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Kingdom Services Group "Whistle Blower"

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Dear Wolverhampton City Council,

In relation to the following article released this evening by the Liverpool Echo. Please see the below link for clarity.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liv...

Could you answer the following questions please:

1. Could you confirm that you have read the article?

2. Could you confirm that the Enforcement officers employed by Kingdom are not being paid a bonus of £5 if they issue 5 FPNs and £5 for every subsequent FPN issued beyond 5 for the duration of each working shift?

3. Could you confirm that all Kingdom employees have been employed on full contracts and do not have zero-hour contracts working on behalf of the local authority?

4. Could you confirm whether Kingdom Service Group recognises the union and whether their employees are given the option of joining a union when commencing employment?

5. Could you confirm whether the local authority will allow Kingdom Services Group to use Flexi-Workers (again zero hour contracts)?

6. Could you confirm the date your contract is due to expire with Kingdom Services Group?

Yours faithfully,

P Rourke

FOI, Wolverhampton City Council

Dear P Rourke,

The Council wants to be as open as possible in answering requests, and to help people obtain the information they are looking for.

In this case, we have been asked to contact you by the department responding to clarify your questions.

The remaining questions are focused on Employees of Kingdom
In regards to Questions one, our firewall has blocked the link that you have provided. However, you have made mention to an article, and asked us to clarify that we have read the article. Please note that the Freedom of Information Act only allows us to respond using factual information that the City of Wolverhampton Council holds, we cannot provide you with opinions, only factual information.

Your remaining questions are asking for information on employees of Kingdom Services Group. As these employees are not City of Wolverhampton Employees, this information is not held by the City of Wolverhampton Council, If you can refine your questions in order to request factual information held by the council, we can look into this further for you.

In regards to your last question, this is exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act, as this information is published as part of our transparency scheme, and is available here:

https://wolverhamptoncouncil.accordcontr...

The total days taken to respond will be added to the deadline, if we do not hear from you in 90 days, we will consider the matter closed.

Yours sincerely,

Catherine Allin
Information Governance Assistant
Tel. Office: 01902 554498
E-mail: [email address]
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City Of Wolverhampton Council

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