in a position to recommence its information regime responsibilities. At this time we are unable to put a timescale to this.

The Information Commissioners Office as the Regulator acknowledges that public bodies maybe diverting staffing to deliver essential services, and as such is advising the public that they are likely to experience delays over their information requests, during these times. For more information on the ICO’s advice then please visit, their web pages https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-an... and https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/you...

We apologise for the inconvenience that this decision may cause to some individuals, however, at a time of national crisis I am sure you will understand that certain critical work needs to be prioritised, continued and underpinned.

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Dear Information Compliance,

Thank you for your response.
I would like to just check back with you periodically to see if you may have an update for me.

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Information Compliance, Powys County Council

2 Attachments

Vanessa Young, Corporate Director Rheoli Gwybodaeth/
(Resources and Transformation) /
Cyfarwyddwr Corfforaethol (Adnoddau Information Compliance
a Thrawsnewid)
Neuadd Y Sir / County Hall

Spa Road East

Llandrindod Wells

Powys LD1 5LG
If calling please ask for / Os yn galw
gofynnwch am

Tel / Ffôn: 01597 82 7543

Email/Llythyru electronig:
[1][email address]

Our ref / Ein cyf: 2020-0194F

Date / Dyddiad: 23/04/2020

Dear Nikhil

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 18/2/2020 concerning
Transactions

This is to inform you that your request has been considered and I can
provide the following response:

 

Request

 

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all
transactions over £500 from JUL 2019 to DEC 2019. Please provide the data
in a machine readable format (preferably CSV). As a minimum, please be
sure to include the date, value, recipient and the procurement category of
each transaction.

Response:

Please see attached.  There is some minimal redaction for personal data of
clients, where there is no expectation that their personal data would be
placed into the public realm.. 

 

Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires Powys County
Council, when refusing to provide such information (because the
information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which:

(a)  states that fact;

(b)  specifies the exemption in question and

(c)  states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption
applies.

Part of the information you requested is being withheld because it falls
under the exemption in section 40 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

 

Section 40 (2) applies to third party personal data. This would not be
released under the Freedom of Information Act unless there is strong
public interest to do so. This is because any release would breach the
Data Protection Principles as contained within the General Data Protection
Regulations.

Information released under the Freedom of Information is considered to be
released into the public domain, without caveat, not just to the
individual requesting the information. We believe that information
relating to identifiable individuals constitutes their personal data and
if released would contravene the first data protection principle.

The first principle of the General Data Protection Regulations states in
part that: “Personal data shall be processed “lawfully, fairly and in a
transparent manner in relation to data subjects” and, in particular, shall
not be processed unless at least one of the conditions in Article 6 is
met, and in the case of sensitive personal data, at least one of the
conditions in Article 9 is also met”.  We have to assess whether the
information relates to living individuals, whether an individual can be
identified from the information requested and whether it is biographically
significant.

 

We are obliged to comply with the first principle where we are required to
‘handle people’s personal data only in ways they would reasonable expect’.
It is reasonable in these circumstances that the identity of the
individuals and the information relating to them would not be disclosed in
response to a Freedom of Information request.

Therefore, based on the considerations above the exemption afforded under
Section 40 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is engaged and in
accordance with Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this
letter acts as a Refusal Notice for this element of your request.

 

We regret the delay you have experienced with this request. We acknowledge
that Powys County Council has failed in its obligation under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000, to provide you with a response to your request
within the statutory timescale of 20 working days. Please accept our
apologies for this and for any inconvenience this may have caused but
would hope that you understand that resources are being reassigned at this
time.

 

We believe that this request is now complete and shall be closed
immediately. Should any further information be requested regarding this
topic, a separate request will need to be submitted.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Powys County Council.

 

Yours sincerely,

Information Compliance Team

 

The supply of documents under Freedom of Information does not give the
person or organisation who receives them an automatic right to re-use the
documents in a way that would infringe copyright.

You are free to use any information supplied for your own use, including
for non-commercial research purposes. The information may also be used for
the purposes of news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for
example, by publishing the information or issuing copies to the public
will require the permission of the copyright owner.The copyright of most
of the information that we provide in response to Freedom of Information
Act requests will be owned by Powys County Council. The copyright in other
information may be owned by another person or organisation, as indicated
in the information itself.For HMSO Guidance Notes on a range of copyright
issues, see the Office of Public Sector Information(OPSI) website:
[2]http://www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/crown-copy...

 

If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received in relation to
your request and wish to make a complaint, please contact Information
Compliance. Our complaints procedure is available on request or on our
website.

If you are still not satisfied following this, you can make an appeal to
the Information Commissioner, who is the statutory regulator. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office

2nd floor

Churchill House

Churchill way

Cardiff

CF10 2HH

Tel: 0330 414 6421

Email: [3][email address]

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