FOI release

Information relating to GCA business contact details

Published 9 December 2020

7th Floor, The Cabot
25 Cabot Square
London E14 4QZ
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 215 6537
Email: [email protected]
www.gov.uk/gca

Sent by email 04 December 2020

Dear

Freedom of Information Act: Request for information on Groceries Code Adjudicator activities

Thank you for your email dated 18 November 2020 regarding the work of the Groceries Code Adjudicator. In your email you asked for the following information:

Could you please provide up to date Names, Job Titles, telephone numbers and email addresses for the following;

  • Chief Executive
  • Deputy Chief Executive
  • Ministers and Ministerial team (if applicable)
  • Chair
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Chief Digital Officer
  • Senior Information Risk Owner
  • Director of IT / ICT / IM&T / Digital / Information / Technology
  • Director / Head of Finance
  • Chief / Deputy Chief Operating Officer
  • Head of Cyber Security
  • Head / Director of People
  • Heads of change / Transformation / Improvement
  • Department Directors / Heads
  • Board members (if applicable)

Or the equivalent job titles in your organisation.

In addition if you have an up to date 2020 senior staff organisation or structure chart could you please forward a copy to me in either Excel or pdf format.

Duty to confirm or deny whether the GCA holds the information
Under section 1(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“FoIA”), anyone making a request for information to the GCA, as a public authority, is entitled to be informed in writing whether it holds that information, and if so, to be supplied with it. 

I confirm that the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) is a corporation sole, and accordingly the Adjudicator is the only employee of the GCA. The GCA is governed by the GCA Governance Board, which is composed of the Adjudicator, the GCA Head of Operations and Policy, and an independent member. Details of the Adjudicator and the GCA Governance Board members are included in the table below:

Name Job Title Telephone number Email Address
Mark White Groceries Code Adjudicator 0207 215 6537 [email protected]
Alice Ellison GCA Head of Operations 0207 215 6537 [email protected]
BEIS representative GCA Governance Board independent member 0207 215 6537 [email protected]

As the Adjudicator is only employee of the GCA, we do not have a structure chart or equivalent.

Appeals Procedure
If you wish to complain about the way in which your request for information has been handled, you may seek an internal review by writing, setting out the reasons you feel your request has not been dealt with effectively, to:

The FOI Review Co-ordinator
Groceries Code Adjudicator
7th Floor
25 Cabot Square
London E14 4QZ

Alternatively you can email: [email protected]

We will aim to deal with your Internal Review request within 20 working days of receipt or, if that is not possible, advise you of a date when we expect to complete the review. If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of the Internal Review you then have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioners Office. The contact address is:

Information Commissioners Office
FOI/EIR Complaints Resolution
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire. SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely,