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FOI 195 – Expenses and Costs

The OPCC is asked to provide information about PCC expenses and costs.

FOI Request

I wish to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, that you supply me with:

  1. All costs associated with the Police and Crime Commissioners expenses.
  2. All costs associated with the Police and Crime Commissioners spending on Travel and meals.
  3. All costs associated with the employment of Political Advisers.
  4. All financial detail of spending reserves.
  5. All information, including spending and detail of training days for PCC staff.
  6. All information relating to the detail and cost of policing individual events.
  7. All costs related to PCC inauguration events.
  8. Full detail on the PCC’s calendar of meetings and events.

FOI Response

The Office of the Police & Crime Commission for Cleveland has some recorded information on the areas of your request.

In order to make it easier to respond to you, I have numbered the areas of your requests.

Points 1 and 2 – I am refusing this element of your request under s21 of the Act as the information you seek is reasonably accessible to you by other means namely our website. This may be found at the following address:

Expenses [link to 1.3.9]

Point 3 – We have no recorded information on this matter.

Point 4 – I am refusing this element of your request under s21 of the Act as the information you seek is reasonably accessible to you by other means namely our website. This may be found at the following address ;

Financial planning [link to 1.4.3]

To assist you further in addition to this, full detail of all reserves held and used by the PCC are included within the Statement of Accounts, which can be found at the following link;

Statement of accounts [link 1.4.5.2]

Again to assist you I would suggest Note 37 is the area that might be a good starting point.

Point 6 – There is no recorded information held. Under s16 of the Act, may I respectfully suggest you contact Cleveland Police who may hold the information you seek. They can be found at ; https://www.cleveland.police.uk/

Point 7 – We have no recorded information on this matter.

Point 8 – I am refusing this element of your request under s21 of the Act as the information you seek is reasonably accessible to you by other means namely our website. This may be found at the following address;

Events Calendar [link to events]

As for Point 5 I need to ask you to clarify this as it doesn’t provide a timeframe and depending on the timeframe may incur an exemption due to cost limits.

Date responded: 16 August 2018