Transactions over £25,000 from March 2019

The request was refused by Parole Board for England and Wales.

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for publishing your spend data here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collection.... However, I notice that you haven't published any spending data since February 2019.

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £25,000 from March 2019 to 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.

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

Info, Parole Board for England and Wales

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Dear Parole Board for England and Wales,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
Dear Sir or Madam,

On 17 July 2019, I sent you an FOI request for your expenditure over £25,000 from March 2019 to present.

I've received no response from you, beyond and acknowledgement.

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 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

Nazreen Khan, Parole Board for England and Wales

Good Afternoon,

Thank you for your email.

Please accept my apologies, however this is the first sight of this request.

Your request for an internal review will be reviewed independently.

Please be assured that we are looking into the matter urgently. Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Nazreen Khan
Compliance and Assurance Officer
Performance Team
Transformation Hub
The Parole Board for England and Wales
3rd Floor, 10 South Colonnade, London E14 4PU
Telephone: 0203 965 4288
General Enquiries: 0203 880 0885
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/paro...
@parole_board

For information about what we do with personal data, see our privacy notice

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Gary Hopper, Parole Board for England and Wales

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Please find attached our response to your request for an internal review
of an FOI request made on 17 July 2019

 

Gary

 

 

Gary Hopper

Head of Governance
The Parole Board for England and Wales

3^rd Floor, 10 South Colonnade, London E14 4PU
Telephone: 020 3965 3117

General Enquiries: 020 3880 0885

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