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Mobile Phones

Request date
28 February 2025

Outcome
Information not held

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Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting information regarding mobile phones issued to public servants within all Non-Departmental Public Bodies sponsored by your department over the past five years. Specifically, I seek the following details for each of the financial years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24:

  1. Number of Mobile Phones Issued: The total number of mobile phones issued to public servants within the all Non-Departmental Public Bodies sponsored by your department during each specified financial year.
  2. Number Not Returned: The total number of mobile phones not returned to the Non-Departmental Public Bodies sponsored by your department after public servants left their employment in each specified financial year.
  3. Number Remaining Active: The total number of mobile phones that remained active (i.e., connected to a network with ongoing service) after public servants left their employment in each specified financial year, including the duration (in months) these phones remained active post-departure, if available.
  4. Costs of Phones Not Returned or Remaining Active:

a. The total cost of handsets for mobile phones that were not returned or remained active after civil servants left, broken down by year.

b. The total cost of data and phone call charges incurred by these mobile phones after the public servants' departure, broken down by year.

Response

Thank you for your request which has been processed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

In your email you have requested:

‘Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting information regarding mobile phones issued to public servants within all Non-Departmental Public Bodies sponsored by your department over the past five years. Specifically, I seek the following details for each of the financial years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24:

  1. Number of Mobile Phones Issued: The total number of mobile phones issued to public servants within the all Non-Departmental Public Bodies sponsored by your department during each specified financial year.
  2. Number Not Returned: The total number of mobile phones not returned to the Non-Departmental Public Bodies sponsored by your department after public servants left their employment in each specified financial year.
  3. Number Remaining Active: The total number of mobile phones that remained active (i.e., connected to a network with ongoing service) after public servants left their employment in each specified financial year, including the duration (in months) these phones remained active post-departure, if available.
  4. Costs of Phones Not Returned or Remaining Active:

a. The total cost of handsets for mobile phones that were not returned or remained active after civil servants left, broken down by year.

b. The total cost of data and phone call charges incurred by these mobile phones after the public servants' departure, broken down by year.’

The Gambling Commission can confirm that no information is held falling within the scope of your request.

Review of the decision

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your Freedom of Information request you are entitled to an internal review of our decision. You should write to FOI Team, Gambling Commission, 4th floor, Victoria Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B2 4BP or by reply to this email. 

Please note, internal review requests should be made within 40 working days of the initial response. Requests made outside this timeframe will not be processed.

If you are not content with the outcome of our review, you may then apply directly to the Information Commissioner (ICO) for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have already exhausted the review procedure provided by the Gambling Commission. 

It should be noted that if you wish to raise a complaint with the ICO about the Commission’s handling of your request for information, then you are required to do so within six weeks of receiving your final response or last substantive contact with us.

The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office (opens in a new tab), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Information Management Team
Gambling Commission

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