Transactions over £25,000 from October 2017

The request was successful.

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for publishing your spend data here: http://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk/about-u... . However, I notice that you haven't published any spending data since September 2017.

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £25,000 from October 2017 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.

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,

Spend Network

Can you please provide me with a name to log the request against.

Thank you for your request for information from Airedale NHS Foundation Trust which was received on 29/01/2019. Your request has been given the Reference Number ANHST REF 4010.

We will now proceed to process the request. The deadline date for issuing you with a full response is 26/02/2019. We will endeavour to respond to you in advance of this date and we will contact you if we envisage delays or if we need more information from you.

Please note that under the Freedom of Information Act, some information can be subject to exemptions, which means that the Trust does not have to provide the information requested. Some exemptions are “absolute” such as personal information and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption, outweighs that of providing the information.

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Please contact me, quoting the Reference Number above, with any questions you might have about your request.

With kind regards

Kevin Denham
Information Governance Manager
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Steeton, KEIGHLEY, BD20 6TD
Location: IT Business Centre | Zone C | Department 48
FOI: 01535 294842
Sent on behalf of Kevin Denham by Lucy Short.

http://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk / Follow us on Twitter @AiredaleNHSFT

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Dear FOI,

My name is George Brown.

Yours sincerely,

George Brown

Spend Network

Dear Airedale NHS Foundation Trust,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Transactions over £25,000 from October 2017'.

On 29 January 2019, I sent you a FOI request for your expenditure over £25,000 from September 2017 to present. It was allocated the reference 4010.

I have had no response beyond a request for clarification.

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.

I await your response within 20 working days.

Yours Faithfully,

George Brown

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Dear Mr Brown,

Please accept our sincere apologies for the late response. Further to your application to access information under the Freedom of Information Act (ANHST REF. 4010) please find our response attached.

We trust you find our response helpful. If you feel we are not complying with our publication scheme, you feel your request has not been properly handled, or you are dissatisfied, you can write within 40 working days to Brendan Brown, Chief Executive at the address below to request a review. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner under section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 if you are dissatisfied with the outcome of that review.

Unless identified as another party's copyright, you may use and re-use the information we have provided (not including logos or photographs), free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence which can be viewed via the link below.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/o...

We are continually working to improve our Freedom of Information service and we will shortly send you a brief, anonymous, on line feedback form. We would be very grateful if you could take a few moments to complete and submit this.

Yours sincerely

Kevin Denham
Information Governance Manager
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust | Skipton Road | Steeton | Keighley | BD20 6TD | Location: IT Business Centre | Zone C | Department 48
FOI: 01535 294842
Sent on behalf of Kevin Denham by Lucy Short.

http://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk / Follow us on Twitter @AiredaleNHSFT

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for publishing your spend data here: http://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk/about-u... . However, I notice that you haven't published any spending data since September 2017.

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £25,000 from October 2017 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.

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,

Spend Network

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

Yours sincerely,

Spend Network