1. Please can you confirm if your authority has paid fees to any of your suppliers of Adult or Children Social Care plus standard rated VAT (at 20%) at any time within the last six months?
Yes.
2. If yes, can you confirm:
a) The names of the care provider organisations (adult and/or children services) who you are paying plus VAT at standard rate (20%).
b) When did the council start paying these providers VAT.
The answers to questions 2a and 2b can be found below:
For Children’s Social Care, compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time. We would have to check every placement which would take at least 2 minutes at a time and with 623 placements, this would 20.7 hours and over the amount of officers time.
Under the Act, there is a duty to provide advice and assistance as to how a request can be refined to fit within the appropriate limit. Unfortunately, due to the way the data is held, this is not possible for this request.
For Adult’s Social Care, this information can be found at the following link VAT on Adult Social Care.