External Providers of Homecare and Supported Living - Freedom of information requests

Title or Description: External Providers of Homecare and Supported Living
FOI Number: 15224
Date Received: 18/05/2021
Type of Request: FOI
Request or Question: I am making this freedom of information request to ask about fee rates which are being paid to external providers of Homecare and Supported Living within the local authority. I hope it will be possible to get answers to the following questions. * What hourly rate (£ per hour) does your council currently (financial year 2020/2021) pay to external providers of:1. Homecare Services2. Supported Living Services
Response: We consider this information to be commercially sensitive and especially so as there is only one contractor and therefore we rely on S33(1)(b) to withhold this information. We have considered the public interest test and it will always be in the public interest for the Council to obtain best value and by disclosing this information would prejudice this.