FOI release

Information relating to GCA losses and special payments in the periods 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21

Published 31 January 2022

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Sent by email 26 January 2022

Dear

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

Thank you for your email dated 20 January 2022 regarding losses and special payments in the periods 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 at the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA). In your email you asked for the following information:

  1. The total number of cases of losses in each year.
  2. The total cost of losses in each year.
  3. An itemisation of each loss including what it was for and how much it cost.
  4. The total number of special payments in each year.
  5. The total value of special payments in each year.
  6. An itemisation of each special payment including what it was for and how much it cost.

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 can confirm that the GCA has not made any losses or special payments in 2018-19, 2019-20 or 2020-21. Accordingly, responses to your questions are as follows (numbered to match the numbering in the request above):

  1. 2018-19: none; 2019-20: none; 2020-21: none.
  2. 2018-19: £0; 2019-20: £0; 2020-21: £0.
  3. N/A
  4. 2018-19: none; 2019-20: none; 2020-21: none.
  5. 2018-19: £0; 2019-20: £0; 2020-21: £0.
  6. N/A

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,

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