Dear Mr Kelly,

Freedom of Information Request reference number FOI 267

We write further to the Court of Appeal judgment in Department for Work and Pensions v Information Commissioner & Frank Zola, to which your case was joined. The judgment was handed down on Wednesday 27 July 2016.

The Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the First-tier Tribunal in Department of Work and Pensions v Information Commissioner & Frank Zola [2013].

We write, in light of the judgment, in response to your Freedom of Information request of 2012.

In your request you asked for:

“the names of all organizations who have provided work boost placements, work experience, or other unpaid work activity to customers of within Contract Package Area 4 (East London) within the past 12 months. In cases where a subcontractor to Seetec was involved, please note which subcontractor or subcontractors were involved with each organization.”.

Contract Package Area 4 (East London) is a Contract Package Area. Three providers deliver the Work Programme in Contract Package Area 4 (East London): Peopleplus, and Seetec. You asked for the organisations that provided work placements to Seetec.

DWP contracts with prime providers, such as Seetec, to source organisations who delivered the Work Programme. Some of these providers may have sent claimants on work experience placements. DWP does not contract directly with these work experience placement hosts. We have enclosed all the information we were given by Seetec in relation to your request.

A copy of this letter has also been sent to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

If you have any queries about this letter please contact us quoting the reference number above.

Your right to complain under the Freedom of Information Act

If you are not happy with this response you may request an internal review by e- mailing [email protected] or by writing to DWP, Central FoI Team, Caxton House, Tothill Street, SW1H 9NA. Any review request should be submitted within two months of the date of this letter.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office for a decision. Generally the Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted our own complaints procedure. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF www.ico.gov.uk