Request
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please provide the total expenditure figures for the financial years 2007/8, 2008/9, and 2009/10 for the following services incurred by NHS East Midlands or subsidiary organisations (if exist) of NHS East Midlands, excluding PCT's.
1) Courier services by motorcycle or car for documents
2) Passenger services for staff, consultants, visitors, guests, advisors and suppliers
If NHS East Midlands only has a combined figure for all of the above, please provide that figure.
I look forward to receiving your response via email.
Our response
I refer to your email of 15 April 2011 requesting information in respect of Courier and Passenger services incurred by NHS East Midlands.
I can confirm in accordance with S.1 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) that we do hold the information that you have requested. I will address each of your queries in turn:
1) Courier services by motorcycle or car for documents for the financial years 2007/8, 2008/9, and 2009/10
The information requested is as follows:
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2007/08 £2,435
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2008/09 £2,641
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2009/10 £2,313
2) Passenger services for staff, consultants, visitors, guests, advisors and suppliers for the financial years 2007/8, 2008/9, and 2009/10
I can confirm that the SHA holds information relevant to your request. However, the provision of this information would entail us having to identify, locate, review and collate individual invoices from our accounts ledger. We estimate that to do this would exceed the appropriate limit as set out in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. The limit set down by the regulations for public authorities is £450, which amounts to a maximum of 18 hours of search and retrieval time charged at £25.00 per hour, the hourly rate also specified in the regulations. Under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 NHS East Midlands is therefore not obliged to provide this information to you.
If you are able to refine your request for a more narrow category of information, it might be that we could comply with that request within the appropriate limit, although I cannot guarantee that this would be the case
I hope that this information is of use. If you are dissatisfied with the way in which we have dealt with your request you can ask us to review our decision by writing to:-
Mr Moosa Patel
Director of Corporate Affairs
NHS East Midlands
Octavia House
Interchange Business Park
Bostock's Lane
Sandiacre
Nottingham
NG10 5QG
If at the conclusion of any review you remain dissatisfied you may complain to the Information Commissioner who can be contacted at:-
The Office of the Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
