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. Council Tax arrears - Enforcement agents, charging orders.

    1. How much council tax arrears was passed to enforcement agents/internal enforcement agents for recovery in 2021 and how much was recovered?

    2. How much council tax arrears was passed to enforcement agents/internal enforcement agents in 2022 and how much was recovered?

    3. How much council tax arrears was passed to enforcement agents/internal enforcement agents to date in 2023 and how much was recovered?

    4. How many charging orders against peoples homes were obtained in 2021?

    5. How many charging orders against peoples homes were obtained in 2022?

    6. How many charging orders against peoples homes were obtained in 2023 to date?

    Published: 5 September 2023

  2. Street Lighting Information - locations/type/wattage/height

    Please could you provide a copy of your street lighting inventory.

    In particular I am looking for the following fields for each light:

    - Location (lat/lon or easting/northing)

    - Lamp type (e.g. LED, SON)

    - Lamp power (Wattage or Lumen output)

    - Lamp height

    - If the lamp is dimmed or turned off for part of the night.

    Any additional fields of data held for each light would be gratefully received, but not required.

    CSV or Excel format would be preferred.

    Published: 5 September 2023

  3. Gov.Notify accounts

    According to information published on the Gov.Uk Notify website (GovNotify), your organisation is currently using 4 live Gov Notify services. Could you please provide me with;

    1. A list of the 4 departments or services currently using Gov Notify.

    2. The primary name and contact details for each of the Gov Notify account holders.

    Published: 5 September 2023

  4. Pedwardine Lane - Enforcement action

    Please supply a copy of any Notices and any contact/correspondence sent by HC to landowners adjacent to Pedwardine Lane in respect of overgrowth of the Highway.

    Published: 4 September 2023

  5. What weight management service contracts do Hereford Council have and the amount paid

    Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:

    - Whether the council has weight management service contracts with Slimming World/Miles Bramwell or WW/Weight Watchers, either directly or through a third party organisation?

    o Which other weight management services does the council have contracts with?

    - The total amount paid over the course of any current contracts with Slimming World - or estimated budget, where amount paid not available.

    o The total amount paid over the course of contracts with Slimming World -or estimated budget, where amount paid not available - for the following financial years: 2018-2019; 2019-2020; 2020-2021; 2021-2022; 2022-2023; 2023-present.

    - The total amount paid over the course of any current contracts with Weight Watchers/WW - or estimated budget, where amount paid not available.

    o The total amount paid over the course of contracts with Weight Watchers/WW - or estimated budget, where amount paid not available - for the following financial years: 2018-2019; 2019-2020; 2020-2021; 2021-2022; 2022-2023; 2023-present.

    - The start and end dates of active contracts with Slimming World.

    - The start and end dates of active contracts with Weight Watchers.

    - How many people have accessed Slimming World through the council's partnership over the last five years, broken down by year?

    - How many people have accessed Weight Watchers through the council's partnership over the last five years, broken down by year?

    Published: 4 September 2023

  6. Shenmore Batchy - Enforcement action

    Please supply a copy of any Notices and any contact/correspondence sent by HC to landowners adjacent to Shenmore Batchy in respect of overgrowth of the Highway.

    Published: 4 September 2023

  7. Private Rented Sector Enforcement: Penalties Issued 2021/22 and 2022/23

    This FOI is for the attention of council officers who oversee civil penalty enforcement in the private rented sector for the council.

    1. The total number of Civil Penalties relating to housing offences served to private landlords per year for the following years: 2021/2022 2022/2023

    2. The number of Civil Penalties issued to private landlords each year (so 2021/2022 & 2022/2023) for each of the following offences:

    a) Failure to comply with an Improvement Notice (section 30 of the Housing Act 2004)

    b) Offences in relation to licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (section 72 of the Housing Act 2004)

    c) Offences in relation to licensing of houses under Part 3 of the Act (section 95 of the Housing Act 2004)

    d) Offences of contravention of an overcrowding notice (section 139 of the Housing Act 2004)

    e) Failure to comply with management regulations in respect of Houses in Multiple Occupation (section 234 of the Housing Act 2004)

    f) Banning Orders under the Housing and Planning Act 2016

    g) Offences in relation to Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) Regulations

    3. The total amount of income (£) levied (so before appeals/negotiations/legal costs etc) in Civil Penalties relating to housing offences to private landlords per year for the following years: 2021/2022 2022/2023

    4. The total amount of income (£) collected (after appeals/negotiations/legal costs etc) in Civil Penalties relating to housing offences to private landlords per year for the following years: 2021/2022 2022/2023

    Published: 1 September 2023

  8. Internal Audit and Counter Fraud Service

    Please provide the following information for your Council for 2022/23 (or the current position)

    1. The net Revenue Cost for the whole Council:

    2. The total cost (Staff salaries, on-costs, system costs, supplies costs, transport costs) of your Internal Audit and Counter Fraud Function:

    3. Number of FTE staff in your Internal Audit and Counter Fraud service:

    4. The number of Audit days undertaken by the Internal Audit and Counter Fraud service:

    5. The productive days per FTE Internal Audit and Counter Fraud staff member:

    6. Number of FTE Internal Audit and Counter Fraud staff members:

    i. Qualified

    ii. Part Qualified

    iii. % of High/Medium Audit recommendations agreed and management actions Implemented

    7. When was Counter Fraud plan last updated:

    8. Number of FTE staff dedicated to Counter Fraud promotion:

    9. Number of FTE staff dedicated to Counter Fraud investigations:

    10. Number of Fraud incidents reported:

    11. Number of Fraud incidents investigated:

    12. Number of Fraud prosecutions initiated:

    13. Identified value of fraud savings/recovered:

    Published: 31 August 2023

  9. Compensation payment to Gigaclear at Monkland Common

    Can you confirm or deny that a payment of £12,000 was made to Gigaclear by Herefordshire Council in compensation for Gigaclear running fiber cabling across Monkland Common. If this is the case can you tell me where this money went or what it has been used for?

    Published: 31 August 2023

  10. Households presenting as homeless between 2022 and 2023 claiming Universal Credit/Housing Benefit

    I write to request information on the number of households claiming Universal Credit and/or housing benefit who presented to you as homeless between May 2022 and June 2023.

    As part of this request, I would like this information to be broken down into the following:

    (i) The total number of households claiming Universal Credit presenting as homeless since May 2022, broken down into leasehold property, private rented and social housing;

    (i) The total number of households claiming housing benefit - part of the legacy welfare system - presenting as homeless since May 2022, broken down into leasehold property, private rented and social housing (if relevant).

    If the cost of breaking down property types exceeds the figure set out in Section 12 of the FOI Act, then please provide a total amount of households presenting while claiming Universal Credit.

    Published: 30 August 2023