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HMIE Requests and Responses

Request Response
Date Received: 18/10/10
Date Responded: 27/10/10

Applicant sought:
(a) The number of staff employed by your organisation paid more than £100,000 per annum.
(b) The number of staff employed by your organisation paid between £80,000 and £100,000 per annum.
(c) The number of staff employed by your organisation paid less than £80,000 per annum.
(d) The total salary bill for the group of staff in (a).
(e) The total salary bill for the group of staff in (b).
(f) The total salary bill for the group of staff in (c).
Response
Date Received: 14/6/10
Date Responded: 22/6/10

Applicant sought:
Information relating to how many PR companies and public affairs agencies have been hired by HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) in each of the last three years, including the value of these contracts and the purpose.
Response
Date Received: 8/6/10
Date Responded: 22/6/10

Applicant sought:
• How many days were worked by temporary staff (fixed term appointments (FTAs) and agency staff) in HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE);
• and what the cost of this work was, in 2007/08 and 2008/09.
Response
Date Received: 18/5/10
Date Responded:10/6/10

Applicant sought:
• How much HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) has spent on corporate merchandising in 2009-10; and
• How much HMIE intends to spend on corporate merchandising in 2010-11?
Response
Date Received: 14/4/10
Date Responded: 19/4/10

Applicant sought:
How much HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) has spent employing individuals in a freelance capacity in each of the past five years, and the nature of the work in each case.
Response
Date Received: 6/4/10
Date Responded: 13/4/10

Applicant sought:
• Do you use any procurement frameworks for the sourcing of Interim Consultants/Employees?
• Do you use any procurement frameworks for the sourcing of temporary workers?
• Do you have a Preferred Supplier List for either of the activities listed above?
• Can I have name of any procurement frameworks in place for either the sourcing of Interim or Temporary Resources?
• Can I have the date in which those frameworks will expire and or come up for renewal/re tender?
• Can I have the vehicle that you use to tender those frameworks?
• Can I have the name of any supplier managing a Preferred Supplier List?
Response
Date Received: 8/2/10
Date Responded: 5/3/10

Applicant sought:
• Since 8 October 2008 to date, the percentage of suppliers’ invoices that a) have and b) have not been paid within 10 days
• Since 8 October 2008 to date, a) the number of suppliers who have not been paid within 10 days and b) the total value of the suppliers’ invoices concerned.
• Since 8 October 2008 to date, a) how much the organisation paid to suppliers in interest for late payment pursuant to the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 and b) the total value of the suppliers’ invoices concerned.
• Since 1 April 2008, how much the organisation paid to suppliers in interest for late payment pursuant to the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 and b) the total value of the suppliers’ invoices concerned.
Response
Date Received: 22/1/10
Date Responded: 25/1/10

Applicant sought:
• the number of staff who are entitled to a car as part of their remuneration package who are currently (a) earning more than £100,000 and (b) earning between £80,000 and £100,000;
• the number of staff who currently have such a car for each of those salary bands (a) and (b); and
• what the total cost to HMIE is of providing these cars for each of those salary bands (a) and (b).
Response
Date Received: 30/10/09
Date Responded:13/11/09

Applicant sought:
The salary information to be dated from that day, 30 October, and request in addition to this the number of people marked in the salary report provided on pay band £75-80k who are now earning above £80,000.
Response
Date Received: 31/8/09
Date Responded:10/9/09

Applicant sought:
The cost of developing, running and managing the HM Inspectorate of Education website, during the financial years 2006/07, 2007/08, and 2008/09 and for a breakdown of what these costs were for.
Response
Date Received: 18/5/09
Date Responded:16/6/09

Applicant sought:
• Can you please detail, for each year since your public website was launched, how much money has been spent on creating, developing and running it. Where possible, please break these costs out by function
• Where the costs have been incurred with external providers, please list the company in question.
• For internal staff time, if this is not recorded and/or charged explicitly, please provide estimates based on salary/overheads of people involved.
• Please could you also provide the number of unique visitors to your website broken down by year.
Response
Date Received: 13/4/09
Date Responded: 12/5/09

Applicant sought:
• How much money was spent by your organisation on the provision of all translation into languages other than English - including translating and publishing documents, as well as interpreting services, in the financial years 2003/4, 2006/07 and 2008/09?
• Did you engage with other authorities to share resources concerning the translation of documents in the financial year 2008/09?
• HMIE collaborated with Learning and Teaching Scotland, The Scottish Qualifications Authority and Bòrd na Gàidhlig when translating materials.
• For translated documents made available online during the financial year 2008/09, could you please provide a breakdown of how many times these were accessed?
• What languages in 2008/2009 were translated? Can you please submit this list in descending order from the most translated language down to the least.
Response
Date Received: 2/4/09
Date Responded: 14/4/09

Applicant sought:
The number of job vacancies currently advertised within your department on this day 1/04/09 broken down into those advertised internally and those advertised externally.
Response