FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/03353
- Request Date
- October 9, 2019
- Subject
- IT And Telecommunications Equipment
- Description
1). How Many staff do you have in your organisation?
2). How many operational sites does the organisation have?
3). Who has the overall responsibility for the disposal of IT equipment within the organisation? Please supply Name, Job Title, Telephone and Email contact details.
4). Does the organisation currently have an IT asset disposal policy?
5). Do you use a third-party IT asset disposal company for this?
6). What is the name of that partner?
7). Do you have a contract in place with this company?
8). How often are disposal collections run?
9). If a contract is in place, when does this expire?
10). Do you currently pay for this service? If so, what is the typical cost over a 12-month period?
11). How old is each asset before it is disposed of? E.g. 3 /4 / 5 years
12). Do you presently receive any money back (rebates) for IT assets that you send to your disposal company?
13). Do you have a nominated Infrastructure Manager and who is this? Please supply Name, Job Title, Telephone and Email contact details.
14). For devices with hard drive, do you require full destruction of hard drives, or just erasure and certification of erase?
15). Does the organisation have the ability to track an individual asset to ascertain the final route and destination of each asset disposed of? In the event of a data breech, how could you prove who had legal custody of each asset, and at what stage?
16). Does the current contract also include photocopiers / Multi-Functional Devices (MFDs)
17). How does your organisation finance MFDs… Lease or purchase?
18). Do you have a service contract in place for the copiers and if so when does this expire?
19). Does your organisation have a contract in place for shredding of other forms of data, namely paper documents?
20). What is the spend in the last 12 months on paper shredding / destruction?
21). If a contract is in place for paper and document shredding, when does this expire?
22). Does your supplier currently comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force on 25th May 2018?
23). What ISO accreditations do you require for a disposal company to have in order to work with your organisation?
24). Who is the current appointed Data Protection Officer within the organisation, or person that presently deals with data protection? Please supply Name, Job Title, Telephone and Email contact details.
25). Are there presently any other services that your organisation requires around the lifetime management of your IT assets?
- Response
1). According to our last annual report we have 6971 staff in our organisation
2). 3
3). Joanne Millar
ICT Developments Manager
01253 300000
4). Yes
5). Yes
6). Computer Disposals Limited.
7). Yes
8). Weekly
9). April 2021
10). £0 cost to the Trust
11). 5 Years
12). No
13). Kevin Flaherty
IT Infrastructure Manager
01253 300000
kevin.flaherty@nhs.net
14). Destruction of HDD takes place before leaving site
15). Yes
Data on all assets is removed or destroyed before removal from site for disposal and Serial Scanned before assets leave site
16). No
17). Lease
18). Yes – October 2024
19). Performed in house
20). N/A
21). N/A
22). N/A
23). N/A
24). Patricia Butcher
Data Protection Officer
01253 300000
patricia.butcher1@nhs.net
25). No