Request
I wish to submit a request for some of the organisation’s information around the internal plans and strategy documents around ICT.
The ICT documents I require are the most recent update (2021 onwards documents)
I wish to obtain the following documents:
1. ICT/IM&T/IS Strategy – The IT department strategy or plans, highlights their current and future objectives.
2. ICT Org Chart – A visual document that presents the structure of the IT department, please include name and job titles. If this cannot be sent, please work towards a structure with job titles.
3. ICT Annual or Business Plan – Like the ICT strategy but is more annually focused.
4. ICT Capital Programme/budget – A document that shows financials budget on current and future projects.
If some of these documents are not valid, please state when the 2021 onwards ICT documents are planned to be published.
Outcome
Some information provided.
Response
1. ICT/IM&T/IS Strategy – The IT department strategy or plans, highlights their current and future objectives.
Please see attachment A, which contains the current IT Strategic Plan and annual business objectives.
Disclosing details about our systems and plans may reveal information that would prejudice the prevention or detection of crime and is exempt under section 31 (1) (a) of the FOI Act and, therefore, some information contained in the IT Strategy document has been redacted.
2. ICT Org Chart – A visual document that presents the structure of the IT department, please include name and job titles. If this cannot be sent, please work towards a structure with job titles.
We are unable to provide you with this information because it would identify junior members of staff and as such is exempt from release under section 40(2) of the FOI Act.
It is standard practice to withhold the names of officials below Senior Civil Service level. However, to aid transparency of how our organisation is structured and run, TNA publishes the names of senior staff members (down to the level of Heads of Department) on our website. TNA’s organisational chart can be found here on our website.
We do not hold a document of the current IT organisation with only job titles.
3. ICT Annual or Business Plan – Like the ICT strategy but is more annually focused.
Annual objectives and plans are contained in the attached Strategic Plan (attachment A).
4. ICT Capital Programme/budget – A document that shows financials budget on current and future projects. If some of these documents are not valid, please state when the 2021 onwards ICT documents are planned to be published.
2022-23 financial year and future IT capital budget documents are not yet available.
The Annual report and accounts 2020-21 is available at this link Annual report and accounts 2020-21 highlights – Archives Inspire the world (nationalarchives.gov.uk). The 2021-22 financial year accounts will be published shortly, more information on our publishing cycle can be found at this link Annual report and accounts – The National Archives.