Trust HQ
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Brockworth
Gloucester
GL3 4AW
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E-mail: freedomofinformation@ghc.nhs.uk Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
DATE: 16/03/2021
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 033-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below attached as a separate excel spreadsheet. Should you have any queries in relation to our response in this letter, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:-
Associate Director of Corporate Governance Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth
GLOUCESTER GL3 4AW
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Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
On behalf of Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
FOI Request
I would like to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding the following:
1. The spending per financial year on translation services written. and interpreting services oral. for your organisation over each of the following 5 financial years: 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, as well as the languages involved. Please do not include data regarding the spending on services for the deaf and blind such as sign language interpreting or Braille..
2. The total budget for your organisation for each of the 5 financial years the information above is provided on, for all expenses not just for translation and interpreting services, i.e. to include all expenses such as salaries, utilities, equipment, consumables etc., with only the total figure given, no breakdown necessary. For example, I assume the total budget would be a few dozen or hundred million pounds per financial year. This is so that I can calculate the translation and interpreting spending as a percentage of the organisation's total budget which I suspect would be around or under 0.1%.. The data will be compiled, analysed and published on https://inboxtranslation.com
The above data and subsequent analysis will be part of my research and published on the above website. This means it would be available for free to anyone, so not used commercially. Can you please confirm this is OK from a copyright point of view? I would appreciate it if you could fill in and return the attached Excel document with the information requested only the first tab, named Data.. The second tab, named Example, is just an example of what I am looking for in terms of the information provided.
If there is anything unclear in my request or would like more information regarding the purpose of my research, please let me know, I would be happy to clarify.
Many thanks.