Public Sector Financial Efficiency
Dear NHS Merton Clinical Commissioning Group,
I am researching the financial efficiency of the public sector. Please provide the following information under the FOI act.
1) Does the organisation use an external provider for VAT advisory services? If so please state the name of the organisation used? (E.g. Ernst Young, Berthold Bauer, Liaison, CRS, KPMG etc.)?
2) Please state the contract start and end date.
3) Please confirm the total value of VAT recovered by the provider in 2015/16
a. Please state the total value of under-claims recovered
b. Please state the total value of over-claims recovered
4) Please state the total amount spent by the organisation for these services in 2015/16
5) Did the organisation use an external provider to re-review VAT recovered in the last financial year (15/16)?
a. If so please state the name of the company used.
6) Please state the total amount of additional VAT recovered by the provider in 2015/16
7) Please state the total amount spent by the organisation for these services
8) Please state the total number of Accounts Payable invoices processed by the organisation in the last financial year (15/16)
9) Please state the total value of Accounts Payable invoices in the last financial year (15/16)
10) In the last five years, please state the name(s) of all external organisation(s) used to review AP and identify and recover erroneous payments, and the period(s) reviewed by each.
11) Please state the total value of moneys recovered by each provider in the period(s) reviewed.
12) Please state the total amount paid to any external parties for this review work.
Thank you for your time.
Yours faithfully,
Mr J Taylor
Dear Mr Taylor
I am writing to formally acknowledge your request for information
regarding ‘Public Sector Financial Efficiency’ which will be processed
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I can confirm your request was
received on 24 June 2016 by NHS South East Commissioning Support Unit
(South East CSU) on behalf of the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
listed below. The reference for your request is shown alongside.
NHS Merton CCG
FOI.16.MERT073
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Dear Mr Taylor
Please find attached the response to your recent Freedom of Information
request on behalf of NHS Merton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG),
reference FOI.16.MERT073.
Kind regards
Danielle Sohn Djengue
Associate - Freedom of Information
South East CSU
E: [1][email address]
[2]cid:image001.png@01D0445C.5E881140 1 Lower Marsh, Waterloo,
London, SE1 7NT
[3]www.southeastcsu.nhs.uk
@southeast_CSU
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