Expenditure or Payment to Suppliers from July to December 2020

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Dear East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership,

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £500 from 1st July 2020 to 31st December 2020. As a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of each transaction. Please also provide details on the procurement category of each transaction if you have it & any additional descriptors.

In particular I am looking for itemized transactions for suppliers from July to December 2020 - preferably in CSV format. For avoidance of doubt, I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act. I await your response in ~20 working days.

Thank you,
Yours faithfully,
Nikhil Prabhu

East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership

Dear Nikhil Prabhu

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East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership
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Dear Nikhil Prabhu,

 

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Freedom Of Information, East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership

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Our Ref:  2021/744306  

 

Dear Mr Prabhu

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2004

 

Further to your enquiry of 10 February, on behalf of East Lothian Council
I am now able to provide our response; please refer to the attachments.

 

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Customer Feedback and FOI Team

People and Governance

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Yours sincerely

 

Shelley Neville

Freedom of Information Team

East Lothian Council

John Muir House

Haddington

EH41 3HA

 

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Information about East Lothian Council’s complaints procedure can be found
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Details of your rights to requesting information from East Lothian Council
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Dear Freedom Of Information,

Thank you Ms Shelley Neville.

Sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu

Freedom Of Information, East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership

Thank you for your email.

 

This automated message is East Lothian Council’s acknowledgement that your
information request has been received and is receiving attention.  The
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Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 20 working days
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Internal Reviews 20 working days

 

CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC

 

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Freedom of Information Team

East Lothian Council

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EH41 3HA

 

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Information about East Lothian Council’s complaints procedure can be found
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Details of your rights to requesting information from East Lothian Council
are published [4]here.

 

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Mutch, Richard,

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Enclosed is NHS Lothian’s response to your FOI Request.

 

If you require a signed copy or anything else please let me know.

 

Thanks

Richard

 

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Dear Mutch, Richard,

Thank you for this.

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu