UKEB FOIA Disclosure Log

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Freedom of Information Act 2000 & Environmental Information Regulations 2004

No. Response Date Reference Legislation Applied Request Response
1. 05/07/2021 F196 FOI Copy of a paper presented to TAG on 15 September 2020. The information contained within the paper referred to, was created and collated in confidence as part of discussion in a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meetings. The purpose of TAG is to provide technical support to the Endorsement Board secretariat in developing advice, guidance and policy in connection with specific matters. The TAG is an advisory group rather than a decision-making body and its advice will form one element only of the evidence considered by the UK Endorsement Board (UKEB). All members of TAG agree in advance to rules surrounding confidentiality and it remains a condition of involvement that the matters discussed within sessions are kept confidential between participants. There is a strong possibility that if the information were to be released publicly, members of TAG would refuse to take part in future activities or would minimise their involvement for fear of matters they discuss during meetings later becoming public. If this were to happen, it would reduce the efficacy of UKEB-stakeholder engagement and may later have a negative effect on UKEB decision-making. We consider that section 31 (law enforcement) of the Act applies. In addition, a response under the Act is considered to be a response to the world at large, not just to the individual who has requested the information. As some of the information was received from attendees (rather than created by the UKEB), we consider that section 41 (Information provided in confidence) of the Act applies. A detailed explanation of why these exemptions apply was provided in an annex.
2. 19/10/2021 F210 FOI Please supply me with information about email contact between (named individual), a member of the UK Endorsement Board, and other members of the UK Endorsement Board and its staff as well as any external parties such as external legal advisors or colleagues at (named organisation) on any matter since 1 May 2021. Clearly, this is a request for 'recorded information' and as such would include inter alia emails, notes, records of telephone calls, briefings and reports. The simplest way to comply with this request would be to supply copies of any email sent or received by (named individual) whether through their UKEB email address or any other email address such as a personal email account or their (named organisation) email account. Looking at your request, whilst it may be possible that we hold information falling within scope, to establish whether we hold the information will exceed the cost limit. To carry out the exercise of identifying all relevant information within scope would exceed the cost limit provided for in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004, therefore Section 12 (Cost of compliance exceeds appropriate limit) of the Act applies. Further information on the application of this exemption was provided in an annex. Please note that in reaching the conclusion that your request exceeds the appropriate cost limit, we have not considered whether any other exemptions under the Act apply. As our policy is not to divert our resources from our functions in order to meet requests under the Act in excess of the cost limit, we will not carry out an exercise to identify the information you have requested.
3. 19/10/2021 F212 FOI Please supply me with information about any technical assessment prepared for the UK Endorsement Board (the body now responsible for endorsing IFRS accounting standards post-Brexit for use in the UK) about IFRS 17, Insurance Contracts, including its disclosure requirements. Looking at your request, whilst it may be possible that we hold information falling within scope, to establish whether we hold the information will exceed the cost limit. To carry out the exercise of identifying all relevant information within scope would exceed the cost limit provided for in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004, therefore Section 12 (Cost of compliance exceeds appropriate limit) of the Act applies. Further information on the application of this exemption was provided in an annex. Please note that in reaching the conclusion that your request exceeds the appropriate cost limit, we have not considered whether any other exemptions under the Act apply. As our policy is not to divert our resources from our functions in order to meet requests under the Act in excess of the cost limit, we will not carry out an exercise to identify the information you have requested.
4. 08/12/2021 F216 FOI Clearly, this is a request for 'recorded information' and as such includes inter alia emails, notes, records of telephone calls, briefings and reports, but specifically any technical analysis document or report. The period covered by this request is from 1 January 2021 to 15 October 2021. The UK Endorsement Board (“UKEB”) confirms that it holds some information within the scope of the request. However, some information is being withheld because it is considered exempt pursuant to section 36(2)(b) of FOIA, and section 40 of FOIA. A detailed explanation of how these exemptions apply was provided in an annex, together with some emails and documents. Some of the information in the emails and documents was redacted because it was outside the scope of your request.
5. 21/12/2021 F225 FOI "Correspondence” means, all internal and external letters, memoranda, notes of telephone conversations, e-mails and handwritten notes. "Records of meetings” means records in whatever form. “Company law” means the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and common law. I make the following request under the Freedom of Information Act upon the unincorporated UK Endorsement Board. All correspondence, and records of meetings, concerning the procurement or potential procurement of legal advice from any member of (named organisation), including (named individuals). The period covered by this request is from 1 April 2021 to date, 25 November 2021. "Correspondence” means, all internal and external letters, memoranda, notes of telephone conversations, e-mails and handwritten notes. "Records of meetings" means records in whatever form. The UK Endorsement Board (UKEB) confirms that it holds information within the scope of your request. However, we are withholding this information because it is considered exempt pursuant to s.40, s.42 and s.43 of FOIA. An explanation of how these exemptions apply was provided in an annex.
6. 11/07/2022 F244 FOI A copy of the Service Level Agreement between the Financial Reporting Council and UK Accounting Standards Endorsement Board Limited. The UK Endorsement Board (UKEB) confirms that it is party to a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the FRC. Redactions have been applied to parts of schedule 4. These redactions have been applied as we consider that section 43 (Commercial Interests) of the Act applies as disclosure of the redacted paragraphs would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). Redactions have been applied to remove personal information concerning UKEB staff and other individuals. Therefore, we consider that section 40 (Personal data) of the Act applies. An explanation of how these exemptions apply was provided in an annex.
7. 23/09/2022 F252 FOI I would like to make a request for the following information relating to the authority's current Multi-Functional Devices and printing/scanning services contract(s)\n1. What services are included in the contract(s)? (e.g. printing vs scanning etc)\n2. Which supplier is delivering them? (If in-house, please confirm or if multiple provider please identify them)\n3. How many contracts does this entail and what's the award value for each?\n4. When do these contracts expire and do they have any extensions?\n5. What is the annual volumetric data (split by Annual Mono and Annual Colour print)?\n6. What is the total number of devices supplied?\n7. What Managed Print Service software solution do you use?\n8. How many Mono MFDs and Colour MFDs do you have?\n9. What document management solution do you use?\n10. What High Volume printing devices do you use?\n11. Were any framework agreements used to procure the goods/services? If so, which ones?\n12. Any documentation you can provide me with, e.g. the order form\n13. What department is managing the contract and who's the decision-maker?\n14. How many Adobe Acrobat (standard, professional and reader) licenses do you have?\n15. What is the annual cost?\n16. When is the renewal date?\n17. Who is responsible for the contract?\n18. Do you use any other PDF editing tools? 1. The UKEB's printing and scanning services (“services”) are provided under one contract.\n2. ACS Office Systems (“ACS”) provides these services to the UKEB.\n3. All services (including IT services) are provided to the UKEB under the UKEB's Service Level Agreement with the FRC. The FRC has a contract with ACS for the provision of these services, which are priced and covered in one contract. As a result, we do not have the award value for each of the services. We are unable to provide the total award value for our contract with ACS as disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice the commercial interest of ACS, the UKEB and the FRC. Therefore, we are withholding this information under section 43 of FOIA. An explanation of how these exemptions apply was provided in an annex.\n4. The FRC's contract with ACS is on a rolling basis. Therefore, the contract does not have an expiry date.\n5. The annual volumetric data for Annual mono print is estimated at 24,000 and for Annual Colour print is estimated at 12,000.\n6. The UKEB has 2 devices.\n7. The UKEB uses Papercut as its Managed Print Service software solution.\n8. The UKEB has 1 Mono MFDs and 1 Colour MFDs.\n9. The UKEB uses SharePoint as its document management solution.\n10. The UKEB does not have any High Volume printing devices.\n11. The FRC did not use a framework agreement to procure its goods and services with ACS.\n12. We have interpreted “any document" to mean any recorded information we hold in relation to our procurement process with our services provider, ACS. Disclosure of this information would or would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of ACS, the UKEB and the FRC. Therefore, we are withholding this information under section 43 of FOIA. An explanation of how these exemptions apply was provided in an annex.\n13. The Head of IT manages the contract with ACS. We are unable to provide the name of the Head of IT as it is information concerning another individual, therefore we consider that section 40 (personal information) of FOIA applies. An explanation of how these exemptions apply was provided in an annex.\n14. The UKEB uses Adobe Acrobat Reader on all of the UKEB's computers. This is a free product and is installed on 33 computers.\n15. Adobe Acrobat Reader is a free product.\n16. There is no renewal date.\n17. Please refer to our response to question 15.\n18. The UKEB uses Kofax Power PDF.
8. 10/10/2022 F254 FOI Please can your organisation provide in Excel CSV format, the following information:\na) The number of roles in your association (expressed in numbers of FTE), that are mainly or exclusively focussed on issues of equality, diversity, or inclusivity. For example, this could include (amongst other guises) “EDI officers" or "diversity and inclusion project managers” but would not include general HR managers.\nb) Either a) the pay band of each of these roles, or b) the combined total salaries for these roles. Whichever measure is more in accordance with your data preferences.\nc) In the past 12 months the number of staff days across your organisation which have been committed to attending equality training programmes, whether internally run or with external consultants. (staff days = duration of the training programme multiplied by the number of staff in attendance for the course).\nd) The contractual cost of any consultants hired, in the past twelve months, to provide any external training or advice on issues of diversity, equality, or inclusivity.\ne) In the past twelve months, the number of staff days committed to attending conferences relating mainly or exclusively to matters of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. (duration of conference multiplied by the number of staff in attendance).\nf) The costs of attending these conferences.\ng) Membership costs the organisation pays for participation in equality charters such as the Stonewall Equality Champions, or Diversity and Inclusion Workplace champions. We have provided the information we hold in the format requested in a separate attachment. We have withheld the pay band of the role as it contains personal information concerning another individual. Therefore, we consider that section 40 (Personal data) of FOIA applies. Further information on the application of this exemption is set out in an annex. Please note: The FRC provides the UKEB with diversity and inclusion services. UKEB staff are FRC employees who are seconded to support the work of the UKEB. As such, they have access to the FRCs diversity and inclusion provisions, including training. As a result, it may be useful to refer to the equivalent information on diversity and inclusion in relation to the FRC. For this reason, data for the FRC is included in the attachment issued.
9. 01/11/2022 F258 FOI I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, the information requested below. The details we require are:\n1. Who is your social media management and monitoring tool supplier?\n2. Start date & duration of framework/contract with the supplier\n3. Actual spend on this contract/framework (and any sub lots), from the start of the contract to the current date\n4. Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract? The UK Endorsement Board does not currently have a social media management and monitoring tool supplier. Therefore we do not hold the information you have requested.
10. 13/01/2023 F261 FOI All correspondence, and records of meetings, with, or which refer to mention or cite Martin Moore QC (or as now KC). Looking at your request, while it may be possible that we hold information falling within scope, to establish whether we hold the information will exceed the cost limit. To carry out the exercise of identifying all relevant information within scope would exceed the cost limit provided for in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 ('the Regulations') made by the Ministry of Justice. Therefore, section 12 (Cost of compliance exceeds appropriate limit) of the FOIA applies. Further information on the application of this exemption is set out in an annex. Please note that in reaching the conclusion that your request exceeds the appropriate cost limit, we have not considered whether any other exemptions under the Act apply. As our policy is not to divert our resources from our regulatory functions in order to meet requests under the Act in excess of the cost limit, we will not carry out an exercise to identify the information you have requested.
11. 20/03/2023 EBF267 FOI I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The period covered by this request is from 1 April 2020 to date, 1 December 2022. "Correspondence” means, all internal and external letters, memoranda, notes of telephone conversations, e-mails and handwritten notes. "Records of meetings” means records in whatever form. The requested information has been provided in an appendix. Available here:
12. 04/08/2023 EBF276 FOI Please provide a list of any and all contact your organisation and/or staff have had with British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International, Philip Morris International, as well as any other domestic or transnational tobacco companies or anyone representing the tobacco industry including subsidiaries of tobacco industry. I would like this information for the period from 1 April 2021 to 20 February 2023. Contact would primarily include attending or arranging meetings or functions, and responding to correspondence or phone calls. Please break down the information by:\nTobacco company or representative's name\nDate of contact(s)\nType of contact (meeting, email, letter, phone call, text/app message or video call, e-card or any other form of electronic communication)\nPlace of contact, if relevant\nPurpose of contact\nOutcome of contact, including if no action taken UKEB does not have a corporate estate, rather it has an allocated workspace within an office building managed by the Government Property Agency. Accordingly, the UKEB does not hold this information.
13. 09/01/2024 EB296 FOI Please can you provide me with information concerning the maintenance of your corporate estate i.e. operational buildings, land and any other property (e.g. investment) and schools, if they are within your jurisdiction. Not any social housing/dwellings.\nQ1. What type of maintenance management model does your organisation use? E.g. Managed supply-chain, single hard-fm & soft-fm contractor, internal workforce, principal contractor etc.\nQ2. Can you provide a list of the approved contractors used?\nQ3. What are the total values of contracts granted?\nQ4. When do these contracts expire?\nQ5. What services are provided in each contract?\nQ6. What procurement method was used? E.g. Open ITT, Framework if so, which one?\nI wish to make an FOI request. Please provide me with the following information for the financial years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23. All expenditure made by your organisation, in every facet of its operations and purview, on translation, interpretation, and language services. Please provide the aggregated total spent by your organisation and then, if possible, please provide this broken down by particular function for which the service was carried out. We have interpreted “translation, interpretation and language services” to mean services relating to the translation of one language into another language. The UKEB has not incurred any costs on translation, interpretation, or language services.
14. 17/05/2024 EBF306 FOI Please can you respond to the following request for Information. The details I require are:\n1. Spend on Office supplies and associated products for the below financial years.\n 1st April 2022 – 31st March 2023\n 1st April 2023 – 31st March 2024\n2. Start date & duration of Contract?\n3. Is there an extension clause in the contract and, if so, the duration of the extension?\n4. Has a decision been made yet on whether the contract is to be either extended or renewed?\n5. Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for the contract?\n6. Name of Incumbent Supplier?\n7. How long have you traded with them?\n8. If you publish your register of contracts and purchasing, can you please provide a website link.\n9. In addition, can you confirm if you have a contract in place for Tail End Spend. We confirm the UKEB holds the information you have requested and we will respond using the same numbering.\nThe UKEB receives operational support from the Financial Reporting Council (“FRC"). Part of this operational support relates to the procurement and management of contracts for the provision of office supplies and associated products.\n1. The spend on UKEB office supplies and associated products for the financial years requested are as follows:\n 1st April 2022 – 31st March 2023: £3,005.13\n 1st April 2023 – 31st March 2024: £3,083.11\n2. The contract (which is with the FRC) commenced in 2017 as a rolling contract which will continue until terminated by notice in accordance with the terms of the contract.\n3. There is no extension clause in the contract.\n4. No. The FRC will consider renewal of the contract in 2025.\n5. The UKEB is unable to disclose the requested information as this would be disclosing personal data, to which we consider section 40 (Personal Information) of FOIA applies. Further information on why we consider this exemption to apply was provided in an annex.\n6. The Banner Group Limited.\n7. The UKEB does not trade with the Supplier. The FRC has traded with the Banner Group Limited since 2017.\n8. The UKEB does not publish a register of contracts and purchasing. The FRC publishes details of contracts it has awarded pursuant to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Those details can be found at the following link: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk\n9. There is no contract in place for Tail End Spend.\nWe confirm the UKEB does not hold the information you have requested.
15. 04/07/2024 EBF314 FOI Under the Freedom of Information Act, for the tax years 2014/15 to We confirm the UKEB does not hold the information you have requested.
16. 22/01/2025 EBF332 FOI I would like to know ... the scores of those that were selected for interview please. I would also like to know the numbers selected for interview and how many (if any) were selected as a result of the disability confident scheme.\n\n2022/23 inclusive, please would you please fully disclose the following details, breaking the figures by year:\n1. How much revenue has been received by your organisation for services rendered to film and television productions? This could include location rental, permits and all other services related to film productions using your personnel or resources.\n2. Please outline the type of work or service rendered, in each case and disclose the revenue received for each type of service.\n3. How much has your organisation spent on facilitating such arrangements between 2014/15 to 2022/23, inclusive, broken down by year? Looking at your request, the scores of those that were selected for interview is personal information relating to the successful candidates who, it is anticipated, will be appointed to the three UKEB Board member roles for which the recruitment campaign is being run. Therefore, we consider that section 40 (Personal information) of the Act applies and we are withholding the above requested information on that basis. Further information on the application of this exemption is set out in an annex. We are, however, able to disclose to you information in response to the remaining parts of your request. Nine candidates were selected for interview across the three roles for which the recruitment campaign was run. None of these candidates was selected for interview as a result of the disability confident scheme.
17. 09/03/2026 EBF385 FOI Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following recorded information held by your department regarding assurance processes for software based data erasure of end of life IT equipment. For clarity, this request relates solely to software based data destruction. Please exclude physical destruction methods such as shredding, crushing, degaussing or disintegration.\n1. Please confirm whether departmental policy, contractual terms or internal procedures require an explicit outcome based warranty or guarantee confirming that personal data has been rendered irretrievable through software based erasure, whether carried out internally or by an external provider.\n2. Where software based data destruction is performed internally, what recorded evidential assurance does the department rely upon to conclude that the final data state is irretrievable?\n3. Where software based data destruction is performed by a third party provider, does the department hold recorded information demonstrating that any warranty or assurance provided explicitly extends to the software erasure method used and its claimed effectiveness? If so, please confirm the recorded nature of that verification.\n4. Where no explicit outcome based warranty is required or provided, what recorded form of evidential assurance does the department rely upon to conclude that software based erasure has rendered personal data irretrievable? The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) provides the UK Endorsement Board (UKEB) with operational resources, including IT infrastructure and associated data management services. The matters raised in your request therefore relate to processes delivered by the FRC on behalf of the UKEB.\nWe have set out our response using your numbering in your request.\n1. The FRC does not have a policy, procedures or contractual terms relating to software-based data destruction for end-of-life IT equipment.\n2. The FRC does not undertake a recorded assurance process relating to software based data destruction for end-of-life IT equipment.\n3. The FRC does not hold any recorded information demonstrating that any warranty or assurance provided by third-party service providers explicitly extends to their software-based erasure method used.\n4. The FRC does not gather any form of evidential assurance in relation to the software based erasure of end-of-life IT equipment.