FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI 02338
- Request Date
- April 6, 2018
- Subject
- Public Funded Purchase/Credit Cards
- Description
I would like to request the following detail from Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust under the Freedom of Information Act:
1. Please provide statements for all purchase cards, ‘p-cards’, or any other credit or debit cards paid out using public funds, used by or for executive directors for the period April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2017. Please also provide receipts for these expenses.
2. Please also provide details of all spending by executive directors using their own money which is then then claimed back from public funds for the period April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2017. Please also provide receipts for these expenses.
3. Please also provide details of all spending on behalf of that individual, by the trust, for the period April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2017. Please also provide receipts for these expenses.
Such purchases might include, but are not restricted to, costs associated with private car use (eg mileage, care hire costs); public travel (e.g, train, bus, air fares); subsistence, (e.g. meals whilst away from normal place of work and hotel costs); spending on properties including purchase costs, rent, upkeep and refurbishment costs.
I recognise that this may overlap with material that you publish online but please note that I am asking for a level of detail which goes beyond this, so there is no argument that the material is already publicly accessible.
Please provide the above information for all executive directors for this time period. If this exceeds the cost limit under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide this information for as many executive directors as possible before the cost limit is reached, in this order of preference:
Chief Executive
Deputy Chief Executive
Chief Finance Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Medical Director
Commercial Development Director
Business Development Director
Strategic Director
Chief Nursing Officer
Director of Development
Director of HR
Director of Communications
And then all other Executive Directors.
I recognise that job titles vary between organisations so please find the closest possible comparator for those which I have named. If one of the roles I have stated do not exist in your organisation please omit them and move on to the next one in the list.
Again, please note that if it is possible within financial constraints, I would like the details for all executive directors – so the above list should not be necessary.
If more than one person has held a post during this time, please provide the information for both of those people.
Please provide my information digitally, unless this has implications for cost in which case please do whatever is most cost-efficient.
- Response
1. No purchase cards, ‘p-cards’, or any other credit or debit cards used by or for executive directors for the period April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2017.
2. Please see attached files:
Each file contains the executive director expenses summary as reported in the Trusts Annual Report & Accounts, followed by separate worksheets showing the amounts reimbursed by the Trust for each employee.
Please note that all receipts are retained by the employee and not by the Trust, consequently we are unable to provide copy receipts where applicable.3. There is no further spending on behalf of the individuals other than the costs reported in the replay to question 2.