Information about your funding to Stonewall

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Dave Bratt - Voice for Justice UK

Dear NHS Blood and Transplant,

1. In respect of each of the years 2015-2021, please confirm what funding has been provided to Stonewall by:

NHS Blood and Transplant

2. Please specify whether the funding in 1 above has been in the form of:
(a) direct grants for unlimited purposes;
(b) direct grants for limited purposes (in that event, stating the purpose);
(c) payment for goods or services (specifying the relevant goods and services).

3. Where the funding in 1 above has been by way of payment for goods or services, please specify:
(a) what analysis has been conducted to ascertain whether these goods or services meet contractual and/or legal requirements;
(b) what contractual or other recourse exists to reclaim in respect of goods or services that are defective, substandard or delivered in contravention of the law;
(c) what steps are being taken to seek recourse for any such contractual or legal shortfalls.

4. In respect of the payments referred to in 1 above, please state:
(a) What criteria were applied in deciding to make payments by way of direct grants;
(b) What tendering process was conducted with regard to provision of goods or services;
(c) What alternative suppliers of goods or services were considered.

Yours faithfully,

Dave Bratt - Voice for Justice UK

Customer Services, NHS Blood and Transplant

Our ref:  MOC/ 434654

 

Acknowledgement : Information request

 

Dear David Bratt

Thank you for your request for information.

 

I acknowledge your request to access information from NHS Blood and
Transplant (NHSBT) and am presently dealing with your request under the
terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.   We aim to reply within 20
working days, 5^th January 2022.

  

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Wayne Lawley

Head of Corporate Communications

E-mail: [1][email address]

 

 

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Our ref: MOC/ 434654

6th January 2022

 

 

Dear David Bratt

 

Re: Information request

 

Thank you for your request dated 4^th December 2021 for information from
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) as stipulated below:

 

1. In respect of each of the years 2015-2021, please confirm what funding
has been provided to Stonewall by: NHS Blood and Transplant

 

2. Please specify whether the funding in 1 above has been in the form of:

(a) direct grants for unlimited purposes;

(b) direct grants for limited purposes (in that event, stating the
purpose);

(c) payment for goods or services (specifying the relevant goods and
services).

 

3. Where the funding in 1 above has been by way of payment for goods or
services, please specify:

(a) what analysis has been conducted to ascertain whether these goods or
services meet contractual and/or legal requirements;

(b) what contractual or other recourse exists to reclaim in respect of
goods or services that are defective, substandard or delivered in
contravention of the law;

(c) what steps are being taken to seek recourse for any such contractual
or legal shortfalls.

 

4. In respect of the payments referred to in 1 above, please state:

(a) What criteria were applied in deciding to make payments by way of
direct grants;

(b) What tendering process was conducted with regard to provision of goods
or services;

(c) What alternative suppliers of goods or services were considered.

 

Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000 NHSBT is obliged to:

 

o Let you know whether we hold the information you have requested
o Provide you with the requested information, if held, (subject to any
exemptions under the Act which may apply).

 

I can confirm that NHSBT holds some of the information you have
requested. 

 

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a Special Health Authority reporting
to the Department of Health and Social Care. Its remit includes the
provision of a reliable, efficient supply of blood and associated services
to the NHS in England. It is also the organ donor organisation for the
whole of the UK and is responsible for matching and allocating donated
organs.

 

If you seek information from the Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish Blood
Services you are required to contact them directly.

 

1.    NHSBT have paid the following to Stonewall.

 

+-------------+
|Year|Funding |
| |provided|
|----+--------|
|2015|£0 |
|----+--------|
|2016|£760.00 |
|----+--------|
|2017|£0 |
|----+--------|
|2018|£2500.00|
|----+--------|
|2019|£3737.00|
|----+--------|
|2020|£2500.00|
|----+--------|
|2021|£5717.50|
+-------------+

 

2 a&b No information held, there have been no direct grants.

c. Goods and services:

·         Stonewall membership – annual subscription,

·         LGBT+History month,

·         Webinar sessions,

·         Online session delivery for LGBT+ History month,

·         Tickets for Network Group resources and Masterclass, and
conference.

 

3 a&b Stonewall is a leading provider of equality services for the NHS and
was contacted directly by NHSBT. Due to NHSBT contractual thresholds
(Standing Financial instructions & Standing Orders), no competitive
procurement or formal contract has been required for the work undertaken
by Stonewall to date.

 

The services purchased directly with Stonewall are subject to NHS standard

terms and conditions:

[2]https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...

 

c. No information held, there has not been a requirement to seek recourse.

 

4a. No information held, there have been no direct grants

b.  Stonewall is a leading provider of equality services for the NHS and
was contacted directly by NHSBT. Due to NHSBT contractual thresholds
(Standing Financial instructions & Standing Orders), no competitive
procurement or formal contract was required for the work undertaken by
Stonewall to date.

 

The services purchased directly with Stonewall are subject to NHS standard

terms and conditions:

[3]https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...

 

c. No alternative suppliers were considered due to the reasons stipulated
above.

 

If you are dissatisfied with the response to your request you can ask for
a review of the handling of your request for information. Details of the
complaints procedure are below:

 

Any person who has requested information from NHSBT, which has been dealt
with under the FOIA is entitled to make a complaint and request an
internal review of the handling of their request if they are dissatisfied
with the response they have received. If you would like us to conduct such
a review, as per guidance from the Information Commissioners Office (ICO)
please contact us within forty working days of this letter. Please quote
the reference number above in any future communications.

 

Yours sincerely

Dan Jeffery

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) &

Assistant Director Data

And

Wayne Lawley

Head of Corporate Communications

 

E-mail: [4][email address]

 

 

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NHS Blood and Transplant
Do something amazing today - Give Blood.
Organ donation. The gift of life.
You can visit us at [5]www.nhsbt.nhs.uk
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and not
necessarily those of NHS Blood and Transplant.
This text confirms that this e-mail message and its attachments have been
swept for the presence of computer viruses by NHS Blood and Transplant,
however we cannot guarantee that they are virus free.
All e-mails and their attachments to and from the nhsbt.nhs.uk domain may
be archived, and their contents monitored.

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