ODS Ltd and Gul-e EV Charging
Dear Oxford City Council,
I am concerned about Oxford Direct Services involvement in the Gul-e, EV charging venture.
The Gul-e EV charging system looks like rubbish and I am afraid that it will end up being nothing more than a virtue signalling green credentials exercise and a financial flop and will end up costing the taxpayer money.
Please provide copies of all documents and email communications you might hold for correspondence between the Council and ODS regarding the gul-e project.
Has the Council provided any funding for the gul-e project and if so how much and when were the funds made available.
Yours faithfully,
Martin Henson
Dear Martin Henson
Freedom of Information Request, Oxford City Council - Reference:
FOI2024/00348
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Dear Martin Henson
Please find attached a response to your request for information received
on 22 March.
Yours sincerely
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Dear Oxford City Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Oxford City Council's handling of my FOI request 'ODS Ltd and Gul-e EV Charging'.
Please provide an explanation as to why you need to perform a "manual trawl" of 1000s of emails and cannot perform an automated trawl for the search string "gul-e" ? Please perform such a search and identify the persons at OCC who are both the most popular sender and recipient of such identified emails and then provide copies of the emails.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...
Yours faithfully,
Martin Henson
Dear Mr Henson
Please find attached a response to your request for information received
on 22 April.
Yours sincerely
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Dear Oxford City Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Oxford City Council's handling of my FOI request 'ODS Ltd and Gul-e EV Charging'.
You say that the Gul-e project is funded from external grants. Do these grants cover the salaries paid to those directly involved with the project or are they being picked up by the taxpayer?
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...
Yours faithfully,
Martin Henson
Dear Martin Henson
Freedom of Information Request, Oxford City Council - Reference:
FOI2024/00586
Thank you for your email. Your request was received on 24 May 2024 and you
will be sent a response by 24th June in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000/ Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR),
subject to the information not being exempt or containing reference to a
third party.
Yours sincerely
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Dear Martin Henson
Please find below a response to your request for information received on
24 May.
Each of the GULe projects were funded by Innovate UK and this included the
council officer resource allocated to the project.
The team filled in timesheets throughout the projects.
Yours sincerely
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Dear Oxford City Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Oxford City Council's handling of my FOI request 'ODS Ltd and Gul-e EV Charging'.
You have provided no details concerning the funding of the ODS employees involved in the project. Please provide details.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...
Yours faithfully,
Martin Henson
Dear Martin Henson,
We would not hold that data outside of the projects we worked on with ODS which we have already given information about.
For a fuller set of figures, the request would need to go to ODS as they hold the data on their employees.
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Dear Oxford City Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Oxford City Council's handling of my FOI request 'ODS Ltd and Gul-e EV Charging'.
I do not believe that you do not hold information concerning funding of ODS employees.
Please provide copies of all documents and communications concerning funding of the the Gule EV charging project between the Council and Innovate UK .
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...
Yours faithfully,
Martin Henson
Dear Martin Henson
Please find attached a response to your request for information received
on 22 June 2024.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
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Dear Oxford City Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Oxford City Council's handling of my FOI request 'ODS Ltd and Gul-e EV Charging'.
The documents you have provided have no annotation of the exemptions you have applied. Some of the text that has been redacted does not look as though it is eligible for S12 or S40 exemptions.
Please annotate the supplied documents with the exemptions that you have applied to redact the text.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...
Yours faithfully,
Martin Henson
Dear Martin Henson
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Please find attached a response to your request for information received
on 22 June 2024.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
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Dear Martin Henson
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Please find attached a response to your request for information received
on 22 June 2024.
Yours sincerely
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Dear Martin Henson
in response to your follow up request received on 22 July 2024, please
find attached documents with exceptions summarised at the end of each
document. Please note the summaries may not be in page order. Due to file
size we are sending these documents to you in 2 emails, this is the first
email.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
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Dear Martin Henson
Please find attached a response to your request for information, email 2
of 2.
Yours sincerely
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Dear Oxford City Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Oxford City Council's handling of my FOI request 'ODS Ltd and Gul-e EV Charging'.
You have not addressed the IR. I requested information concerning the funding of the employees involved in the project. For clarification I was not asking for specific details concerning individual salaries, but source of funding.
Are salaries funded by grants or by the council tax payer? If you fail to a provide a response, the matter will be referred to the ICO.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...
Yours faithfully,
Martin Henson
Dear Martin Henson
Please find below a response to your request for information received on
31 July.
The GULe projects were both funded by Innovate UK grants, this grant
covered the cost of the various staff working on the project across Oxford
City Council, ODS and Oxfordshire City Council. this information is
available here - [1]Innovate UK funded projects since 2004 - UKRI
Project 1 - IUK grant awarded to ODS was £99653 and project came in under
budget at £94,212
Project 2 - IUK grant awarded to ODS was £200,143 and project came in
under budget at £164,151.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
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