Information Rights Unit
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Adam Tapscot
Central Mail Unit
Newcastle Upon Tyne
By email:
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Email xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
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www.gov.uk
Date: 17 January 2024
Our ref:
FOI2024/00031
Dear Adam Tapscot,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)
Thank you for your request, which was received on 3 January, for information in relation to
the recruitment campaign for the “Data Analyst” position (closing date: 31/07/23). We can
confirm that we hold the information requested as follow.
•
How many applications were received in total?
The total number of applications received was 846.
•
How many applicants were invited to an interview?
355 applicants were invited to an interview.
•
For each location, what was the minimum score to be put on the reserve list?
The minimum score to be placed on the reserve list was 26.
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For each location, how many people have received an offer?
Location Received an Offer
Belfast
10
Birmingham
<5
Bristol
<5
Cardiff
5
Edinburgh
<5
Glasgow
8
Liverpool
11
Leeds
9
Manchester
15
Newcastle
15
Nottingham
<5
Figures amounting to less than five have been withhel
d under section 40 of the
FOIA. Please refer to the ‘Exemption’ heading below for full context and reasoning.
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For each location, how many people have received an offer for their first
choice of location?
Al successful applicants were offered their first choice.
•
For each location, how many people have accepted an offer?
Al the offers made above have been accepted.
•
For each location, how many people were put on the reserve list?
Location Received an Offer
Belfast
<5
Birmingham
5
Bristol
<5
Cardiff
6
Edinburgh
<5
Glasgow
<5
Liverpool
<5
Leeds
<5
Manchester
<5
Newcastle
<5
Nottingham
<5
Figures amounting to less than five have been withhel
d under section 40 of the
FOIA. Please refer to the ‘Exemption’ heading below for full context and reasoning.
•
For each location, how many people on the reserve list have that location as
their first choice?
The reserve list is based on first choice location as this is the merit order we have
been following, they may have additional location choices.
•
For each location, how many people in reserve were put on more than one
location reserve list?
Al reserve list candidates were put on first choice location, second and third choice
were considered if first choice had been exhausted.
•
For each location, how many people offered a role were already working for
HMRC?
Location Received an Offer
Belfast
<5
Birmingham
5
Bristol
<5
Cardiff
<5
Edinburgh
<5
Glasgow
<5
Liverpool
6
Leeds
<5
Manchester
6
Newcastle
7
Nottingham
<5
Figures amounting to less than five have been withhel
d under section 40 of the
FOIA. Please refer to the ‘Exemption’ heading below for full context and reasoning.
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•
For each location, how many people offered a role were already working for
The Civil Service?
Location Received an Offer
Belfast
<5
Birmingham
<5
Bristol
<5
Cardiff
<5
Edinburgh
<5
Glasgow
<5
Liverpool
<5
Leeds
<5
Manchester
<5
Newcastle
<5
Nottingham
<5
Figures amounting to less than five have been withhel
d under section 40 of the
FOIA. Please refer to the ‘Exemption’ heading below for full context and reasoning.
•
For each location, if they have not hired for this role yet, what are the expected
dates that they will make offers?
Al business area alocations were filled.
Exemption
Where requested information contains the personal information of officials or members of
the public to a degree which is contrary to their expectation of privacy, this has been
withhel
d under section 40(2) FOIA.
Section 40(2) of the FOI Act, by virtue of section 40(3A) provides an absolute exemption for
third party personal data, where disclosure would contravene any of the data protection
principles set out in Article 5 of the General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
The first data protection principle requires that personal information is processed lawfully,
fairly and in a transparent manner; processing includes disclosure. Fairness means personal
data should only be handled in ways that people would reasonably expect and not used in
ways that may adversely affect them. Our candidates would reasonably expect that their
personal data would not be put into the public domain. Such a disclosure would be unfair
processing.
The exemption in section 40(2) is absolute, meaning that there is no need to weigh up the
public interest in releasing the information against the public interest in maintaining the
exemption. On this basis, al identifying information relating to HMRC candidates have been
withheld.
When considering disclosure of such information, HMRC must carefully weigh up the
likelihood of identification. In doing so HMRC refers to the ICO’s Anonymisation Code of
Practice which considers the application of a motivated intruder test.
In this case, we have concluded there is a reasonable risk information could be linked to an
identified individual if we provided an exact number. The requested information relates to a
small number of individuals. In order to reduce the risk of an individual being identified from
linkage with other data, we have provided the answer of ‘<5’ where applicable.
If you are not satisfied with our reply, you may request a review within 40 working days of
receiving this letter by emaili
ng xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx or by writing to our
address at the top.
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If you are not content with the outcome of an internal review you c
an complain to the
Information Commissioner’s Office.
Yours sincerely,
HM Revenue and Customs
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