Disclosure Log

Mobile telephony services (FOI/4739)

Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 24 September 2024

Dear *****

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI/00004739

Thank you for your email of 3 September 2024 where you requested:

Organisation details
 
  1. What is your organisation"s name
 
  1. How many full-time employees are at your organisation
 
  1. Who is your mobile phone network provider

Renewal
 
  1. Did you switch on last renewal
 
  1. When did you renew the last time
 
  1. What is the contract length
 
  1. Did you use a Framework, if so which one

Contract and usage details
 
  1. How many total connections do you currently have
 
  1. How many connections are Voice only
 
  1. How many connections are Voice and Data
 
  1. Do you use a shared data bundle, if so, what is the data allowance
 
  1. What is your average data usage of the last 3 months
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for July 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for August 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for September 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for October 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for November 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for December 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for January 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for February 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for March 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for April 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for May 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for June 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
 
  1. Is VAT included in the above figures
 
  1. Do you have a hardware fund, if so, how much and is it included in the monthly spend
 
  1. Do you host any mobile phone masts on your premises, if so, how many and who provides them
 
  1. Who is the primary contact for this contract

From our preliminary assessment, it is clear that we will not be able to answer your request without further clarification. Under section 1(3) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), a public authority need not comply with a request unless any further information reasonably required to locate the information is supplied.  If a request is too broad or general in nature, then public authorities have a duty to provide advice and assistance to the applicant in order to focus the request.

In order to provide you with the information on the scale that you have requested would require us to manually review 1,500 leases or licence agreements to see if they cover the hosting of a mobile phone mast in relation to question 27.  We estimate that it will take 5 minutes to examine each document and this would total around 125 hours of staff time.

Section 12 of the Act makes provision for public authorities to refuse requests for information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, which for local government is set at £450.  This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.

We estimate that it will take us in excess of 18 hours to determine appropriate material and locate, retrieve and extract the information in reference to your request.  Therefore, your request will not be processed further.

You may wish to refine your request by narrowing its scope by being more specific about what information you particularly wish to obtain, including any dates or period of time relevant to the information required.  We are likely to be able to answer all questions other than number 27 in the time limit.

Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to FOI requests.  For further details about the use of information about you, please see the information handling privacy notice on our website at https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/4323566/informationgovernanceandinformationrightsprivacynotice.pdf.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information – Team Manager, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected].

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications. 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/foi-and-eir-complaints/.

Yours sincerely

Colin Sawers
Information Case Officer | Customers, Complaints and Information
Chief Executive"s Department | Nottinghamshire County Council
County Hall | Loughborough Road | West Bridgford | NOTTINGHAM | NG2 7QP
Tel: (0115) 977 3714