NFRS 2023 125 - Recruitment agency spending

You asked for:

1. Please can you provide a breakdown of total temporary recruitment agency spend for Financial and Business Services from 2022/23 Please can this be broken down by department and agency in which provided these services
2. If you have a managed service provider (MSP) in place for the provision of temporary agency staff, please provide the following;
3. Who was the contract to manage/provide the supply of agency/temporary staff let to?
4. When did the contract to manage/provide the supply of temporary / agency staff commence, how long does it run for and what is the end date?

Our Response:

1. Please can you provide a breakdown of total temporary recruitment agency spend for Financial and Business Services from 2022/23 Please can this be broken down by department and agency in which provided these services

   Answer: - The information requested has been deemed exempt by virtue of section 21(1) Information reasonably accessible by other means, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

2. If you have a managed service provider (MSP) in place for the provision of temporary agency staff, please provide the following;

   Answer: - No Information Held, Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service does not have a managed service provider (MSP).

3. Who was the contract to manage/provide the supply of agency/temporary staff let to?

   Answer: - N/A

4. When did the contract to manage/provide the supply of temporary / agency staff commence, how long does it run for and what is the end date?

   Answer: - N/A

21. Information accessible to applicant by other means.

1. Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under section 1 is exempt information.
2. For the purposes of subsection (1)—
   1. Information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, and
   2. Information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
3. For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a public authority and does not fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be regarded as reasonably accessible to the applicant merely because the information is available from the public authority itself on request, unless the information is made available in accordance with the authority’s publication scheme and any payment required is specified in, or determined in accordance with, the scheme.

Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is categorised as an Absolute and Class Based type exemption and therefore does not require a public interest test to be carried nor must Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service articulate the harm in disclosure.

The information requested can be accessed at the following location What we spend.