Transactions over £25,000 from February 2019

The request was successful.

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for publishing your spend data here:https://www.dudley.gov.uk/council-commun.... However, I notice that you haven't published any spending data since January 2019.

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for all transactions over £500 from February 2019 to at most a quarter in arrears from the date at which you publish in response to this request.

Please provide the data in a machine readable format (preferably csv). As a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of each transaction. Please also provide details on the procurement category of each transaction if you have it.

Your team may also be interested in the guidance on producing spending data:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio....

For the avoidance of doubt, I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act. I await your response within 20 working days.

Yours Faithfully,

Dora Homoki

Spend Network

Dudley Triggers, Dudley Council

Dear Dora Homoki,

Information Access Request - Information Request DMBCIR:20490
Description : Transactions over £25,000 from February 2019

I acknowledge your request for information received on 2019-05-09
15:24:00.

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Information Governance, Dudley Council

Dear Dora Homoki,
 
Freedom Of Information Act 2000 - Information Request 20490
 
Your request for information has now been considered and I write to inform
you that the information you have requested is exempt from disclosure
under the provisions of the Act.
 
Your Request:
 
I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for all
transactions over £500 from February 2019 to at most a quarter in arrears
from the date at which you publish in response to this request.
 
Please provide the data in a machine readable format (preferably csv). As
a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of
each transaction. Please also provide details on the procurement category
of each transaction if you have it.
 
Our Response:
 
The exemption applied is Section 22 – Future Publication.
 
This exemption applies because the information can be found at the
attached link:
[1]https://www.dudley.gov.uk/council-commun...
and will be updated to include the month of May by 30^th June 2019.
 
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 this letter acts as
a Refusal Notice.
 
I apologise that your request will not be met but if you have any further
information needs in the future then please contact me.
 
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a comment or complaint, or request a review of
the decision, you should write to the Freedom of Information Officer at
Dudley MBC, The Council House, Dudley, West Midlands, DY1 1HF, telephone
0300 555 2345, e‑mail [2][Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council request email]. 
 
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
 
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.  Generally, the
ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints
procedure provided by Dudley MBC.
 
The Information Commissioner may be contacted at:
 
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow 
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF
Telephone:   01625 545 700
[3]www.ico.org.uk
 
 
Yours sincerely,
Mandy Fennell
Information Governance Monitoring Officer
Digital and ICT Services
Chief Executives
' (01384) 814696
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[5]www.dudley.gov.uk

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Dear Dudley Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

Dear Sir or Madam,

On 9 May 2019, I sent you a FOI request for your expenditure over £500 from February 2019 to present. It was allocated the reference DMBCIR:20490.

On 7 June 2019, you refused my request citing Section 22 of the FOI Act as grounds for an exemption.

However, the local government transparency code states:
Part 2.1: Information to be published quarterly
26. Data covered by this section includes expenditure exceeding £500 (see paragraphs 28 and 29) Government Procurement Card transactions (paragraph 30), and procurement information (see paragraphs 31 and 32).
27. The data and information referred to in this Part (2.1) must be:
first published within a period of three months from the date on which the local authority last published that data under the Local Government Transparency Code 201413 and not later than one month after the quarter to which the data and information is applicable
published quarterly thereafter and on each occasion not later than one month after the quarter to which the data and information is applicable.

Please see here for more details: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sy....

This means that the data should already be published. For this reason, I would like to request an Internal Review of the initial response to my Freedom of Information request.

Please also take note of this decision notice from the ICO on the use of Section 22 of the FOI Act in these circumstances: https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-tak...

I await your response within 20 working days.

Yours Faithfully,

Dora Homoki

Spend Network

Sharron Andrews, Dudley Council

Dora Homoki
 
 
 
Dear Dora Homoki,
 
Freedom Of Information Act 2000 - Review Request 20490
 
Further to your request for information received on 09/05/2019 and your
request for a review received on 10/06/2019, I have completed a review of
our response and my findings are detailed below.
 
Your request 
 
I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for all
transactions over £500 from February 2019 to at most a quarter in arrears
from the date at which you publish in response to this request.
 
You have requested that we review our decision.
 
In our original response dated 07/06/2019 we applied the S22 exemption-
Information intended for future publication. This exemption applies where
the information requested is held by the local authority with a view to
its publication at a future date.
 
We advised in our response that this information would be published by the
end of June 2019.
 
There has been a slight delay in this information being published,
however, I can confirm that the information you have requested has now
been published and is available via this link
[1]https://www.dudley.gov.uk/council-commun...
 
The information for the month of May 2019 will be published at the end of
June 2019.
 
Given that this information has now been published, I will be maintaining
the S22 exemption. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience this
may have caused.
 
If you have any queries or concerns then please contact me.
 
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
 
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the
ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints
procedure provided by Dudley MBC.
 
The Information Commissioner may be contacted at:
 
Information Commissioner's Office
 
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow 
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF
Telephone:   01625 545 700
[2]www.ico.org.uk
 
 
Yours sincerely,
 
 
 
Sharron Andrews
Senior Information Governance Officer
 
 
 
 
 
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Spend Network

Dear Sharron Andrews,

Thank you for the provided information, I appreciate the cooperation.

Yours sincerely,

Spend Network

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