Esafety contractors and consultants.
Dear eSafety Commissioner,
I am Submitting an FOI request as I am seeking information on the breakdown of APS staff to contractors and consultants employed by the E-safety commissioner.
I am also seeking information concerning the total dollar amount spent on consultants and contractors (i.e. Individuals not employed under the PS Act) for the last financial year 2021-22.
I am not seeking information regarding individuals' salaries or hourly rates—just the collective total.
Yours faithfully,
Scott p
Dear Scott,
Thank you for your email.
The right of access under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) is to existing documents, rather than to information. The FOI Act does not require eSafety to create a new document in response to a request for access, except in limited circumstances where the applicant seeks access in a different format or where the information is stored in an agency computer system rather than in discrete form.
The information you have requested is not in the form of a document and if produced from our internal systems would not capture the information you seek in a digestible manner.
Instead, we seek your consent to process your request as an Administrative Access Request. Administrative access means the release of government information in response to a specific request, outside the processes in the FOI Act. Administrative access may be most readily used for release of statistics or data relating to an agency’s key functions and activities.
As the information you are seeking is data rather than documents as described in the Freedom of Information Act, eSafety would be able to better process the request as an administrative access request.
If you still wish to treat the request as an FOI we must note that there may be grounds for practical refusal of the request as you are not seeking documents, rather data which may not exist in the form requested.
eSafety will process the administrative access request within the 30 day timeframe usually given under the FOI Act. Therefore you may expect a response on or before 5 December 2022.
Please note some of the information requested is already publicly available in eSafety’s Annual Report 2021-22 at Appendix 13.
If you agree to treat the request as an administrative access request, we will need your written confirmation of this, and withdrawal of your FOI request.
Please advise us by email whether you agree to the treatment of the request as an administrative access request by eSafety and the withdrawal of your FOI request.
Kind Regards,
FOI Coordinator
Dear Scott,
See the attached correspondence from the FOI Coordinator.
Kind Regards,
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