FOI release

Council Spend on Servicing Debt each Financial Year 2020/21 - 2024/25

This request was refused in full, so we didn't provide the information the requester asked for. This may include information where we can neither confirm nor deny that we hold it.

Case reference FOI2026/01187

Received 14 May 2026

Published 29 May 2026

Request

I am getting back in touch regarding the Freedom of Information request I made on February 20th.

I am now making another request in follow to my previous question:

1) In pounds, how much money does the council spend on servicing debt each financial year?

Please provide figures for the following financial years:

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

2024-25

2) How much was the council liable to spend on servicing debt each financial year?

3) How much did the council actually spend on servicing debt each financial year?

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Please give answers in pounds.

Servicing debt refers to the entire sum owed on debt interest payments including both the GF and HRA.

Response

I am getting back in touch regarding the Freedom of Information request I made on February 20th.

I am now making another request in follow to my previous question:

1)  In pounds, how much money does the council spend on servicing debt each financial year?

Please provide figures for the following financial years:

2020-21
2021-22
2022-23
2023-24
2024-25

2)  How much was the council liable to spend on servicing debt each financial year?

3)  How much did the council actually spend on servicing debt each financial year?

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Please give answers in pounds.

Servicing debt refers to the entire sum owed on debt interest payments including both the GF and HRA.

 

Answer: This information is publically available on our council website and can be viewed via the following link:

 

https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/your-council/council-budgets-and-spending/

 

Please see the note “Income, expense, gains and losses” in the following documents:

 

Audited statement of accounts 2024/25 – page 83

Audited Statement of accounts 2023/24 – page 79

Audited financial statements 2022/23 – page 75

Statement of accounts 2021/22 – page 69

Statement of accounts 2020/21 – page 67

 

The Service Area have advised there is no difference between the amount the council was liable to pay and the amount actually paid.

 

As such we consider this information to be exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 because it is reasonably accessible to you via other means. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.

Documents

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