FOI2022-00865 Losses and special payments
Published 26 January 2022
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Dear
I am writing in response to your email dated 20th January 2022 requesting the following information:
This is an information request relating to losses and special payments. Please include the information for each of the following periods; 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:
- The total number of cases of losses in each year.
- The total cost of losses in each year.
- An itemisation of each loss including what it was for and how much it cost.
- The total number of special payments in each year.
- The total value of special payments in each year.
- An itemisation of each special payment including what it was for and how much it cost.
I am treating your correspondence as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
In response to your queries, I have completed a search for the information within the Defence Electronics & Components Agency (DECA), and I can confirm that we do hold information in scope of your request and I detail the answers below.
- Total number and cost of losses in 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21
| Total number of losses 2018/19 | Total cost of losses 2018/19 | Total number of losses 2019/20 | Total cost of losses 2019/20 | Total number of losses 2020/21 | Total cost of losses 2020/21 |
| 37 | £3405.80 | 41 | £3168.03 | 14 | £6079.91 |
- Itemisation of each loss and total cost 2018/19
| 1 day car hire - meeting cancelled so car not used | 97.38 |
| Accommodation - cancelled due to meeting being called off after cancelation policy date | 412.00 |
| Accommodation - cancelled due to ill health | 156.00 |
| Supplier invoice - on site visit had to be aborted costs still payable | 545.00 |
| Supplier invoice - Locksmith required as keys locked in the car | 205.00 |
| Rail ticket - unused due to meeting/course being cancelled | 148.49 |
| 1 day car hire - unable to travel due to illness | 43.00 |
| Accommodation not required 2nd night - too late to cancel | 136.00 |
| Rail ticket - travel had to be cancelled, ticket refunded but cancellation costs incurred | 20.00 |
| Charges incurred for hotel no show/cancellation | 576.30 |
| Rail ticket - unable to travel due to feeling unwell | 154.04 |
| Accommodation not required as job finished early too late to cancel | 156.00 |
| Job cancelled last minute too late to stop payment due to cancellation policy | 756.59 |
| TOTALS | £3,405.80 |
- Itemisation of each loss and total cost 2019/20
| Meeting cancelled - unused rail ticket | 273.37 |
| Hotel booking had to be made direct but course cancelled no refund/cancellation policy | 98.00 |
| Job cancelled - passed cancellation policy | 1,075.00 |
| Illness - passed cancellation policy | 600.00 |
| Domestic medical emergency unable to travel - passed cancellation policy | 91.00 |
| Course cancelled - passed cancellation policy or cancellation policy in place | 199.98 |
| Charges incurred for hotel non payers | 156.75 |
| Charges incurred for hotel no shows - HRG MI information | 378.00 |
| Hotel cancelled due to COVID -19 Pandemic | 131.18 |
| Rail ticket cancelled due to COVID- 19 Pandemic | 164.75 |
| TOTALS | £3,168.03 |
- Itemisation of each loss and total cost 2020/21
| Farnborough Air Show 2020 - Stand loss due to COVID-19 | 2,235.00 |
| Charges incurred for hotel no shows | 158.00 |
| Course cancelled - Group deposit for hotel paid - passed cancellation policy | 622.18 |
| Hotel cancelled late due to COVID-19 charges incurred | 148.00 |
| Aborted site visits due to power outage | 1,698.00 |
| Rail travel cancelled due to COVID-19 | 40.27 |
| Cost incurred for hotel non payers | 590.03 |
| Aborted site visit - unable to complete repairs due to incorrect information | 588.43 |
| TOTALS | £6,079.91 |
- Total number and cost of special payments in 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21
| Total number of special payments 2018/19 | Total cost of special payments 2018/19 | Total number of special payments 2019/20 | Total cost of special payments 2019/20 | Total number of special payments 2020/21 | Total cost of special payments 2020/21 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Itemisation of each loss and total cost 2019/19, 2019/20, 2020/21
Nil
If you are not satisfied with this response or you wish to complain about any aspect of the handling of your request, then you should contact me in the first instance. If informal resolution is not possible and you are still dissatisfied then you may apply for an independent internal review by contacting the Information Rights Compliance team, Ground Floor, MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB or by e-mailing CIO-FOI-IR@mod.uk). Please note that any request for an internal review must be made within 40 working days of the date on which the attempt to reach informal resolution has ended.
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Regards
DECA FOI