Intranet Queries

Louis James made this Environmental Information Regulations request to Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal
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Dear Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal,

I am writing to make a request for all the information to which I am entitled under Freedom of Information Act 2000. My requests are outlined below as specifically as possible to help you retrieve the information required. However, if any of the below is unclear, I would appreciate if you could contact me as I understand that under the act, you are required to assist requesters.

Please could you provide the following information:

1) How many employees are working for your organisation, including full-time, part-time, and contracted staff?
2) What is your annual intranet budget?
3) What is your current intranet solution? (e.g. Invotra, Sharepoint, Kahootz, Umbraco)
4) How long have you been using this solution, and when does your contract expire?
5) Do you work with an external partner to supply your intranet? If not, do you develop your intranet internally?
6) Which team/individual is responsible for managing your intranet internally?
7) Which other organisations have access to your intranet?
8) Do you share IT services with other organisations?
9) Are you using the Office 365 suite? If so, which applications from the suite are in use?
10) Who is responsible for your intranet’s procurement within the organisation?
11) Do you use Microsoft’s Active Directory to manage your people data? If so, is your Active Directory (AD) managed on-premise or in the cloud?
12) Do you use any other Software as a Service (SaaS) applications? (e.g. Atlassian/Jira, Slack, Trello, Xero)

If possible, please could you present the information via a Microsoft Word or Excel document, sent to me via email. I understand that under the act, I should be entitled to a response within 20 days and therefore I would appreciate if you could confirm receipt of my request.

Yours faithfully,

Louis James

SM-Defra-Helpline, Defra (MCU), Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal

Thank you for your email to the Department for Environment, Food  & Rural
Affairs. We have a target of replying to emails within 20 working days
where a response is required, and 20 working days where a case is handled
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information
Regulations 2004.

 

If you need a reply before then, please call the Defra Helpline on 03459
33 55 77, or visit
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisati....

 

We receive thousands of identical emails each month from organised
campaigns. Ministers and officials are made aware of these campaigns, but
unfortunately we cannot reply to each email individually.

 

Best wishes,

Ministerial Contact Unit

 

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) This email and
any attachments is intended for the named recipient only. If you have
received it in error you have no authority to use, disclose, store or copy
any of its contents and you should destroy it and inform the sender.
Whilst this email and associated attachments will have been checked for
known viruses whilst within Defra systems we can accept no responsibility
once it has left our systems. Communications on Defra's computer systems
may be monitored and/or recorded to secure the effective operation of the
system and for other lawful purposes.

SM-Defra-Helpline, Defra (MCU), Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal

Thank you for your email. We have a target of replying to all emails
within 15 working days. If you need a reply before then, please call the
Defra Helpline on 03459 33 55 77, or visit
[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/organisati....
We receive thousands of identical campaign emails a month. These are read
and the volumes received are recorded, but they do not receive individual
replies.
Best wishes,
Customer Contact Unit
 
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) This email and
any attachments is intended for the named recipient only. If you have
received it in error you have no authority to use, disclose, store or copy
any of its contents and you should destroy it and inform the sender.
Whilst this email and associated attachments will have been checked for
known viruses whilst within Defra systems we can accept no responsibility
once it has left our systems. Communications on Defra's computer systems
may be monitored and/or recorded to secure the effective operation of the
system and for other lawful purposes.

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no-reply@defra.ecase.co.uk on behalf of informationrequests@defra.gov.uk, Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal

Dear Louis James,

Thank you for your email of 29 October, requesting information on Plant
varieties and Seeds Tribunal - Intranet Queries.

We aim to answer your request no later than 26th November, which is 20
working days from the date we received it. If we are unable to meet this
deadline we will contact you to explain the reason.

If you have any queries about this letter please contact us.

Yours sincerely

Marie Davies

Information Rights Team

[email address]

no-reply@defra.ecase.co.uk on behalf of informationrequests@defra.gov.uk, Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal

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Dear Louis James,

Please find attached the response to your request of 29th October for
information on Plant varieties and Seeds Tribunal - Intranet Queries.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Team

[email address]