Expenditure - Payments to suppliers over £500

Dear George Porge,

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Dear George Porge,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Following your request of 22 April 2024, and our acknowledgement of the
same day, the City of London (CoL) responds as follows.

I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for
all transactions over £500 for the period November 2023 to March 2024.

Please provide the data in a machine-readable format (preferably csv). As
a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of
each transaction. Please also provide details on the procurement
category/description of each transaction if you have it.

The City of London can confirm that information in relation our
transaction spends over £500 can be found on our website:
[1]https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us...,
please note that this information relates to the period up to October
2023.

In regard to your request for information in relation to transactions over
£500, for the period November 2023- March 2024, we note that this request
has been exempted in accordance with section 22 of the Freedom of
Information Act, as this information is intended for future publication.

We are currently reviewing the transaction reports, and intended to
publish these on the following link, by the 31 July 2024. However we hope
to have the reports updated sooner, so we would recommend checking the
following website.

[2]https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us...

We hope that this response is of assistance.

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Yours sincerely,

Data & Reporting Team

Chamberlains Department

City of London Corporation

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From: George Porge

Sent: Monday, April 22, 2024 12:28 PM

To: COL-EB-InformationOfficer <[7][email address]>

Subject: Freedom of Information request - Expenditure - Payments to
suppliers over £500

Dear City of London Corporation,

I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for
all transactions over £500 for the period November 2023 to March 2024.

Please provide the data in a machine-readable format (preferably csv). As
a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of
each transaction. Please also provide details on the procurement
category/description of each transaction if you have it.

Yours faithfully,

George Porge

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