Office of the Pubs Code Adjudicator
Lower Ground
Victoria Square House
Victoria Square
Birmingham
B2 4AJ
Email:
xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
19 November 2019
Dear Mr Yuraszek,
Thank you for your email, received on 07 November 2019, in which you requested
information from the office of the Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (the Act).
The Act entitles you to:
• know whether the information you have requested is held by the PCA; and
• be provided with that information, subject to any exemptions in the Act which may
apply.
You have requested 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)
I can confirm that the office of the PCA does hold some information relevant to your request.
Annexed to this letter is a table setting out the PCA’s responses to your requests.
Please note that the PCA does not employ any staff directly. I have interpreted your request
in relation to “employees” to mean members of staff seconded to the PCA and those
engaged through employment agencies and consultancies to the PCA.
Pubs Code enquiries to 0800 528 8080 or xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Website: www.gov.uk/pca
The PCA is an arm’s length body of the Department for Business Energy and Industrial
Strategy (BEIS). This means that the PCA delivers a public service but is not a ministerial
government department. All IT equipment, maintenance and related services, including
access to an intranet are provided to the PCA by BEIS.
If you do not believe that the office of the PCA has provided an appropriate response to your
request, as set out above, you are entitled to ask for an internal review. Internal review
requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to
your original request and should be made in writing, quoting the above reference, to
xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx or:
PCA
Lower Ground
Victoria Square House
Victoria Square
Birmingham
B2 4AJ
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 can
be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely,
Tarvez Hussain
Office of the Pubs Code Adjudicator
Pubs Code enquiries to 0800 528 8080 or xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Website: www.gov.uk/pca
Annex
No Question
Response
1
How many employees are working for your
15 people work in the PCA office
organisation, including full-time, part-time, and
contracted staff?
2
What is your annual intranet budget?
Information not held. The PCA has access
to an intranet provided by BEIS.
3
What is your current intranet solution? (e.g.
The BEIS intranet is based on SharePoint.
Invotra, Sharepoint, Kahootz, Umbraco)
4
How long have you been using this solution,
The PCA has had access to the BEIS
and when does your contract expire?
intranet since July 2016. The PCA does
not hold a contract for the use of the BEIS
intranet.
5
Do you work with an external partner to
Information not held
supply your intranet? If not, do you develop
your intranet internally?
6
Which team/individual is responsible for
Information not held
managing your intranet internally?
7
Which other organisations have access to
Please refer to the answer to Q2; PCA
your intranet?
does not have its own intranet.
8
Do you share IT services with other
Information not held
organisations?
9
Are you using the Office 365 suite? If so,
Core applications such as Outlook, Word,
which applications from the suite are in use?
Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
10
Who is responsible for your intranet’s
Please refer to the answer to Q2; PCA
procurement within the organisation?
does not have its own intranet.
11
Do you use Microsoft’s Active Directory to
Information not held
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
The PCA uses Xero and Legis
(SaaS) applications? (e.g. Atlassian/Jira,
Slack, Trello, Xero)
Pubs Code enquiries to 0800 528 8080 or xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Website: www.gov.uk/pca
