Educational Psychology Services provided by Tommy MacKay of Ardoch

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Dear Argyll and Bute Council,

Please can you provide for each year, starting from 2001 until 2019, the number of days and cost of Educational Psychology services provided by Tommy MacKay of Ardoch to the Council.

I am not sure under which business name he may have charged for his services, his business names are: Psychology Consultancy Services; Clinical Solutions and MacKay Associates.

Yours faithfully,

G E Paterson

Administrator,


Dear G E Paterson

Request for information: Educational Psychology Services provided by Tommy
MacKay of Ardoch

Thank you for your information request which we have logged as reference
argyllbuteir:12201.

It has been passed to the relevant service(s) for attention and you should
receive a response under either the Freedom of Information (Scot) Act 2002
or the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 by 2020-12-14
00:00:00. We hope to respond within this timescale but, due to the
staffing/capacity issues with COVID-19, some requests may take little
longer.

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Sinclair, David (Risk Management Assistant), Argyll and Bute Council

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Dear G E Paterson

 

Request for information: Educational Psychology Services provided by Tommy
MacKay of Ardoch

Reference: argyllbuteir:12201.

 

I refer to your request for information, which was dealt with in terms of
the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).

 

In fulfilment of your request, I can advise as follows:

 

Our Strategic Finance team have checked the current payables system (which
goes back to 2015/2016) and there are no payments to any of the private
Educational Psychology businesses you have mentioned.

 

Please note that we are not able to access payables archived information
at the moment due to IT issues, therefore we are unable to check back any
further than 2015/2016.

 

If you are dissatisfied with the way in which your request for information
has been dealt with you are entitled to request a review by writing to the
Executive Director Customer Services, Argyll and Bute Council, Kilmory,
Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8RT, or by email to [1][Argyll and Bute Council request email].

 

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correspondence, specify the request for information to which your request
for review relates and why you are dissatisfied with the response. 

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

David Sinclair

Compliance and Regulatory Assistant

Legal and Regulatory Support/Compliance

Argyll & Bute Council

Kilmory

PA31 8RT

Tel:01546604352

 

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Dear Sinclair, David (Risk Management Assistant),

I am writing to enquire if you have been able to resolve your IT issues and determine if any payment going past 2015/2016 for Tommy MacKay's businesses

Yours sincerely,

G E Paterson