Transactions over £25,000 from January 2024 in machine readable format
Dear Sir or Madam,
Thank you for publishing your data on expenditure over £25,000 here: https://www.rjah.nhs.uk/about-us/publica...
However, I notice that your spend data is in pdf format, which is not machine readable and so cannot be used for data analysis. Under 2.26 of Guidance for publishing spend (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...) publishers are to publish in a CSV file format rather than a PDF format.
Therefore, I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for all transactions over £25,000 from January 2024. Please provide the spend data in the CSV format which is machine readable. 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 be interested in the guidance on producing spending data, which specifies that the data must be published in a machine readable format: 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....
Please note that it is permissible to request data in a specified format under the terms of the FOI Act: https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/court-....
For the avoidance of doubt, I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act. I await your response within 20 working days. Please be aware that I will continue to submit FOI requests to you on a monthly basis until all your spending data is published in a machine-readable format.
Yours Faithfully,
Zsofia Molnar
Spend Network
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt
Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Oswestry
Shropshire
SY10 7AG
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Reference FOI/541
Dear Requestor
Re: Freedom of Information – Request for Information
Your request for information has been received.
It is our aim to provide our response within twenty working days of
receiving your request. Should there be any difficulty or delay in
meeting this aim you will be informed in writing of the reasons and
expected outcome. You will also be informed if there will be any
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Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me further.
Yours sincerely
FOI Lead
Governance Department
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt
Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Oswestry
Shropshire
SY10 7AG
[2][The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust request email]
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Dear FOI Lead,
Could you give us any update on the FOI request, please? Thank you very much in advance!
Yours sincerely,
Zsofia Molnar
Spend Network
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt
Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Oswestry
Shropshire
SY10 7AG
Dear Spend Network
We acknowledge receipt of your email to The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt
Orthopedic Hospital NHS FT.
We will pass your email on to the team handling your case FOI/541 who will
be in touch in due course.
Hi
The response was sent to you on 25th March.
Many thanks
Dear FOI Lead,
Could you give us any update on the FOI request, please? Thank you very
much in advance!
Yours sincerely,
Zsofia Molnar
Spend Network
Dear Dear FOI Lead,
I am terribly sorry but I could not find any message on the 25th March (the acknowledgement e-mail arrived on the 21st March). Would you be so kind to re-send that e-mail, please?
Thank you very much in advance!
Yours sincerely,
Zsofia Molnar
Spend Network
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt
Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Oswestry
Shropshire
SY10 7AG
Dear Zsofia
Re: Freedom of Information – Request for Information
Thank you for your recent request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000. Please find the answer to your question below.
Can you send over the CSV files for trans over £25k for Jan 2024 - the
requestor has asked for CSV as they cannot use the PDF files on the
website as it is not machine readable - attached
I trust that this deals with your enquiry to your satisfaction, but if you
feel that the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS
Foundation Trust has misunderstood or not responded appropriately to your
request, you have two courses of action:
• You can clarify the terms of your original request to allow this to be
looked at again (if you expand your request this will be dealt with as
a new request)
• All applicants have the right of appeal. An appeal should be focused
on the original request and should identify how the Trust’s response
failed to answer your Information Request. Appeals must be made in
writing to the FOI Lead at the address below.
After the Trust’s internal appeals procedure has been exhausted, a further
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Many thanks
FOI Team
Governance Department
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt
Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Oswestry
Shropshire
SY10 7AG
[2][The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust request email]
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Dear Sir or Madam,
On 18th March 2024, I sent you a FOI request for your expenditure over £25,000 from January 2024 to present in machine readable format. It was allocated the reference FOI/541.
On 20th April, you forwarded our request to the replated department but they never got back to us .
However, the guidance for publishing spend data for government departments states:
2.10 Spend is to be published one month in arrears, ie by the last working day of the month following the month to which the data relates. If the data is available before the end of the month, it should be published as soon as the department has cleared it for release. This data is to be published in individual monthly files.
2.11 You should not hold up the publication of your data where you have unresolved individual queries. You should publish the cleared data within the publication timescales, and amend the data at a later date if necessary. See section 2.5 for further detail on applying redactions to the data.
Please see here for more details: 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....
This means that the data requested 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,
Zsofia Molnar
Spend Network
Hi
The response was sent to [1][FOI #1105090 email] on 22nd April. Please
see below.
Many thanks
Ali Clapton
Information Governance Manager
Clinical Governance Department – Location 41
The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Hi
If you need me to re-send the file that was sent on 25^th March and 22^nd
April, please let me know.
Many thanks
Ali Clapton
Information Governance Manager
Clinical Governance Department – Location 41
The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Email:
[1][email address]
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From: foi (THE ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL NHS
FOUNDATION TRUST)
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 9:43 AM
To: Spend Network <[FOI #1105090 email]>
Subject: RE: Internal review of Freedom of Information request -
Transactions over £25,000 from January 2024 in machine readable format
Hi
The response was sent to [2][FOI #1105090 email] on 22nd April. Please
see below.
Many thanks
Ali Clapton
Information Governance Manager
Clinical Governance Department – Location 41
The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Email:
[3][email address]
*advanced notice of leave –
Working Hours : Mon 8:00 – 16:30| Tues 8:00 – 16:30| Wed 8:00 – 14:30|
Thurs 8:00 – 14:30| Fri 8:00- 14:30
This e-mail communication and any attachments are confidential and
privileged and intended only for the use of the individual to which it is
addressed. It may contain confidential information belonging to the sender
which is protected by the physician/patient privilege. If you are not the
intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying,
distribution or taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this
information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have
received this communication in error, please notify this office by
telephone to arrange for the return of the document. Thank you for your
co-operation.
Hi
The response was sent to you on 22nd April. See below snapshot from our
portal.
It was first sent on 25^th March.
If you need me to re-send please let me know.
Many thanks
Ali Clapton
Information Governance Manager
Clinical Governance Department – Location 41
The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Email:
*advanced notice of leave –
Working Hours : Mon 8:00 – 16:30| Tues 8:00 – 16:30| Wed 8:00 – 14:30|
Thurs 8:00 – 14:30| Fri 8:00- 14:30
This e-mail communication and any attachments are confidential and
privileged and intended only for the use of the individual to which it is
addressed. It may contain confidential information belonging to the sender
which is protected by the physician/patient privilege. If you are not the
intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying,
distribution or taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this
information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have
received this communication in error, please notify this office by
telephone to arrange for the return of the document. Thank you for your
co-operation.
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