Payments under section 92 Local Government Act 2000

Northamptonshire County Council did not have the information requested.

Dear Northamptonshire County Council ,In each of the past 5 years, how many payments have you made under this provision?

What is the largest single amount paid.

If the answer to the first question is NO, is this because there is no maladministration in your County or is there some policy reason?

Yours faithfully,

Victor Allen

Freedom of Information,

Dear Mr Allen,

Thank you for your email.

I have made enquiries with our service area and will get back to you as soon as I hear from them.

Kind regards

Sarah Jobling
Senior Administrator
Freedom of Information/Data Protection Team
Business Intelligence and Performance Improvement
Northamptonshire County Council

Tel: 01604 368360
[email address]
www.northamptonshire.gov.uk

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Freedom of Information,

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Dear Mr Allen,

 

I write further to my email below.

 

I have been advised by our service area that data relating to your request
is not currently recorded in a centrally reportable format.

 

The Complaints Service only holds information in relation to payments that
have been made or offered by them at a local level, to acknowledge
maladministration in the complaints process.

 

They also hold information in relation to payments that have been
made/offered in recommendation by the Local Government Ombudsman to settle
a complaint.

 

If a payment has been offered by a service area in acknowledgement of a
complaint/failure in their practice/procedures, this will be held by the
local budget holder.

 

To obtain the information requested, each budget holder across council
services would need to review their accounts for the last five financial
years to identify where a payment is attributed to a complaint. 

 

Unfortunately, I have estimated that the time it will take to undertake
the necessary search, retrieval and preparation work to complete this
exercise will exceed the fee limit as set out in the Appropriate Limit and
Fees Regulations.  Therefore, the Council is not obliged to provide a
response and I will not be processing your request further.  For
information purposes, the fee limit set down by the Regulations is £450.00
and in our case this equates to a maximum of 18 hours’ of search and
retrieval time.

 

In accordance with Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this
letter acts as a refusal to release the information you have requested.

 

Section 12-Exemption where cost of compliance exceeds appropriate limit

 

(1)    Section 1 (1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a
request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of
complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.

 

Kind regards

 

Sarah Jobling

Senior Administrator

Freedom of Information/Data Protection Team

Business Intelligence and Performance Improvement

Northamptonshire County Council

 

Tel: 01604 368360

[email address]

[1]www.northamptonshire.gov.uk

 

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