- FoI Number
- 2024-542
- Subject
- Fair Trade Purchasing
- Date Received
- 29/11/2024
- Request and Response
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- Can you kindly provide data on your organisation’s annual spend on fair trade goods across the April 2023 – March 2024 financial year?
Please include the below information, and please return the data in the attached template:
• Vendor name
• Whether they were contracted/non-contracted
• A description of item(s) purchased
• The total value per order
• Items purchased for resale (if applicable)
In accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested as NHS Shetland does not track fair trade expenditure.
- Please also provide your general policy on the procurement of fairly and ethically traded goods and services, in line with section 15(5)(b)(v) of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014., if it is hosted online, please kindly share the link.
I am aware that, given potential limitations, you may only be able to capture spend where purchasers have specifically used such terms as “fair” and “trade”, “fairtrade” or “fairly” and “traded” in their requisitions, and so items where buyers have used catalogue item numbers will not be reflected in the data. These considerations will be acknowledged in the report.
In accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 25(1) as the information requested is accessible without submitting a request under FOISA s 1(1). The information you have requested is available here:
NHS Shetland Procurement Strategy 2020-2025
6.1.11 Embedding Fair and Ethical Trading
