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Credit-reference products used by PFC

Information Disclosed

Our Ref: NY10253

Date: 07/01/2026

Freedom of Information request reference number: NY10253

I write in connection with your request for information that was received by the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, Policing, Fire and Crime Directorate (PFC) on the 2nd January 2026

Request:

  1. Products used since 1 January 2022

Please confirm whether your organisation currently uses, or has used at any point since 1 January 2022, any of the following products:

Endole
Beauhurst
Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)
Creditsafe
Experian Business
Equifax Business
TransUnion (UK Commercial Data & Credit Risk)
Company Check (Creditsafe group)
DueDil / FullCircl
Artesian
GlobalDatabase
Bureau van Dijk – Orbis / Fame (Moody’s)
Plimsoll Analysis
Kompass
Crunchbase
PitchBook
S&P Capital IQ / Market Intelligence
Graydon UK
Red Flag Alert
The Data City


For each product used, please provide:

  1. Product name
  2. Whether it is currently in use (Yes/No)
  3. Main purpose(s) for which it is used

 

  1. Contract information

For each product identified above, please provide the following where held:

  1. Supplier / vendor name
  2. Contract reference number
  3. Contract start date
  4. Contract end date
  5. Next renewal or break date
  6. Contract value (annual or total)
  7. Procurement route used (e.g., CCS framework name and lot, tender, direct award)

If any commercial information is withheld under Section 43, please still provide the non-exempt data, including start date, end date, supplier name, and procurement route.

 

  1. Internal ownership

For each product currently in use, please provide:

  1. Job title (not the name) of the person responsible for the product
  2. The department or team that manages it

 

  1. Past products no longer used

Where a product listed above was used after 1 January 2022 but is no longer in use, please provide:

  1. Product name
  2. Contract start date
  3. Contract end date
  4. Contract value (annual or total)

 

Response:

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within the PFC.

 

Q1 – PFC do not use and haven’t used any of these products.

Q2 – Q4: Not applicable

 

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that the PFC’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.