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. Bridge conditions and maintenance for the financial year 2022/2023

    I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act. Please see the following set of questions.

    The definition of a "road bridge" in the 'Well-Managed Highway Infrastructure A Code of Practice' is a structure with a span of 1.5m or more providing public highway passage for motor vehicles over an obstacle such as a watercourse, railway, road or valley.

    Using this definition, please provide the following information for all road bridges for which you own as highway authority, including those which are jointly owned with another authority, but for which you are the lead authority.

    These questions all relate to the financial year 2022/2023.

    1. How many road bridges are you responsible for maintaining?

    2. For the last financial year 2022/23:

    (i) How many Principal Inspections have taken place in that year?

    (ii) How many Principal Inspections did you plan to do in that year?

    3. For the last financial year 2022/23:

    (i) How many General Inspections have taken place in that year?

    (ii) How many General Inspections did you plan to do in that year?

    4. For the last financial year 2022/23 how many Structural Reviews did you undertake?

    5. How many substandard bridges do you have (in terms of ability to carry 44t vehicles)?

    Please exclude bridges that have weight restrictions for environmental reasons.

    6. Of these substandard bridges, how many do you intend to return or upgrade to full load carrying capacity in the next 5 years?

    7. How many bridges would you return to full load carrying capacity if you had no resource restrictions?

    8. (i) How many post-tensioned bridges do you have?

    (ii) How many of those have had PTSIs within the last 18 years?

    (iii) Of those that have not had a PTSI, how many require/are due one?

    (iv) How much funding would you anticipate is required to remove the backlog of PTSIs for those bridges identified in Q8(iii)?

    9. In monetary terms, what is the current Depreciation (i.e. difference between your GRC and DRC for 2022/23?

    10. What is the calculated value of your workbank? (Workbank is defined as the total value of condition-based maintenance work that has been identified and can be calculated using SAVI or by other means)

    11. (i) What is the annual revenue works expenditure for maintaining your bridge stock (excluding staff costs)?

    (ii) What is the annual capital works expenditure for maintaining your bridges stock?

    (iii) What total budget would you estimate is required to maintain the bridge stock at its current level (standstill budget)?

    12. For the last financial year: 2022/23:

    (i) How many of your bridges required a Stage 1 Scour Assessment?

    (ii) How many Stage 1 Scour Assessments did you undertake?

    13. For the last financial year: 2022/23:

    (i) How many of your bridges required a Stage 2 Scour Assessment?

    (ii) How many Stage 2 Scour Assessments did you undertake?

    14. (i) How many bridges under your management completely collapsed in 2022/23?

    (ii) How many bridges under your management partially collapsed in 2022/23?

    (iii) Would you be happy to share the detail with members of the UK Bridges Board? Y/N

    15. What was your Bridge Stock Condition Index (BSCI) at the end of 2022/23 (or current if easier)?

    16. What issues with managing your bridge stock causes you most concern?

    Published: 21 December 2023

  2. Number of people employed by Herefordshire Council as a Student Environmental Health Practitioner

    1. How many people have been employed by Herefordshire Council in the last 15

    year with the following job title:

    - Student environmental health practitioner.

    And of these how many are/were:

    - male

    -female (Miss/Mrs/Dr)

    2. How many people with the job title

    - Student environmental health practitioner are currently employed within the

    Environmental Health and Trading standards team and/or department and

    - how many have been employed within the last 15 years within the team/department.

    3. What is the correct email contact address for the job holder - student environmental health practitioner.

    4. Who is the line manager and/or supervisor for the post holder -student environmental health practitioner.

    Published: 21 December 2023

  3. community safety advertisement

    I have a mobile advertising vehicle which I intend to bring into your local area.

    Can you please:

    1. Advise whether there are any restrictions, permits or permission we would need to advertise in your borough.

    2. The name and contact details of the cabinet holder for community safety in the authority

    3. The local strategy to apply the serious violence duty per the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 ("the PCSC Act").

    4. The data that informs on the number of knife and gun crime incidents the borough had to address between March 2021 and March 2022.

    5. The data that informs on the number of knife and gun crime incidents the borough had to address between March 2022 and March 2023.

    Published: 20 December 2023

  4. Dropped kerb Applications

    I would like to put a freedom of information request in, I would like to know how many dropped kerb applications you've Had for Archenfield in Madley Hereford hr29ns, for the year 2023. How many have been authorised and how many declined.

    Published: 20 December 2023

  5. Number of staff disciplined in the last 5 financial years

    1. How many staff have been disciplined in any way (by this I mean any formal reprimand that would either be dismissal or some sort of record on that person's personnel file) because they breached your rules/guidelines in relation to multiple contract working?

    Please give figures for each of the last five financial years (2018/19)(2019/20)(2020/21)(2021/22) and (2022/23).

    2. In relation to the cases in 2022/23 how many of the people who were disciplined are allowed within their working conditions to work from home for some or all of their contracted hours?

    3. In relation to the cases in 2022/23 please state in broad terms the nature of the other job that the person may have been doing that was in breach of your rules/guidelines? Eg: Waiter, car cleaner etc......

    Published: 19 December 2023

  6. Data centre information

    This is a request for information that relates to the organisation's contracts around ICT contract(s) for Server Hardware Maintenance, Server Virtualisation Licenses and Maintenance and Storage Area Network (SAN) Maintenance/Support, which may include:

    • Server Hardware Maintenance- contracts relating to the support and maintenance of the organisation's physical servers.

    • Virtualisation Maintenance/Support/ Licensing (VMware, Solaris, Unix, Linux, Windows Server)

    • Storage Area Network Maintenance/Support (EMC, NetApp etc.)

    For each of the types of contract described above, please can you provide me with the following data. If there is more than one contract please split the information for each separate supplier this includes annual spend.

    1. Contract Title: Please provide me with the contract title.

    2. Type of Contracts (ABOVE): Please can you provide me with one or more contract types the contract relates to: Server Hardware, Virtualisation, SAN (Storage Area Network)

    3. Existing/Current Supplier: Please provide me with the supplier name for each contract.

    4. Brand: Please state the brand of hardware or software

    5. Operating System / Software (Platform): (Windows, Linux, Unix, Vsphere, AIX, Solaris etc.) Please state the operating system used by the organisation.

    6. Annual Average Spend: Please provide me with the most recent annual spend for this contract?

    7. Contract Duration: (Please can you also include notes if the contract includes any contract Extension periods.)

    8. Contract Expiry Date: Please can you provide me with the date of when the contract expires.

    9. Contract Review Date: (An approximate date of when the organisation is planning to review this particular contract.)

    10. Purchase of Servers: Could you please provide me with the month and year in which most/bulk of servers were purchased.

    11. Number of Physical Server: Please can you provide me with the number of physical servers.

    12. Number of Virtual Servers: Please can you provide me with the number of Virtual servers

    13. Brief Contract Description: I require a brief description of the service provided under this contract. Please do not just put maintenance. I need at least a sentence.

    14. Contract Owner: (The person from within the organisation that is responsible for reviewing and renewing this particular contract. Please include their full name, job title, direct contact number and direct email address.)

    Published: 19 December 2023

  7. Predicted funding gap

    I would like to send a freedom of information request asking:

    1) What is your current predicted funding gap by the end of this financial year

    2) What is your current predicted cumulative funding gap by the end of this financial year?

    Published: 18 December 2023

  8. Placements and spending for older person’s care home services

    Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information regarding placements and spending for older person's care home services. Please provide answers on the attached accompanying Excel spreadsheet.

    Please report all fees without Funded Nursing Contribution (FNC).

    1. Who within the Local Authority, has the commissioning responsibility for care home placements for older people (aged 65+)? Please provide their:

    a. Name

    b. Job title

    c. Telephone number

    d. Email address

    2. Please provide the gross total expenditure on older person's (age 65+) services for financial year 2022/23 (actual) and financial year 2023/24 (projected):

    a. Gross total expenditure on older person's (65+) services

    b. Gross total expenditure on residential home placements (65+)

    c. Gross total expenditure on nursing home placements (65+)

    d. Gross total expenditure on domiciliary care/home care (65+)

    For question 2a, please provide total spend on personal social services for people aged 65+. This will include spend on residential, nursing, and domiciliary care (2b, 2c, and 2d) as well as other social care for older people such as day services, etc.

    3. Please provide figures for the total number of older people (age 65+) that the council has placed in the financial year 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 (projected) and funded in:

    a. Residential care

    b. Residential dementia care

    c. Nursing care

    d. Nursing dementia care

    e. Domiciliary care/home care

    4. Please provide the average (mean) weekly fees paid for care home placements for older people (aged 65+) in financial year 2022/23 and 2023/24:

    a. Older person's residential

    b. Older person's residential dementia

    c. Older person's nursing

    d. Older person's nursing dementia

    5. Please provide the set or banded weekly fees paid for care home placements for older people (aged 65+) in financial year 2022/23 and 2023/24:

    a. Older person's residential

    b. Older person's residential dementia

    c. Older person's nursing

    d. Older person's nursing dementia

    Published: 18 December 2023

  9. Japanese Knotweed info for last five years

    I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your Environmental Department.

    Please may you provide me with an extensive list of addresses whereas a council you have treated Japanese Knotweed or have Japanese Knotweed treatment and control measures in place within the last 5 years.

    Please provide the information in the form of a spreadsheet or word document.

    Published: 14 December 2023

  10. Car Park Orders for Mill Street Car Park, Kington

    Clarification: This is only for Orders which are in force today and penalty notices from 1st April 1998.

    1) Please supply details of the Parking Order for Mill Street Car Park, Kington:

    a) A copy of the Order as made, dimensions of places, signs to be displayed for Electric Vehicles only, and for Disabled spaces.

    b) When the markings were last painted.

    c) When the space markings were last checked for legibility.

    d) When all earlier non-applicable markings were permanently removed.

    2) Please provide statistics of all penalty notices, as held, issued for:

    a) General car parking spaces

    b) Electric vehicles spaces used by non-electric vehicles

    c) Disabled spaces by failure to display a blue badge

    Published: 14 December 2023