Our Ref: FOI/2023.323/JM
Freedom of Information Team
Date: 8 February 2023
The Oast
Unit D, Hermitage Court
Hermitage Lane
Mr J Johnson
Barming
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Maidstone
ME16 9NT
Phone: 01622 211900
Dear Mr Johnson
Email: xxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx
Web: www.kentcht.nhs.uk
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
Thank you for your email received 25 January 2023 requesting information regarding temporary
and permanent recruitment.
Please find detailed below a summary of your request, together with our response.
Summary of your original request:
Covering the last 12 months, or the most recent 12 month period recorded:
1. Has the Trust used agencies to recruit temporary non-medical non-clinical staff? - Yes
1a. If so please confirm the total agency spend on non-medical non clinical temporary
staff?
£184,406.32
1b. Please provide a breakdown of your answer to question 1a, splitting the spend by job
title/specialism
Band 2 A&C - £10,997.01
Band 3 A&C - £11,749.85
Band 3 A&C IL - £583.90
Band 9 A&C - £159,304.34
Band 2 FAC OP - £3,771.22
2. Has the Trust used agencies to recruit permanent non-medical non-clinical staff? Yes
2a. If so please confirm the total agency spend on non-medical non clinical permanent
staff?
2b. Please provide a breakdown of your answer to question 2a, splitting the spend by job
title/specialism
Unfortunately we are not able to provide information for question 2 parts a and b as we do not
keep a record of candidates recruited permanently via agencies; therefore we are not able to
provide the spend or job titles as requested.
3. The contact name of the person responsible for dealing with non-medical non clinical
permanent recruitment?
4. The contact name of the person responsible for dealing with non-medical non clinical
temporary recruitment?
It is Trust policy to not release names and contact details of staff below Executive Director Level
as this constitutes personal information which is exempt under Section 40(2) in conjunction with
Section 40(3A)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which relates to ‘Personal Information’.
An excerpt of the relevant Freedom of Information legislation can be found below:
Section 40 – Personal information
(2) Any information to which a request for information relates is also exempt information if—
(a) it constitutes personal data which does not fall within subsection (1), and
(b) either the first, second or third condition below is satisfied.
(3a) The first condition is that the disclosure of the information to a member of the public
otherwise than under this Act
(a)
would contravene any of the data protection principles, or
(b)
would do so if the exemptions in section 24(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018 (manual
unstructured data held by public authorities) were disregarded.
We can confirm that the Executive Director with overall responsibility for permanent and
temporary recruitment is Victoria Robinson-Collins - Director of People and Organisational
Development.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal
review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of
the response to your original letter and should be addressed to:
xxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.
Please remember to quote the reference number in any future communications.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly
to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted
at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, and Cheshire,
SK9 5AF or vi
a https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Act Team
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