FOI Ref: FOI/2022/4023
You asked
Please supply the following information:
Copies of any business process, manual, procedure or policy concerning document redaction in your organization.
If recorded, please indicate the FTE (staff time) spent on document redaction by your organization per year. I am only interested in the most recent figure for this.
If recorded, please provide the expenditure on document redaction per year. Again, I am only interested in the most recent figure for this.
If recorded, please provide any estimates on how much document redaction is undertaken by your organization (e.g., number of documents / pages of material).
Please indicate any software currently used for document redaction (e.g., Adobe Acrobat Pro).
Do you use specialist staff who have undergone specific training to undertake document redaction? If so, please indicate the specific training and/or qualifications for these staff.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We do not hold the information you have requested about document redactions for questions 1, 2 and 4.
For question 3, please see the below for spending on Adobe products:
Digital Technology Services (DST)
2021/22 - £20,703.84
2022/23 - £24,473.47
Spend outside of DST
2021/22 - £1,751.96
2022/23 - £3,467.93
Total ONS spend (including DST spend):
2021/22 - £22,455.80
2022/23 - £27,941.40
The software we currently use for redactions is Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.
Staff have not undergone specific training for document redaction. However, members of staff responsible for redactions are qualified FOI and GDPR practitioners.