- Title or Description
- Cost of Processing Freedom of Information
- FOI Number
- 2024295
- Date Received
- 07/03/2024
- Type of Request
- FOI
- Request or Question
- For the last 3 tax year's (23/22, 22/21, 21/20) please provide the total cost of: Total number of staff hired with responsibility for freedom of information requests, (full time equivalent) . Total salary costs for staff with responsibility for freedom of information requests. Total for all other costs associated with handling freedom of information requests. Total number of freedom of information requests received, and total number responded with the requested information.
- Response
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1. Please see response below for question 1 Year Salary Total 2020/21 3 FTE (Information Manager and 2 Information Officer)
2021/22 3 FTE (Information Manager and 2 Information Officer)
2022/23 3 FTE (Information Manager and 2 Information Officer)
2. Please see response below for question 2. This includes support from Legal Assistants. Legal Assistants also provided administrative support to Legal and Licensing. Year Salary Total 2020/21 107197.21
2021/22 144315.91
2022/23 156359.69
Grand Total 407872.81
For information, current individual salaries are as follows: Information Manager grade 9 [40,485.94 - 43,734.43 per annum] Information Officer - grade 7 [ 29,992.20 - 33,021.70 per annum] Legal Assistant grade 5 [23,768.96 - 25,831.20 per annum]
3. There are no other costs associated with handling information requests. To explain, the Council uses SharePoint to log and manage requests. There are FOI coordinators across the Council however, this is part of existing roles e.g., IT Business Partner etc.
4. This information is publicly available. Therefore section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 applies. FOI and EIRs statistics | Scottish Information Commissioner (itspublicknowledge.info)
