FOI request (FOI-77604553)

I am writing to obtain information about your organisation’s spending on paper for printing and tablets in 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18.

Please include the following information:

• What was the total cost of paper used for printing in each of 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18?
• What was total cost of buying tablets in each of 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18?

Please include spending on tablets for both permanent staff and elected officials.

If you are unable to answer one of the questions, please continue and answer the subsequent ones.

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding, we have installed a new Freedom of Information system and have experienced a few problems.

The information you have requested is unfortunately not broken down into this much detail on our system.  We would need to manually search through invoices over the past 3 years which would far exceed the time limit set out by the Information Commissioner therefore under S12 of the Freedom of information Act 2000 provides an exemption from the obligation to comply with a request for information if the estimated costs of complying with that request would exceed the prescribed appropriate limit.

We estimate that the costs of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit by a significant amount.

For this reason we feel unable to comply with this request.