Transactions over £25,000 from February 2020

This request has been withdrawn by the person who made it. There may be an explanation in the correspondence below.

Dear Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust,

Thank you for publishing your spend data here: https://www.ambulance.wales.nhs.uk/en/19. However, I notice that you haven't published any spending data since January 2020.

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £25,000 from February 2020 to at most a month 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.

We understand that due to the COVID-19 pandemic it may not have been a priority to publish your spending data. However, it is still important to us to send out these letters and we would be extremely grateful if you could update this information after this difficult period passed. We believe that data is still major, even during these crucial times and we wish nothing but the best for everyone to recover from this situation.

Your team may also be interested in the guidance on producing spending data:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio.... This letter makes it clear that this guidance applies to the NHS: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sy....

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,

Anna Pongracz

Spend Network

FOI AMB (Welsh Ambulance Service - Corporate Services), Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust

The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust is extremely busy at this time
dealing with the national pandemic emergency. As a consequence many of our
administrative and corporate staff have been redeployed on to front line
services.

 

Consequently, the Trust would appreciate your support in these challenging
times and respectfully ask that Freedom of Information requests are
delayed or withdrawn until such a time that services have returned to
normal. Therefore, the Trust will consider your request for information to
be withdrawn. Please resubmit your request in due course.

 

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