FOI release

Information relating to grants and loans made to charities and third sector organisations in the periods 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21

Published 18 February 2022

7th Floor, The Cabot
25 Cabot Square
London E14 4QZ
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 215 6537
Email: Enquiries@GroceriesCode.gov.uk
www.gov.uk/gca

Sent by email 10 February 2022

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

Thank you for your email dated 1 February 2022 regarding payments made by the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) to charities and third sector organisations. In your email you asked for the following information:

Please provide the following information for 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:

  1. The value of grants made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all grants separately.
  2. The value of loans made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all loans separately.

The payments made to charities and third sector organisations relate to the following only:

  • Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)
  • Independent Sage
  • NHS Confederation
  • Keep our NHS public
  • SOS NHS
  • Care and Support Workers Organise
  • UNITED VOICES OF THE WORLD
  • Health Campaigns Together
  • Doctors for the NHS
  • We Own It
  • The People’s Assembly
  • Zero Covid Coalition
  • Health Campaign Together
  • Docs Not Cops
  • British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
  • Association of Pakistani Physicians of Northern Europe
  • Royal College of General Practitioners
  • Royal College of Ophthalmology
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Duty to confirm or deny whether the GCA holds the information

Under section 1(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, 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.

I can confirm that the GCA has not made any grant or loan payments in 2018-19, 2019-20 or 2020-21 to any of the organisations that you list in your request.

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 Commissioners Office. The contact address is:

Information Commissioners Office
FOI/EIR Complaints Resolution
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely,