I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your Accounts Payable department:

1. Transactional invoice payment data for all trade suppliers, paid from April 1 2018 – March 31 2022 to include the following:
Mandatory Requirement:
Supplier name
Invoice date (date on invoice)
Date invoice was paid
Invoice gross value
Supplier invoice reference
For all invoices where the payment date is greater than 30 days after the invoice date.
Optional Requirement (please provide if available in the same report)
Invoice number (your system reference)
Date invoice was received (if recorded)

Please find attached information in relation to transactions over £500. We are unable to provide any information for spend under £500. There are 207, 205 lines of transactions and even looking at the lines at 1 second per line would be 60 hours of work. From a quick look through the report there are numerous instances of personal data which would need to be redacted out before release, which unfortunately there isn't any sort of pattern or standard format which they have been entered in as its a text field. We are uncertain how long this would take and not tried to estimate the time as 1 second per line would exceed the limit so have not explored this further. Therefore as it would be manifestly unreasonable to try and redact or extract information for under £500 spend we focused on supplying over £500 spend transactions. Section 12 of the Act, appropriate limit exemption, is being applied for those under £500.

Examples in the text field column:
• Shine Annual membership refund of £46.25 for [Name]
• [Name] Placement Volunteer Countryside Service - February 2022 expenses (food & Fuel)
• January 2022 Food and Fuel expenses for [Name], Placement Volunteer, Countryside Service
• Payment to [Name 1] as part of [Name 2] EOTAS Package - February 2022