Details of Policy & Partnerships Budget

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Dear Liverpool City Council,

In your response to a previous FOI request (http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/re...), your reference 193512, you stated, regarding the Divisional Manager for Policy and Partnerships, that:
"The Net budget is £21,272,379 and the staffing budget is £3,553,830".
This means that the non-staff budget for which this manager is responsible is £17,718,549. Could you please:
a) state which financial year these figures apply to, and
b) provide a high level breakdown of the costs the non-staff portion of the budget was allocated to cover, if possible related to the broad areas of responsibility indicated in the job description that you provided in the same response.

Yours faithfully,

Catherine Byrne

Jawahier Sharif Ali, Liverpool City Council

Dear Ms Byrne,

Acknowledgement of your request for information.
Thank you for your recent correspondence requesting information from the
City Council.  Your request was received in our offices on 29 May 2012
and, is being processed in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

The information you have requested can be summarised as follows:

- In your response to a previous FOI request
(http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/re...),
your reference 193512, you stated, regarding the Divisional Manager for
Policy and Partnerships, that: "The Net budget is £21,272,379 and the
staffing budget is £3,553,830".
This means that the non-staff budget for which this manager is responsible
is £17,718,549. Could you please:

a) state which financial year these figures apply to, and

b) provide a high level breakdown of the costs the non-staff portion of
the budget was allocated to cover, if possible related to the broad areas
of responsibility indicated in the job description that you provided in
the same response.

If the above summary is incorrect or you wish to change any details, let
me know at the earliest opportunity.

A response will be sent to you as soon as possible and in any case within
the statutory deadline which is 20 working days from the working day after
your request was received.

For your information, the Act defines a number of exemptions which may
prevent the release of information you have requested. There will be an
assessment and, if any of the exemption categories apply, the information
will not be provided to you.  You will be informed if this is the case

Please quote the above reference number in all future communications.

Regards 
Jawahier Sharif Ali (Fatima)
Information Officer
Legal Service
Liverpool City Council
Municipal Buildings
Dale Street,
Liverpool
L2 2DH
Tel: 0151 225 3132
Email: [1][email address].uk 
Website: [2]www.liverpool.gov.uk

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Dear Jawahier Sharif Ali,

By law you should have responded to this request by 27 June - which was yesterday. Could you please let me know when I will receive a response?

Cordially

Catherine Byrne

Dear Liverpool City Council,

I reminded Jawahier Sharif Ali last week that I should have received an answer to this request on 27 June.
To date no information has been received, and no explanation of the delay given.
This is a straightforward request, and I would ask that you provide the information requested without any further delay.

Cordially,

Catherine Byrne

Glanville, Andrea, Liverpool City Council

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Dear Ms Byrne

 

I am dealing with this request and apologies for the delay I will look to
get the response done in the next couple of days.

 

Regards

 

 

 

 

Andrea Glanville I Information & Practice Manager
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverpool I
L2 2DH
T: 0151 225  2709 I E: [1][email address]
Online: [2]www.liverpool.gov.uk

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Andrea Glanville, Liverpool City Council

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Dear Ms Byrne
Please see atttached response to request - apologies for the delay.
Regards
A Glanville

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Dear Ms Glanville,

Thank you for your response, which I reproduce below.
I am not sure I understand the information provided, however, and have therefore asked for some clarification - detailed after the text of your response.

"I refer to your request of 29 May 2012 under the FOIA. You requested the following:

In your response to a previous FOI request your reference 193512, you stated, regarding the Divisional Manager for Policy and Partnerships, that:” The Net budget is £21,272,379 and the staffing budget is £3,553,830".

This means that the non-staff budget for which this manager is responsible is £17,718,549. Could you please:

a) state which financial year these figures apply to, and

b) provide a high level breakdown of the costs the non-staff portion of the budget was allocated to cover, if possible related to the broad areas of responsibility indicated in the job description that you provided in the same response.
I can confirm the Council holds the information you have requested.
In response to the first point the information provided previously related to 2012/13.
In response to the second point I list below the high level breakdown

Breakdown of Recharge Income

Budget
Recharge to Other Departments 815,193.20-
Recharge to Other A/Cs 727,477.00-
Recharges - CSSR 3,705,979.77-
Recharges - CDC 2,672,180.85-
Recharges - Portfolio 8,116,668.77-
16,037,499.59-

This concludes our response to your request and I would take this opportunity to apologise for the delay in my response."

Could you please clarify the following:

1) What the abbreviations CSSR and CDC mean.
2) What "Portfolio" means.
3) Why the total figure (£16,037,499.59) does not equal the figure (£17,718,549) provided in the previous response, for which I requested the breakdown. The difference is almost £1.7 million. Has a category been omitted?

I would emphasise that this is not a further request, it is merely a request for clarification, and as such I would hope it will be dealt with promptly.

Thank you

Catherine Byrne

Dear Ms. Glanville,

I asked for clarification of your response to this request a week ago.
Would you please confirm that a) you received my request, and b) that you will provide the information requested without further delay.

Cordially,

Catherine Byrne

Dear Ms. Glanville,

I asked for clarification of your response to this request a week ago.
Would you please confirm that a) you received my request, and b) you will provide the information requested without further delay.

Cordially,

Catherine Byrne

Glanville, Andrea, Liverpool City Council

Dear Ms Byrne

Can you please ensure you direct any queries etc to the following email address:

[email address]

Due to other priorities I do not always access my emails on a daily basis - if you forward it to the team address it will get picked up on a daily basis - I do not appear to have received your earlier eamil

Regards

Andrea Glanville
Legal Services
Liverpool City Council
Municipal Buildings
Dale Street
Liverpool
L2 2DH
Telephone 0151 225 2709
Fax: 0151 225 2392
email: [email address]

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Dear Liverpool City Council,

In a delayed response to an email, Ms Glanville explained that she does not check her emails frequently and asked me to reply to a team email address which she wrote in the body of her message.
You may not be aware, but whatdotheyknow does not display email addresses, so I cannot actually see the email address she provided. Hopefully it is this one. If not, please spell out the address without symbols (i.e., john dot smith at liverpool...... etc etc).
And could someone please provide the information I requested in the original message to Ms Glanville, dated 9 July?

Cordially,

Catherine Byrne

Information Requests, Liverpool City Council

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Dear Ms Byrne,

Thank you for your email and this is the correct team email address. With regard to this FOI, note that Ms Glanville sent you the final response on 09 July 2012.

I attached with email another copy for your records.

Regards,

Jawahier Sharif Ali (Fatima) I Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverpool I L2 2DH
T: 0151 225 3132 I F: 0151 225 2392 I E: [email address]
Online: www.liverpool.gov.uk

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Dear Liverpool City Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Liverpool City Council's handling of my FOI request 'Details of Policy & Partnerships Budget'.

I received a belated response to this request which contained acronyms and otherwise impenetrable information. Since I was attempting to understand what this considerable amount of money is allocated to be spent on, this was not a helpful response. The total did not even match the original figure given, and no explanation of the £million plus difference was given. I asked for clarification of these matters last week, and was informed today the response provided was a final one. Which I assume means you are unwilling to provide this clarification.
So I have no alternative but to request an internal review. I hope this can be dealt with promptly, since the 20 working day deadline for the original response actually expired over 2 weeks ago.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/de...

Yours faithfully,

Catherine Byrne

Information Requests, Liverpool City Council

Dear Ms Byrne,

Thank you for your email received 18 July 2012. This case is now re-opened as internal review. Note that the matter will be dealt with by an officer who was not previously involved with the response and we will look to provide a response within 28 working days.

Jawahier Sharif Ali (Fatima) I Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverpool I L2 2DH
T: 0151 225 3132 I F: 0151 225 2392 I E: [email address]
Online: www.liverpool.gov.uk

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Symm, Kevin, Liverpool City Council

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Dear Ms Byrne

 

I will be co-ordinating the City Council’s internal review of the above
FOI reference number

 

Before I begin could you clarify that you are happy for me to conduct our
review based on the following:

 

1)       What the abbreviations CSSR and CDC mean.

 

2)       What "Portfolio" means.

 

3)       Why the total figure (£16,037,499.59) does not equal the figure
(£17,718,549) provided in the previous response, for which I requested the
breakdown. The difference is almost £1.7 million. Has a category been
omitted?

 

I have taken this from your email of the 9 July and reviewed your
subsequent email of the 17 July.

 

Could you confirm you are happy with the summary above I will communicate
our response as quickly as possible

 

Regards,

 

Kevin Symm I Senior Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverpool I
L2 2DH
T: 0151 225 3132 I E: [1][email address]
Online: [2]www.liverpool.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Symm,

It's a little more than simply defining the acronyms , and what the portfolio refers to (the policy and partnerships department or section, presumably). Pointing out that I did not understand the acronyms was a way of illustrating what the problem is.
I am trying to find out what kind of things the money is to be spent on - categories of goods, services, etc. I tried to make this clear in the original question, which also assumed that the goods and services could be related to the areas of responsibility in thejob description. So this is actually what I would like your internal review to focus on.

Cordially,

Catherine Byrne

Symm, Kevin, Liverpool City Council

Dear Ms Byrne

Would you be happy for me to add to the requirements of the internal review an element concerning general clarification of our original response dated 9 July?

Regards,

Kevin Symm I Senior Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverpool I L2 2DH
T: 0151 225 3132 I E: [email address]
Online: www.liverpool.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Symm,

Yes, that sounds right.
Thank you.

Catherine Byrne

Symm, Kevin, Liverpool City Council

Dear Ms Byrne

Thanks for getting back to me.

I will initiate our review and communicate our response as soon as possible

Regards,

Kevin Symm I Senior Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverpool I L2 2DH
T: 0151 225 3132 I E: [email address]
Online: www.liverpool.gov.uk

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Kevin Symm, Liverpool City Council

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Please find attached response
Regards,

Kevin Symm I Senior Information Officer
Liverpool City Council I Municipal Buildings I Dale Street I Liverpool I
L2 2DH
T: 0151 225 3132 I E: [1][email address]
Online: [2]www.liverpool.gov.uk

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