Intranet queries
Dear Traffic Commissioners,
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,
Miller Yuraszek
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Dear Miller Yuraszek,
We refer to your email dated 3 December 2019 sent to [1][Traffic Commissioners request email]
which has been dealt with by the Information Access team for the Traffic
Commissioners.
We have dealt with your request in line with the provisions of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000.
Your email sent 3 December 2019 reads:-
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.
Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires any public
authority to whom a request is made, to offer advice and assistance to the
applicant. Therefore, to satisfy this requirement the Traffic
Commissioners offer the following advice and assistance.
There are eight Traffic Commissioners within Great Britain and they are
appointed to geographic regions defined as East of England, London and
South East of England, North East of England, North West of England, West
of England, West Midlands, Wales and Scotland.
The Traffic Commissioners are independent appointees of the Secretary of
State and are responsible for the application and issue of operator
licences. They are the industry regulators for GB, in respect of the
holders of goods and passenger vehicle operator licences.
We must also advise you that Traffic Commissioners are a named public
authority within Schedule 1 Part VI of the Freedom of Information Act
2000. In line with the provisions of Section 7 of the Act, this limits the
information held by Traffic Commissioners that is in scope of the
disclosure provisions contained at Section 1(1) (a) of the Act. The
disclosure provisions of the Act apply to Traffic Commissioners only in
respect of information held by them otherwise than as a tribunal.
A search of the Traffic Commissioners records has been undertaken and we
can confirm that the Traffic Commissioners do not hold information
relevant to your request.
Although your email was sent to the Traffic Commissioners of Great
Britain, much of your request seems to come under the remit of the Driver
and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) who support the Traffic Commissioners’
statutory functions involving the regulation of transport operators within
Great Britain.
If you are not satisfied with the way in which we have handled your
request, or with the reason given for refusing to provide the information,
you have the right to request a review. Your request for a review must be
made within two calendar months from the date of this letter.
To request a review, please contact the Traffic Commissioners’ Corporate
Office at the following address, giving the reasons for your
dissatisfaction:
Traffic Commissioners’ Corporate Office
Eastbrook
Shaftesbury Road
Cambridge
CB2 8BF
or by email at: [2][email address]
If you are not content with the outcome of the review, you may lodge an
appeal with the Information Commissioner ([3]www.ico.gov.uk).
The Information Commissioner can consider complaints about any aspect of
the way in which requests for information have been handled. Please note
that the Information Commissioner is unlikely to consider your complaint
if you have not requested a review first. You can write to the Information
Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
or via the Information Commissioner’s website at [4]www.ico.gov.uk
Please contact us if you have any queries regarding this letter.
Yours sincerely
Vicki Harsant | Information Access Manager
Traffic Commissioners of Great Britain
Jubilee House | Croydon Street | Bristol | BS5 0GB
Tel: 0117 9008522 M: 07814 679680
[5][email address]
Friday is my non-working day.
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