Scottish Government payments on mobile phones in the last three years: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.


Information requested

 

Details of any Scottish Government payments on mobile phones in the last three years, including a full breakdown of the costs, quantity and date purchased.

 

Response

 

This response covers the mobile telephony services provided by the central IT Division for the core Scottish Government and the following bodies: Accountancy in Bankruptcy; Scottish Human Rights Commission; Disclosure Scotland; Scottish Public Pensions Agency; Care Inspectorate Agency; Scottish Agriculture Science Agency; and Transport Scotland.

Financial Year

Running costs of all Mobile Telephony including VAT

Purchase costs Including VAT

2015/2016

£1,281,528

£107,902

2016/2017

£1,092,526

£135.648

2017/2018

£975,700

£387,530

 

Table 2 summarises the total number of mobile connections purchased since 1st April 2015.

Voice only Connections

Voice & Data Connections

Data only Connections

      291

5,085

1,799


While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the costs of locating, retrieving and providing the information requested would exceed the upper cost limit of £600.  In order to provide a breakdown on a yearly basis of the number of connections would require manually checking the purchase date of all mobile connections in detail.  Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.

 

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Contact

Please quote the FOI reference
Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

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