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. Dog breeding licenses from 2017 - 2021

    Please provide answers (to the following 4 questions) in any format that is easiest for you.

     

    If you do not record this information, please state entry as ‘N/A’. If you record this information, and the answer is zero, please state ‘0’.

     

    Questions regarding all dog breeding licenses, per year from 2017 - 2021:

     

    1.    Total number of licensed dog breeding establishments within the local authority, per year from 2017 – 2021.

     

    2.    Total number of licensed dog breeding establishments with quarantine/isolation facilities, per year from 2017 – 2021.

     

    Questions regarding each dog breeding licensed establishment, for 2021 only:

     

    3.    The number, breed and age of all breeding bitches, in each dog breeding licensed establishment (in 2021).

     

    4.    Breed(s) of male stud(s)/father(s), if different to mother’s breed (in 2021).

     

             

    Published: 8 July 2024

  2. Section 106 Planning Obligations

    I would like to request the number of a) breaches and b) re-negotiations of Section 106 planning obligations (as laid out in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) in this local authority from the beginning of 2010 to the present day, or as recent as the data goes. This can be in either a yearly or quarterly format.

    * I would like also data on how many of these a) breaches and b) renegotiations referred to affordable housing obligations in the same time period.

    * I would also like data on how many enforcements of planning obligations this local authority carried out in the same time period.

    Published: 5 July 2024

  3. Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund 2024 to 2025

    FOI Request:

    1. Please provide a copy of the document or documents submitted to the DHSC as outlined in condition 3 of the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund 2024 to 2025 Guidance as per the below: “Condition 3: As set out in the grant determination, the initial 2024 to 2025 report must be submitted by 11:59pm on 22 May 2024 and must include:

    • confirmation that the local authority has allocated its share of the grant in full to adult social care, in line with condition 1

    • confirmation that the local authority has used its share of the £162 million Fair Cost of Care component of the fund to maintain fee uplifts originally made as part of the 2022 to 2023 Market Sustainability and Fair Cost of Care Fund

    • confirmation of which of the 3 target areas the local authority will seek further improvements in (local authorities must select at least one), alongside planned spend on each

    • reporting against all the required metrics set out in the ‘Activities and metrics’ section of this guidance* * The initial 2024 to 2025 report (May 2024) must include the following metrics:

    • final average external provider local authority fee rate in 2023 to 2024

    • average provisional external provider local authority fee rate in 2024 to 2025

    • free text to provide additional context on the report if required”

    Published: 5 July 2024

  4. Home Working Policy, and Senior Management stats for March to May 2024

    RE: Work from home WI/2279

    CLARIFICATION: We require the 20 in your Senior Management Team please from your website.

    1. Please provide any policy for council staff on home working.

    2. Please provide the total number of days, in the past 3 months (march to may), in which the senior management (20 highest earning) attended a meeting in Herefordshire County in person on a given day. For example, if at least one in-person meeting was attended in a day, this is recorded as one day.

    3. Provide the number of days annual leave or other absence in the same period for all of the same staff.

    4. Please provide the total cost claimed for travel or mileage for these people in the past 2 years split by financial years, 2022/23 and 2023/24.

    5. For each of the financial years 2019/20 to 2023/24 the number of appointments into these top 18 roles following the exit of the previous holder of the position (even where job titles change) including interim and agency roles.

    Published: 4 July 2024

  5. Administration staff responsible for HMO licensing

    I am contacting you to request some information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. To help you with this request I will outline my query as specifically as possible:-

    1. How many administration staff members within the authority are responsible for HMO licensing in the 3 schemes - Mandatory, Selective and Additional licensing?

    2. How many days per week are spent on admin for the above three licensing schemes?

    I am not requesting any personal details of individual staff, just the number of admin staff that have responsibilities in these particular HMO licensing schemes.

    Published: 3 July 2024

  6. Children who went missing from children’s residential care

    1) The number of children who went missing from children’s residential care ran by the local authority in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Can the data be categorised in calendar years please.

    2) The number of those children given in the response to question 1) who were deemed at risk of criminal exploitation in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Can the data be categorised in calendar years please.

    3) The youngest age of a child who went missing from residential care ran by the local authority in 2023, how long they were missing and their gender.

    4) The longest amount of time a child was missing from residential care ran by the local authority in 2023, their age and gender.

    Published: 3 July 2024

  7. Edgar Street Athletic Ground

    I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

    1)    In each tax year since 2014/15, how much income has been generated for the council by telecommunications companies with equipment on the floodlight pylons at Edgar Street Athletic Ground?                         

     

    2)    In each tax year since 2014/15, has there been any expenditure on the Blackfriars End at Edgar Street Athletic Ground in terms of maintenance, work required under health and safety law etc. Please do not include any figures for redevelopment plans.

      

    3)    In each tax year since 2014/15, how much money has been spent on drawing up plans for the development of the Blackfriars End at Edgar Street Athletic Ground? Please provide separate figures for the Edgar Street grid plans from before 2020 under the previous administration and the latest plans currently being drawn up for student accommodation/key worker housing.

     

         

    Published: 2 July 2024

  8. Costs to drop the curbs on Westfaling Street and Barrie Road in Hereford

    How much did the programme of works cost to drop the curbs on Westfaling Street and Barrie Road in Hereford?

    Published: 1 July 2024

  9. Complex care for adults

    I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:

    • How many individuals do the local authority/NHS commission with Adults complex care using Live-in care at home (24-hour care with the carer staying in the property)?

    • How many providers do the local authority/NHS work with for Adult complex care at home and how many of those providers have clinical leads?

    • What is the commissioned rate for Adult complex care at home for 2023?

    • Is there a separate framework for complex care at home and if so is it open?

    • What is the name of the commissioner for complex care for adults?

    Published: 1 July 2024

  10. Council Expenditure

    Staff cost *for analysis* For each of the financial years 2019/20 to 2023/24 please provide: The gross pay bill for all council employees including temporary, agency and interim employees working directly for the council. The gross pay bill for the top 18 highest earning members of staff including temporary, agency or interim employees. The gross pay bill for the Chief Executive. The gross cost to the council for any interim or consultancy appointments externally provided by an executive or recruitment agency. The gross cost to the council for the top 10 highest earning interim or consultant appointments externally provided by a executive / recruitment agency. The overall expenditure of the council excluding capital. The overall income of the council excluding borrowing.

    Published: 28 June 2024