Physical post sent by SSAC: SSAC FOI response
Updated 11 February 2021
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1. Information request
Please can I kindly request the following information under freedom of information act.
1. Do you send physical post by the likes of Royal Mail, Whistl or UK Mail?
2. What was the number of envelopes sent in 2019?
3. Do you process the work in-house or is it outsourced to a specialist provider?
4. If above is a specialist provider please answer the following sub questions;
- annual value of the contract
- contract term
- renewal date
- framework or direct award
2. Response
The committee holds some of the information you have requested.
The Social Security Advisory Committee is a statutory independent non-departmental public body. It is sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions who provides our postal services.
The committee occasionally sends post of the nature you describe, but we do not collect data on volume.