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, and with relation to the below site or sites operated by Asda Stores Limited (or other companies within the Asda group), please can you provide me with details of:

    1) The number of RIDDOR reports that have been made regarding incidents at each site, broken down by the financial years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24;

    2) The cause of each such incident, broken down by broad heading, where this information is held;

    3) Copies of any health and safety inspection reports held by the authority that arose from inspections of the below site or sites during the same period;

    4) Copies of any reports arising from health and safety investigations held by the authority that took place in response to incidents at the below site or sites during the same period; and 5) Details of complaints made about the site or sites by members of the public during the same period, including the numbers and reasons for such complaints, and copies of the complaints where they are held in a reasonably accessible and anonymised format.

    The site or sites in question are: ASDA - HEREFORD SUPERCENTRE 4598 BELMONT ROAD, HEREFORD, HR2 7JE

    CLARIFICATION Health and safety issues: 1. Slips, trips, wet floor, uneven floor 2. Products falling on customers 3. Pallets falling on customers 4. Home shopping trolleys or pallets colliding with customers 5. Rodent/Animal bites to customers 6. Products or shelving causing cuts, bruises, broken bones, fractures 7. Pallets in aisle's causing injury to customers/falling over products, pallets left out 8. Any incident a member of the public has reported about the store/stores that is a health and safety issue

    Published: 11 July 2024

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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

    Published: 1 July 2024

  10. 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