Please provide the following information about your procurement of any
i. external Data Protection Officer (DPO),
ii. Data protection GDPR compliance services for the period FY2022-23 to FY2024-25:

Current DPO arrangements
1. Is the organisation’s DPO and other staff that work on data protection compliance:
a) An internal employee: Yes
b) A DPO provided by an external service provider: No
c) Hybrid (internal staff with external service provider support): No

2. Where services are provided by external providers, please share the following information:
a) The Company name(s)
b) Annual spend by your organisation (FY2022/2023 through to FY2024/2025)
c) The highest day rate paid
d) Contract dates (start/end/renewal terms)
e) A brief description of the project or services provided (for instance, project title or internal reference)
f) Services covered (e.g., audits, breach management, SAR management, delivery of DPIAs)
- Please indicate what deliverables were produced
- Procurement method (e.g., open competition, framework agreement, direct award) and name of the procurement framework, if applicable.
Not applicable.

Consultancy Spend
3. What is the organisation’s, total annual expenditure on data protection/GDPR consultancy services?
£0

4. For SoW/projects which have a spend of more than £5k), please share the following information:
- Supplier company name
- The scope of the Project (e.g., 'ICO investigation support', DPIA support, Internal Audit recommendation support)
- Spend
- Procurement method
No information held.

Data Protection Compliance staffing
5.
a) The Number of in-house data protection staff in the organisation? (FTE): The Council has 2 FTE who deal with Information Governance matters, which includes FOI, EIR, Subject access, breaches, and other data protection matters.
b) Are there any vacant roles: No

6. Where there any ICO investigations, audits, or enforcement actions for the period from FY2022/2023 to FY 2024/2025?
No Audits or Enforcement Actions during this period.
The Council had contact with and from the ICO on various matters, and have had decision notices on items such as FOI and Subject Access. These could be considered as investigations depending on the definition being used.

Future Plans
7. Is your organisation planning to put out to tender for any DPO/GDPR services in the current financial year: No.
a) If yes please provide the following:
Expected timeline
Budget range
Key service requirements
Procurement method
Not applicable.