Freedom of information (FOI) releases from Herefordshire Council

This is a disclosure log of Herefordshire Council's responses to freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) requests that might be of wider public interest.

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  1. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please could you provide the following information for each of the financial years 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26:

    1. The total amount of money spent by the council on specialist child sexual exploitation (CSE) services or teams in each financial year.

    2. The number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff employed by the council specifically within specialist CSE services or teams in each financial year.

    3. As of 31 March 2026, does the council operate a dedicated specialist CSE service or team? If yes, please provide the name of the service or team.

    Please provide the information broken down by financial year where applicable.

    For the purposes of this request, please include specialist services or teams whose primary responsibility is supporting, assessing or working with children at risk of or experiencing child sexual exploitation.

    Where CSE provision sits within a broader child exploitation service, please include it where a specific CSE function or team exists.

    I am seeking aggregate figures only and am not requesting any personal data. If any part of this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit, please provide the information that can be supplied within the limit and advise which part of the request would exceed it.

    Published: 28 October 2026

  2. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would be grateful if you could provide the following information relating to the Council's street cleansing fleet and operations:

    A list of all road sweepers owned or leased by the Council with a GVW of under 4 tonnes, including make and model.

    For leased sweepers, the lease starts and end dates (month and year only).

    For owned sweepers:

    Year purchased.

    Planned replacement date or details of any fleet renewal programme.

    Confirm whether street cleansing services are carried out in-house or by a contractor. If contracted out, provide the name of the contractor.

    Published: 28 October 2026

  3. I would like to ask the following: How many tonnes of food waste has your council collected in

    2021,

    2022,

    2023,

    2024,

    2025 and

    2026?

    Please can yearly figures be broken down by month. If monthly figures are not easily available, yearly totals would be fine. If your council only began collecting food waste recently, for example as part of the government's Simpler Recycling changes, please provide figures from when collections started. If possible, please provide this in a spreadsheet format (Excel or CSV).

    Published: 28 October 2026

  4. From 1st June 2024 - 30th June 2026 (broken down by month and year by year if possible please):

    How many reports did your council receive of home improvement traders breaching consumer protection law.

    If possible, please break the data down by type of home improvement trader e.g. builder, decorator, plumber OR type of work they were carrying out.

    Published: 27 October 2026

  5. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request information regarding commissioned services from community pharmacies. I would like to know:

    1. The name of any services commissioned from community pharmacies by Herefordshire Council, outside of the NHS-negotiated Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework

    2. The number of pharmacies which have signed up to provide each service

    3. The payment mechanism and payment rates for each service, including whether payment is made through a block contract, fixed retainer, fee per activity/intervention, or another arrangement. Where applicable, please provide the individual fees or rates payable

    4. The total spending (including fixed retainers and activity-based payments) for each service for the last full financial year in which it is available. If the service is provided under a block contract, please provide the annual contract value for the most recent financial year available

    5. The start and finish date of the contract I'd be most grateful if you could provide your response in Excel or CSV format. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you wish to clarify my request.

    Published: 27 October 2026

  6. I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act. Please provide the following information regarding pest control and extermination services handled by or on behalf of the Council:

    1. Annual Extermination / Treatment Volume For each of the last five financial years (2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26), please provide the total number of pest control treatments, exterminations, or call-outs carried out by the Council (or its contracted pest control provider).

    2. Breakdown by Pest Type For each year listed above, please provide a breakdown of these figures by pest type (e.g., rats, mice, bedbugs, wasps, cockroaches, squirrels, or other pests).

    Published: 27 October 2026

  7. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please could you tell me:

    1. Whether Herefordshire Council has any policy, list or instruction that prohibits or restricts the purchase or use of CCTV or camera equipment from specific manufacturers or providers.

    2. If so, which manufacturers or providers are affected. A reply by email is fine.

    Published: 27 October 2026

  8. I am writing to you to ask for information under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 relating to the pressures being placed upon sewage and water infrastructure in England and Wales from new development in your area.

    Please can you provide a list of:

    a) any new housing developments in your authority area, where a sewerage undertaker and/or water company has objected to connection of the development to the foul sewer in the planning process, from the last three years (May 2023 - May 2026)

    b) for each site, please provide the following information:

    * i) the location of the site (address, easting/northing, or National Grid Reference)

    * ii) the number of dwellings being proposed

    * ii) planning application reference

    * iv) links to documents or copies of the documents containing the details of the objection e.g. planning committee report

    * v) if a planning condition requiring a strategic foul water strategy to be submitted to the local Planning Authority has been applied (Yes/No)

    Please can the information be provided as an excel format.

    I am seeking recorded information held by the authority. While individual planning files may be available on a public planning portal, locating and compiling all relevant cases would require a manual search across potentially thousands of records.

    Therefore, section 21 (information reasonably accessible by other means) would not provide equivalent access to the information requested if the authority holds records, reports, databases, registers or searches capable of identifying such cases.

    Under Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, public authorities have a duty to provide advice and assistance. If any part of this request is unclear or too broad, I would be grateful if you could advise how it might be refined so that the information can be provided.

    Published: 26 October 2026

  9. 1. In each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, how many pest-related complaints, reports or service requests did the council receive, broken down by pest type: rats; mice; bedbugs; cockroaches; wasps; fleas; ants; other? If you do not record by pest type, please give the total.

    2. In each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, how many pest control treatments or callouts at residents' homes did the council carry out, or arrange through a contractor?

    3. In each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, how many fly-tipping incidents did the council record?

    4. As at the date of your response:

    (a) does the council offer a pest control service to residents for their homes (yes/no), and if it has been withdrawn or reduced since 2015, in which year?

    (b) is the service delivered in-house or by a contractor, and if so, which?

    (c) what is the standard charge to a resident for a rat treatment, and for a bedbug treatment, including VAT?

    (d) which residents, if any, qualify for free or discounted treatment?

    (e) the web address of your pest control page.

    Clarification: Question 1 covers all pest-related complaints, reports and service requests the council received about domestic premises (people's homes), whether from owners or tenants - for example reports of rats, mice, bedbugs, cockroaches, wasps, fleas or ants dealt with by environmental health or by any pest control service the council runs or arranges. Relevant legislation would include the Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949, but I am not limiting the question to any particular statute. If you also hold figures for commercial premises, please give them separately. Questions 2 to 4 are unchanged.

    Published: 23 October 2026

  10. Please provide the following figures under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

    Who to count These definitions follow your Client Level Data (CLD) return to NHS England, so the figures should come straight from your CLD records.

    - People: adults aged 18 to 64 on 31 March 2026 receiving long-term support arranged or funded, in whole or in part, by the council on that date, each counted once.

    Please exclude short-term support, respite and temporary care home stays.

    - Setting (CLD service component): residential care ("Long term residential care"), nursing care ("Long term nursing care") and supported living ("Community supported living", not extra care housing).

    - Outside the area: the postcode of the person's normal place of residence recorded for CLD lies outside your council's boundary.

    For a care home, this is the home's postcode; for supported living, the tenancy address.

    - Primary support reason: as recorded for CLD.

    Question 1: all adults aged 18 to 64

    1a. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    1b. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    1c. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    1d. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    Question 2: the same adults, by primary support reason Learning disability support

    2a. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2b. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2c. Supported living -

    total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2d. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Mental health support

    2e. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2f. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2g. Supported living -

    total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2h. All three settings -

    total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Physical or sensory support

    2i. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2j. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2k. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2l. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    All other reasons, or not recorded

    2m. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2n. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2o. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2p. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Question 3: the same adults with a recorded autism diagnosis (CLD autism field "Yes") If the council does not record autism diagnosis,please say so.

    3a. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    3b. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    3c. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    3d. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Small numbers The totals matter most. If you need to withhold small numbers, please withhold figures in Questions 2 and 3 first, and keep the "All three settings" lines wherever possible. Please show withheld figures as, for example, "<5" with your threshold, and true zeros as 0. A band such as "1-4" is fine. If this would exceed the cost limit Please answer Question 1, then Question 2, then Question 3, and tell me which parts you could not answer, rather than refusing the whole request. Format Filling in the lines above in your reply is equally fine. If you use a different date or definition, please say which.

    Published: 23 October 2026