FOI release

Request for information regarding organisational information and the GCA

Published 31 March 2025

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E: Enquiries@GroceriesCode.gov.uk
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Sent by email

26 March 2025

Freedom of Information Act: Request for information on Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) activities

Thank you for your email of 27 February 2025 regarding organisational information and the GCA. You asked:

Please provide the following information for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 financial years:

  • The total income your organisation received from the government in each year.

  • Your organisation’s total expenditure in each year.

  • Your organisation’s total staff headcount in each year.

  • The year in which your organisation was originally founded

General right of access to information held by public authorities

Under section 1(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the FOI Act”), anyone making a request for information to the GCA, as a public authority, is entitled to be informed in writing whether it holds that information, and if so, to be supplied with it.

The GCA holds the information you have requested.

However, section 21(1) of the FOI Act states, ‘Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under section 1 is exempt information.’

Section 21 is an absolute exemption, which means there is no requirement to carry out a public interest test if the requested information is exempt.

The information you have requested is publicly available in the GCA’s published Annual Report and Accounts. For ease of access, I have provided links to the relevant years’ annual reports below:

2022-2023.

2023-2024.

Appeals Procedure

If you wish to complain about the way in which your request for information has been handled, you may seek an internal review by writing, setting out the reasons you feel your request has not been dealt with effectively, to:

The FOI Review Co-ordinator
Groceries Code Adjudicator
7th Floor, 25 Cabot Square
London
E14 4QZ

Alternatively, you can email: enquiries@groceriescode.gov.uk.

We will aim to deal with your Internal Review request within 20 working days of receipt or, if that is not possible, advise you of a date when we expect to complete the review.

If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of the Internal Review, you then have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office. You can do this on the Information Commissioner’s Office website.

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