Payroll and HR operations

Please can you send me the following information for you organisation: 

No of employees, full time and part time, Payroll Supplier, Payroll product used, Payroll contract renewal date, Length of payroll contract, Who has responsibility for the payroll solution, Cost of Payroll Solution, HR supplier, HR product used, HR contract renewal date, Length of HR contract, Who has responsibility for the HR solution, Cost of HR solution.

Thank you for your e-mail dated 9^th August 2010. I am pleased to provide you with the following information in relation to your request. Please be aware that not all the relevant information Ordnance Survey holds has been provided within this response, as parts of it fall within the Information Accessible by other means exemption under section 21 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), as we further explain below.

No of employees, full time and part time -  Full time 1073, part time 113

Payroll Supplier - Logica

Payroll product used - epayfact

Payroll contract renewal date - 2013

Length of payroll contract – 5 years initially, with a 5 year renewal

Who has responsibility for the payroll solution – Elaine Grigg, HR Project & Technical Manager.

Cost of Payroll Solution – As specified above, this information is exempt under section 21 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) as it is ‘Information Accessible to applicant by other means’.

This information is available to you on the Communities and Local Government (CLG) website. CLG is fully committed to the Government's transparency agenda, and in support has published data confirming the central Department's expenditure (including Ordnance Survey) with suppliers for year 6 April 2009 to 5 April 2010.

The link below will take you to the Ordnance Survey information, and those entries detailed under CMG (UK) Ltd (excel spreadsheet lines 1716-1730) are those which detail the costs of Ordnance Surveys payroll solution for the financial year 2009-2010:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/xls/1685050.csv

HR supplier – In house

HR product used – Oracle software

HR contract renewal date – N/A (in house)

Length of HR contract – N/A (in house)

Who has responsibility for the HR solution – Elaine Grigg, HR Project & Technical Manager

Cost of HR solution’ – N/A (in house)

To the extent that the Public interest test applies (section 17 FOIA), we have determined that in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest is not applicable, as all the information has been released to you, or is available to you by other means.

Please note that your enquiry has been processed to Freedom of Information guidelines. If you are unhappy with our response, you may raise an appeal to our Appeals Officer at:

Complaints Team

Customer Service Centre

Ordnance Survey

Romsey Road

SOUTHAMPTON

SO16 4GU

Please include the reference number below. The Appeals Officer will ensure that the process has been followed correctly, questioning any decisions taken regarding the original response and recommending disclosure of additional information if appropriate.

Thank you for your enquiry.

Reference number: FOI1090/August 2010