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

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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