Money Spent on Lift Maintenance

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Dear Nottingham City Council,

Please will you provide the following information under the Freedom of Information Act.

1) The annual budget for the lift maintenance team for each of the years prior to its disbanding in the City Council 2009 budget. Please provide these figures for years as far back as you have records and break them down into main categories of expenditure.

2) Please also provide details of the amounts paid in total to outside lift maintenance and repair contractors for each year. Please provide basic details and amounts of what was spent on what eg, repairs or routine maintenance. I don't want to know names of companies so there should be no issues of commercial sensitivity.

3) Following the disbanding of the lift maintenance team, please provide me with details of expenditure on such items to replace the work of the internal team. E.g, this may be other staff seconded or acting up, or the employment of a consultant to carry out equivalent work.

4) Again for the timeframe following the dismantling of the lift maintenance team, please will you provide me with comparable figures to those requested in #2 i.e. details of expenditure on lift repairs and maintenance by outside maintenance and repair contractors.

5) Please will you provide the numbers of accidents involving lifts for each year to date and going back as far as the records referred to in #s 1-4.

Thank you

Andy Platt

Yours faithfully,

Andy Platt

Dear Nottingham City Council,

Sorry, in addition to my main request can I also request a copy of any decision to employ any consultants to undertake any work previously carried out by the lift maintenance team, or advice as to where to find it if it is already publicly available?

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Andy Platt

Information Governance, Nottingham City Council

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your request for information. As the information you requested is neither environmental nor personal it will be processed in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

A response will be sent to you as soon as possible and in any case within the statutory deadline which is 20 working days starting the working day after this authority received your request.

If you should have any questions please contact this office on the above number quoting your personal case reference which is IGO/10-7298.

Regards,

Glenn E. Estes
Information Governance Case Administrator

Information Governance Office
1st Floor
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Telephone: 0115 876 3855

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Dear Information Governance,

It appears that your response to my request is late. Please will you update me as to when I can expect to receive a reply?

Yours sincerely,

Andy Platt

Information Governance, Nottingham City Council

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your email. I am aware that the statutory deadline for responding to your request has now passed and I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for the delay. Unfortunately, the department which is responsible for providing the information to this department are suffering some internal delays themselves. We are making every effort to liaise with them to get you a full and complete response to your request. It is my sincere hope that this response will be with you by this time next week. In the meantime let me thank you for your patience on this issue.

Sincerely,

Glenn E. Estes
Information Governance Case Administrator

Information Governance
Nottingham City Council
1st Floor
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Telephone: 0115 876 3855

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Dear Information Governance,

Are you saying they cannot provide ANY of the information within the time limit? What about the decision to engage outside consultants? Sure that would only take a few minutes to trace. It should have been published anyway.

Yours sincerely,

Andy Platt

Dear Information Governance,

I seem to remember that you said you would have a response by now, is there any further progress?

In particular, have you considered my suggestion that if not all the information is available you could provide that which is easily obtainable?

Otherwise a cynic might wonder if somebody is trying to keep difficult information out of the public eye and we couldn't have that could we? After all, I'd be forced to request a formal review of the non-disclosure and that's more work for everyone.

Yours sincerely,

Andy Platt

Information Governance, Nottingham City Council

Dear Mr Platt,

Please accept my apologies again. I can't possibly comment on the workings of another part of the authority. I will continue to do my best to get you answers as soon as possible. I have up to this point preferred to give you all the information you asked for in one response but, will speak to my line manager about arranging to release the partial response you appear to be saying you would be happy to receive.

Sincerely,

Glenn E. Estes
Information Governance Case Administrator

Information Governance
Nottingham City Council
1st Floor
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Telephone: 0115 876 3855

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Dear Information Governance,

Can I just clarify that my suggestion of issuing a partial response is only meant as an interim measure which, along with clear indications of when the full response, would mean I would be prepared to delay requesting a review.

Yours sincerely,

Andy Platt

Information Governance, Nottingham City Council

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Dear Sir,

Please find attached the interim response I promised. As stated we are still awaiting further information from the department in question and will get it to you as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

Glenn E. Estes
Information Governance Case Administrator

Information Governance
Nottingham City Council
1st Floor
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Telephone: 0115 876 3855

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Dear Information Governance,

I realise that this is an interim response but wrt the claim that no consultants have been appointed, I have been reliably informed that Dunbar and Boardman have been hired. I suspect this will be verifiable elsewhere.

In addition you may remember the report in the Post about the lift accident at Victoria Flats back in May

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/M...

Yours sincerely,

Andy Platt

Dear Information Governance,

Can you please give me an update as to when I can expect to receive a full response on this?

Yours sincerely,

Andy Platt

Dear Information Governance,

Again, can you please provide me with details of when this request will be fully answered by close today, or I shall have to request a review.

Yours sincerely,

Andy Platt

Information Governance, Nottingham City Council

Dear Mr Platt,

I am unable to provide you with the detail you are requesting as we are still trying to obtain the information in question. We have already initiated an Internal Review on the matter and Ms Pearson is working on that case, which has been assigned case reference IGO/10-7483.

I can only emphasise my personal apologies for the delay.

Sincerely,

Glenn E. Estes
Information Governance Case Administrator

Information Governance
Nottingham City Council
1st Floor
Loxley House
Station Street
Nottingham
NG2 3NG

Telephone: 0115 876 3855

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Information Governance, Nottingham City Council

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Dear Mr Platt

Please find attached my response to your follow up requests for the
outstanding part of our reply regarding your enquiries on lift
maintenance.

Yours sincerely

Stephanie Pearson

Information Governance Manager

Nottingham City Council

Loxley House, Station Street,

Nottingham, NG2 3NG

Tel: 0044 115 87 63855

E-mail: [1][email address]

Web: [2]www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk

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Dear Information Governance,

Can I remind you that I did request a copy of the decision to employ any consultants and, despite the fact that you now confirm that Dunbar and Boardman HAVE been hired, contrary to your previous statement in your interim response, this has not been included. Please can you provide this urgently.

Also, please could you confirm the status of your response i.e. is it a response to an internal review request as implied by one of the previous emails or is it a first tier response?

Yours sincerely,

Andy Platt

Information Governance, Nottingham City Council

Dear Mr Platt

I cannot provide you with a copy of the decision to employ Dunbar and Boardman as no copy of any decision is held. Therefore and in accordance with section one of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 this information cannot be provided to you as it is not held by this Authority.

With regards your request surrounding the status of my response, I had believed this to be clear in my previous communication by way of the title of the letter, but I can confirm that I was responding as I had dealt with this matter as an internal review. In addition and for the sake of clarity I fully uphold the fact that we were out of time when we issued our initial reply and also that there was one part of a question that remained unanswered. Please accept my sincere apologies on these matters.

Yours sincerely

Stephanie Pearson
Information Governance Manager
Nottingham City Council
Loxley House, Station Street,
Nottingham, NG2 3NG
Tel: 0044 115 87 63855
E-mail: [email address]
Web: www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk

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