external reviews

Summary

The requester asked for details on external reviews, benchmarking, and future plans for the Office of the Clerk of Tynwald over the last six financial years. The authority responded that no such external reviews were conducted and there are currently no plans for future reviews, resulting in an 'Information not held' outcome.

Key Facts

• No formal or informal external reviews of the Office of the Clerk of Tynwald occurred in the most recent six financial years.
• There are currently no plans for external reviews of the office.
• The authority cannot provide information on which functions might be subject to future external reviews due to the lack of plans.
• The request was received on 29 December 2020 and the response was issued on 25 January 2021.
• The outcome of the request was classified as 'Information not held'.

Data Disclosed

• 2020-12-29
• 2021-01-25
• 1615874
• 6 financial years
• 01624 685500

Original Request

firstly what informal or formal external reviews including analysis, baselining or benchmarking of one or more parts of the Office of the Clerk of Tynwald (for example financial management, committees, Hansard transcription, HR, or research) either potential or progressed to any extent (for example, any officer of the Northern Ireland Assembly, anyone external via the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Westminster Foundation for Democracy, Cabinet Office OHR) were considered in the most recent 6 financial years, secondly what documents are available internally, thirdly what were the key conclusions and recommendations of any such documents and were they shared with all relevant employees, fourthly what information and documents are already available externally, fifthly what plans already exist for external reviews and sixthly if there were no external reviews what functions are most likely to be subject to external review in future?

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Full Response Text

Freedom of Information Co-Ordinator Office of the Clerk of Tynwald Legislative Buildings Douglas Isle of Man IM1 3PW Telephone: 01624 685500

Our ref: 1615874 25 January 2021

Dear ###

We write further to your request which was received on 29 December 2020 and which states:

"firstly what informal or formal external reviews including analysis, baselining or benchmarking of one or more parts of the Office of the Clerk of Tynwald (for example financial management, committees, Hansard transcription, HR, or research) either potential or progressed to any extent (for example, any officer of the Northern Ireland Assembly, anyone external via the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Westminster Foundation for Democracy, Cabinet Office OHR) were considered in the most recent 6 financial years, secondly what documents are available internally, thirdly what were the key conclusions and recommendations of any such documents and were they shared with all relevant employees, fourthly what information and documents are already available externally, fifthly what plans already exist for external reviews and sixthly if there were no external reviews what functions are most likely to be subject to external review in future?"

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the public authority does not hold or cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, find some of the information that you have requested.
There have been no external reviews of the Office of the Clerk of Tynwald formally or informally in the most recent six financial years. Currently there are no plans for external reviews and we are therefore unable to provide any information on what if any functions are likely to be subject to external review in future. Please quote the reference number 1615874 in any future communications.

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I will now close your request as of this date.

Yours sincerely