Transactions over £25,000 from Ocotober 2018

This request has been withdrawn by the person who made it.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

Dear Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust,

Thank you for publishing your spend data here: https://www.hdft.nhs.uk/about/trust/fina.... However, I notice that you haven't published any spending data since September 2018.

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £25,000 from October 2018 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.

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,

George Brown

Spend Network

Dear Harrogate and District 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 Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Transactions over £25,000 from Ocotober 2018'.

On 16 March 2019, I sent you a FOI request for your expenditure over £500 from October 2018 to present.

I have received no response from you.

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.

I await your response within 20 working days.

Yours Faithfully,

George Brown

Spend Network

Dear Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust,

Please ignore my previous request for an Internal Review.

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Transactions over £25,000 from Ocotober 2018'.

On 16 March 2019, I sent you a FOI request for your expenditure over £25,000 from October 2019 to present.

I have received no response from you.

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

Spend Network

FOI (RCD) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ENQUIRIES, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Mr Brown - I can confirm that the Trust has not received an FOI request from yourself this year. Please confirm if you would like the Trust to now process your request and we will respond within the statutory 20 working days

FOI Officer
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Trust Headquarters, 3rd Floor Strayside Wing, Harrogate District Hospital,
Lancaster Park Road, Harrogate, HG2 7SX
Tel: 01423 554423
  

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Dear FOI (RCD) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ENQUIRIES,

Thank you for your message. Please process my Internal Review request.

Yours sincerely,

Spend Network

FOI (RCD) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ENQUIRIES, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

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Freedom of Information Request – FOI203

 

Thank you for your recent request received under the Freedom of
Information Act to which I can provide the following response on behalf of
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust.

 

The Trust is exempting this information under Section 21 of the Freedom of
Information Act – information readily available by other means, as details
of the Trust’s expenditure over £25,000 is available on the Trust’s
website at [4]https://www.hdft.nhs.uk/about/trust/fina...

 

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your
own purposes, including any non‐commercial research you are doing and for
the purposes of news reporting. Any other re-use, for example commercial
publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder. Most
documents supplied by HDFT will have been produced by government
officials and will be Crown Copyright. You can find details on the
arrangements for re‐using Crown Copyright on HMS Online at:
[5]http://www.hmso.gov.uk/copyright/licence...

 

Information you receive which is not subject to Crown Copyright continues
to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from
which the information originated. You must ensure that you gain their
permission before reproducing any third party (non Crown Copyright)
information.

 

Should you be dissatisfied with this response you are welcome to contact
me again for further information. In addition, under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 you are also able to make a formal
complaint regarding the handling of this information request. Your
complaint will be handled in accordance with the Foundation Trust’s policy
on handling complaints. Your complaint should be put in writing and
addressed to the Chief Executive of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation
Trust at Harrogate District Hospital, Lancaster Park Road, Harrogate, HG2
7SX.

 

In addition, if you do not believe Harrogate and District NHS Foundation
Trust has dealt with your complaint properly, you may contact the
Information Commissioner. You should do this as soon as possible or in any
case within two months following the final response of the Foundation
Trust. This can be done online at [6]www.ico.gov.uk or in writing to
FOI/EIR Complaints Resolution, Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe
House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Freedom of Information Officer

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

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Dear FOI (RCD) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ENQUIRIES,

Thank you for your answer, however I noticed that the March 2019 data is still not available. When you wish to publish that month?

Yours sincerely,

Spend Network

FOI (RCD) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ENQUIRIES, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

Apologies that the March 2019 data is not available at the moment. This is due to the Trust's new financial software package which is causing some 'teething' challenges.

The website will be updated soonest.

Freedom of Information Officer
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear FOI (RCD) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ENQUIRIES,

Thank you for your answer, however I noticed that your data is only published up to February 2019. When you wish to publish the March 2019 data?

Yours sincerely,

Spend Network