Transactions over £500 from March 2019

The request was successful.

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for publishing your spend data here: https://www.brent.gov.uk/your-council/tr.... 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 £500 from March 2019 to at most a quarter 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

Dear Brent Borough Council,

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

Dear Sir or Madam,

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

I haven't got any answer 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.

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

Freedom of Information, Brent Borough Council

Dear Ms Homoki

Thank you for your email. I apologise that there was a delay with updating the website with information relating to the Council's transactions over £500. The information is now on the website.

Kind regards

Dorothy Watson
Freedom of Information and Complaints Investigation Officer
Complaints Service
Chief Executive Department
Tel: 020 8937 5312
Web: www.brent.gov.uk

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Dear Freedom of Information,

Thank you for the provided information, however I noticed that the last month uploaded is May 2019. Could you please let me know when June and July 2019 will be available?

Yours sincerely,

Spend Network

Freedom of Information, Brent Borough Council

Dear Ms Homoki

The website will be updated at the end of September 2019.

Kind regards

Dorothy Watson
Freedom of Information and Complaints Investigation Officer
Complaints Service
Chief Executive Department
Tel: 020 8937 5312
Web: www.brent.gov.uk

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Dear Freedom of Information,

Thank you for the information.

Yours sincerely,

Spend Network