Interpretation Project at MoJ has no details of Capita's subcontractors
Margaret Haig
Interpretation Project
Ministry of Justice, 2.19,
2nd Floor, 102 Petty France,
London,
SW1H 9AJ
E interpretationproject@justice.gsi.gov.uk
www.justice.gov.uk
Katya Ford
Our Reference: FOI - 82887 7 June 2013
Dear Ms Ford,
Freedom of Information Request
Thank you for your e-mail of 19 May 2013, in which you asked for the following information from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ):
“I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
1. Please provide a list of subcontractors of Capita Translation and Interpreting under the Framework Agreement/Service Level Agreement with HMCTS, approved by the Ministry of Justice/HMCTS under Section 26.4 of the Framework Agreement for language services.
2. Please provide a list of subcontractors drawn up from copies of each sub-contract Capita Translation and Interpreting duly sent to the Ministry of Justice/HMCTS under Section 26.3 of the Framework Agreement for language services.
Please let me have the information requested above in the electronic form.
Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
I can confirm that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not hold the information that you have requested. To establish whether the information was held I conducted a thorough search, and made enquires with MoJ Procurement. It may help if I clarify that information is not held by MoJ because there is no legal, or business requirement for MoJ to hold the information being requested. Contract clauses 26.3 and 26.4, to which you have referred in your request, allow the MoJ to request information from Capita but do not require it to do so.
Please be advised that the FOIA does not oblige a public authority to create information to answer a request if the requested information is not held. It does not place a duty upon public authorities to answer a question unless recorded information exists. The FOIA duty is to only provide the recorded information held.
You can find out more about information held for the purposes of the Act by reading some guidance points we consider when processing a request for information, attached at the end of this letter.
You can also find more information by reading the full text of the Act, available at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/contents.
You have the right to appeal our decision if you think it is incorrect. Details can be found in the ‘How to Appeal’ section attached at the end of this letter.
Disclosure Log
You can also view information that the Ministry of Justice has disclosed in response to previous Freedom of Information requests. Responses are anonymised and published on our on-line disclosure log which can be found on the MoJ website:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-requests/latest-moj-disclosurelog
Yours sincerely
Margaret Haig
HMCTS Interpretation Project
