Dear Ms Leal,

Thank you for your enquiry. In order to identify and locate the information that you have asked for the Council reasonably requires further information. I will not be able to take this matter further without extra information from you.

In particular, it would be useful to know whether you are referring to services in a particular area or areas, such as Adult Social Care.

It would also be useful to know whether you are referring to commissioned/contracted services, grant funded services, or another type of service; and whether you are referring to commercial services and/or to voluntary or third sector services.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom Of Information | West Sussex County Council | Location: County Hall, Chichester PO19 1RQ
E-mail: [email address]

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Dear Ms Leal,

Thank you for clarifying your request, which has now been passed to the appropriate officers for a response.

The usual timescale for a response is twenty working days, that is by or on 02 September 2016.

If for any reason the Council needs to extend this timescale you will be notified in accordance with the relevant legislation.

Please note that in 2012 the County Council adopted a position in principle that FoI and EIR requests to West Sussex County Council and the Council's responses may be published on the Council's website in a suitably anonymised form. This is in addition to the individual response to the requestor, and in line with the Council's commitment to transparency and open data.

Yours sincerely,

Dave Loveman
Customer Relations Manager

Freedom Of Information | West Sussex County Council | Location: County Hall, Chichester PO19 1RQ
E-mail: [email address]

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Dear Ms Leal,

I refer to your request below, which has been dealt with under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000.

We have now completed a search for the information which you requested and
I confirm the Authority holds information relevant to the request.

However the Council does not define vendors in a way which enables the
information relating to voluntary/third sector organisations to be
independently extracted. Furthermore, a change in the funding to a
particular organisation would not necessarily mean that a service had been
cut; it might be that it has moved to another provider or that it is being
provided in a different way. To respond to your request would therefore
require each item of expenditure to be manually examined and compared with
earlier years to determine whether it met the terms of your request. We
estimate that the cost of complying with your request would therefore
exceed the appropriate limit. The appropriate limit has been specified in
regulations and for local authorities it is set at £450. This represents
the estimated cost of one person spending 2 1/2 working days in
determining whether the Department holds the information, and locating,
retrieving and extracting the information. Under section 12 of the Freedom
of Information Act the Department is not obliged to comply with your
request and we will not be processing your request further.

If you were to make a new request for a narrower category of information,
it may be that we could comply with that request within the appropriate
limit, although I cannot guarantee that this will be the case. You may
wish to ask for assistance in narrowing your request.

However the Council does publish information which you may find of use.
Details of changes to services provided can be found in the budget papers
for the relevant year, which are published on this page:

[1]https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/about-the-...

Information about every transaction by the Council with a value over £100
can be found on this page of our website, which would allow you to choose
the providers you are interested in and to analyse the Council’s spending
with those providers.

[2]https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/about-the-...

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 reuse, for example commercial
publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder. Most
documents supplied by us will be copyright of West Sussex County Council.

Information you receive which is not subject to WSCC 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 WSCC) information.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

If you are unhappy with the way your request has been handled, you may
wish to ask for a review of our decision via [3][email address]. 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you may
apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally,
the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted our internal
review procedure. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

The Information Commissioner's Office,

Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely

Dave Loveman

Customer Relations Manager

Freedom Of Information |  [4]West Sussex County Council | Location:
County Hall, Chichester PO19 1RQ
E-mail: [5][email address]

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