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Please could you provide the following in respect of each of your previous 3 full financial years:
1. Whether Is your organisation or any part of it is subscribed to Amazon Business?
2. Your annual turnover or operating budget.
3. Your total procurement spend (inc VAT), including via Purchase Order/Invoice, Purchasing/Procurement Card, and Direct Debit.
4. Your total procurement/purchasing spend (inc VAT) with Amazon, and its major subsidiaries, including Amazon Web Services.
5. How much of the total spend with Amazon and its major subsidiaries (detailed above) is for the purchase of vouchers for gifting/award or other purposes?
We are unable to answer this as we don’t hold this information centrally, it would exceed the appropriate limit of 18 hours to collate this information (section 12) and therefore we are refusing this request. We have been advised by our Finance department that they do not centrally hold this information and require contacting every department within the council.
The Councils contract register is available through the following link: https://procontract.due-north.com/ContractsRegister/Index?p=679bb2ba-7898-4a4c-b4e3-c8eb6a07a3dc&v=2 along with our transactions over £500: https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/council-and-meetings/open-data-and-transparency/data-sets-and-open-data?field_media_asset_browser_target_id=101 , and our Medium Term Financial Plan: https://wokingham.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s68577/Appendix%20A%20-%20Budget%20Startegic%20Overview%20MTFP%202024-27.pdf