FOI on contingent workers

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Dear NHSX,

1. How many contingent workers (contractors, temps, freelancers) used from 2010-2020 give breakdown by year?
2. What is the annual spend on contingent workers (last financial year)?

Yours faithfully,

Daryll Cashmore

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FOITEAMCRMMAILBOX (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24),

Dear Daryll Cashmore,

Thank you for your communication dated 20 February 2021.

NHS England has assessed your communication as a request under the Freedom
of Information (FOI) Act 2000. As such, please be assured that your
request is being dealt with under the terms of the FOI Act and will be
answered within twenty working days.

For further information regarding the FOI Act, please refer to the
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website. For further information
regarding NHS England and the information it publishes please visit our
website here.

If you have any queries about this request or wish to contact us again,
please email [1][email address] and the message will be
forwarded appropriately. Please remember to quote the above reference
number in any future communications.

Please do not reply to this email. This message has been sent from a
central mailbox. To communicate with NHS England regarding Freedom of
Information (FOI) requests, enquiries or complaints we ask these are sent
directly to NHS England’s customer contact centre. This is to ensure all
communications are progressed correctly. Their postal address, telephone
number and email details are as follows:- PO Box 16738, Redditch, B97 9PT;
0300 3 11 22 33, [2][email address].

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information
Communications Team
Office of the Chairs, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer

NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT

Tel: 0300 311 22 33
Email: [3][email address]

‘Health and High quality care for all, now and for future generations’

 

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Dear FOITEAMCRMMAILBOX (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24),

My request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, the authority should have responded by now and had to do so within 20 working days of the original request.

Yours sincerely,

Daryll Cashmore

FOITEAMCRMMAILBOX (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24),

Dear Daryll Cashmore,

Thank you for your email below regarding Freedom of Information request
reference FOI-2102-1340523.

We sincerely apologise for the delay in responding. We recognise that
there is no provision within the FOI Act to extend the timeframe for a
response, and understand that this delay may be frustrating. NHS England
is at this stage unable to comment upon the Freedom of Information request
as the request is still being processed.

NHS England will be happy to conduct an Internal Review into the delay
associated with your request (plus any elements of the content of the
response as directed by you) once a response has been provided. Meanwhile,
you are entitled to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a 
decision. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can be contacted at
the following weblink:
 
[1]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Please note there is no charge for making an appeal.

Please be aware that in line with the Information Commissioner’s directive
on the disclosure of information under the FOI Act, your request will be
anonymised and published on our website as part of our disclosure log.

Please do not reply to this email. This message has been sent from a
central mailbox. To communicate with NHS England regarding Freedom of
Information (FOI) requests, enquiries or complaints we ask these are sent
directly to NHS England’s customer contact centre. This is to ensure all
communications are progressed correctly. Their postal address, telephone
number and email details are as follows: PO Box 16738, Redditch, B97 9PT;
0300 3 11 22 33, [2][email address].

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information
Communications Team
Office of the Chairs, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer

NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT

Tel: 0300 311 22 33
Email: [3][email address]

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FOITEAMCRMMAILBOX (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24),

Dear Daryll Cashmore,  

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request dated 20 February
2021. Please accept out sincere apologies for the delay in responding to
your request.

Your exact request was:

“1. How many contingent workers (contractors, temps, freelancers) used
from 2010-2020 give breakdown by year?
2. What is the annual spend on contingent workers (last financial year)?”

NHS England holds information in relation to your request.

NHS X was formed in 2019. As such, NHS X would only be able to provide
data from 2019 onwards.

NHS X had 4 contingent workers that started in 2019, and 169 contingent
workers that started in 2020.

NHS England holds information in relation to the annual spend on
contingent workers in 2020/2021. However, as the information held is in
the public domain, we will under Section 21 of the FOI Act (information
accessible to the applicant by other means) refer you to the published
source:
 

* [1]https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/up...

We hope this information is helpful. However, if you are dissatisfied, you
have the right to ask for an internal review. This should be requested in
writing within two months of the date of this letter. Your correspondence
should be labelled “Internal Review” and should outline your concerns
and/or the area(s) you would like the review to consider. Internal Review
requests should be sent to:

NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT

Email: [2][email address]

Please quote the reference number FOI-2102-1340523 in any future
communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can be contacted at
the following weblink:
 
[3]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Please note there is no charge for making an appeal.

Please be aware that in line with the Information Commissioner’s directive
on the disclosure of information under the FOI Act, your request will be
anonymised and published on our website as part of our disclosure log.

Please do not reply to this email. This message has been sent from a
central mailbox. To communicate with NHS England regarding Freedom of
Information (FOI) requests, enquiries or complaints we ask these are sent
directly to NHS England’s customer contact centre. This is to ensure all
communications are progressed correctly. Their postal address, telephone
number and email details are as follows: PO Box 16738, Redditch, B97 9PT;
0300 3 11 22 33, [4][email address].

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information
Communications Team
Office of the Chairs, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer

NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT

Tel: 0300 311 22 33
Email: [email address]
 

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