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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1,821 disclosures
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I am writing to request the following information on your Local Plans for accessible housing. 1. What is your current Local Plan for new housing? Please provide its name and dates. 2. How many new homes are planned under your current Local Plan? Please provide a yearly breakdown (financial year). 3. Does your current Local Plan for new homes include a technical accessibility standard? 4. What are the technical accessibility standard(s) detailed in your current Local Plan for new homes? 5. How many new homes are planned under your current Local Plan to meet a technical accessibility standard? Please provide a yearly breakdown (financial year). 6. Under your current local plan, of the new homes planned to meet a technical accessibility standard, how many are planned to meet the requirements of: * Wheelchair design standard * Lifetime Homes Standard * M4(1) Category 1 * M4(2) Category 2 * M4(3) Category 3(A) * M4(3) Category 3(B) 7. How many homes planned to meet the above technical accessibility standards are council owned properties? Please provide a breakdown by each type of technical accessibility standard within this. I would be grateful if you could break down the data in yearly increments (financial year) where possible.
Published: 28 February 2022
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This is an FOI request about SEND staff. Please provide all of this information for January 2017 to January 2022, broken down on a quarterly basis (so 4 times a calendar year):
Q1a) How many people in your whole SEN team - (everybody in the team including managers/senior staff and officers/case workers)
Q1b) How many SEN officers in your team (just officers - or whatever equivalent title you use for SEN staff that are the primary point of contact with families, e.g officers, or caseworkers)
Q1c) How many temporary (agency) SEN workers in your team Please specify/include each time a new SEN staff member has left or joined the team within this same timeframe also broken down on a quarterly basis
Q2a) What was the total the council spent on all SEN staff salaries in this period (also quarterly)
Q2b) What was the total the council spend on SEN officers' salaries
Q2c) What was the total spent on temporary (agency) SEN workers
Q3) Have the qualifications required in order to get a job with the council as a SEN officer changed at all during this time? If so, please specify
Published: 28 February 2022
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Please complete the attached questionnaire
Published: 25 February 2022
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1. How many Blue Badges do you currently have on issue? 2. How many Blue Badge applications did you receive in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021? 3. How many badges did you issue in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021? 4. How many badges are currently issued to people who qualify because of hidden disabilities? 5. Which department enforces the Blue Badge Scheme? 6. How many reports of Blue Badge misuse did you receive in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021? 7. How many officers (full or part-time) are allocated to investigating Blue Badge misuse? 8. How many people were prosecuted for Blue Badge abuse in 2021? 9. What were the total fines issued by the Court for Blue Badge misuse in 2021? 10. What were the total costs awarded by the Court for Blue Badge misuse in 2021? 11. When was the last time that Blue Badge parking provision was reviewed? 12. What action was taken following this review? Were numbers of disabled bays increased, decreased or no action taken? 13. When did you last increase the number of Blue Badge parking spaces?
Published: 25 February 2022
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Q1. How many Dangerous Wild Animal permits (under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976) did your council approve, by year, in 2017-2021?
Q2. Which animals were these permits for?
Q3. What checks, if any, does your council make when granting these permits to the CITES species appendices: https://cites.org/eng/disc/species.php?
Q4. What checks, if any, does your council make to ensure these animals are not brought in through the illegal wildlife trade?
Published: 25 February 2022
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I'm writing to request a summary of information from your Trading Standards department - under the Freedom of Information Act - in relation to the number of reports/complaints made to you relating to selling kittens and kitten farming. Please provide the information in the form of -
Q1. Number of kitten related complaints made to local Trading Standards between 23 March 2020 - 31 December 2020
Q2. Number of kitten related complaints made to local Trading Standards made during the last five years (2017-2021) from 1 January 2017 to December 31 2021, with the data broken down for each year please.
Published: 25 February 2022
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This is a new request for new information only. It is not a repeated request. Please could you kindly send me any information you may hold relating to persons who are/were known to the Council via any of the following teams and who have died with: - no known next of kin (defined as blood relatives) OR - where you have been unable to engage with or locate any KNOWN next of kin, Please provide details of cases that have occurred or come to your attention since 1/12/21 to the day of your reply or as close as possible. The name of the team responsible varies but exists within all County Councils, London Boroughs, Unitary & Metropolitan District Councils. Team names: * Deputyship * Appointeeship * Adult social care * Client Finance Team * Protection of Property * Financial Assessment * Other team name whereby Council official(s) were charged with handling the financial affairs of the (now deceased) person Please provide as much of the following information as you can: 1. full names of deceased persons 2. dates of death 3. marital status 4. maiden surnames of married or widowed females 5. dates of birth or ages at death 6. last known addresses 7. estimated value of estates 8. date(s) when the information was passed (or information that is about to be or likely to be passed) to the Government Legal Department (formerly Treasury Solicitor) or the Duchy of Lancaster or Cornwall or any other 3rd party, or, confirmation that this will not be happening and the reason why.
Published: 25 February 2022
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I would like to be provided with details of all residential property in the borough owned by the Salvation Army (SA) over the past five years that has been left vacant. I would also like to know what council tax discount (if any) these properties have been granted for the vacancy periods (https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/second-homes-and-empty-properties).
For the avoidance of doubt, I am only asking for details about vacancy at and council taxes levied on Salvation Army properties - and not the actual addresses of the homes.
The information should be presented in separate tables for each year (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) with the following columns.
1/ Sequential Salvation Army Properties in the borough (ie Property 1, Property 2 etc etc).
2/ No. of days of the year the property was left vacant.
3/ Council tax paid by the SA on the property during the year.
4/ The discount granted to the SA on the full council tax rate because the property had been vacant.
Published: 24 February 2022
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Q1. I would like to know the amount of money spent on pothole repairs (£).
Q2. I would also like to know the amount of money spent on pothole related compensation (£).
Q3. I would like to know the least, most and average amount of money spent on compensation for pothole damage.
Q4. Finally, I would like to know how much you have spent on any consultant costs relating to potholes.
I would like this data for each of the last five calendar years as follows: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
Published: 24 February 2022
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1. How many bids did you submit for Round 1 Levelling Up Funding, by the deadline of midday 18 June 2021?
2. How many of these bids submitted for Round 1 Levelling Up Funding were rejected?
3. For each bid:
* Was it an individual bid, package bid or joint bid with another LA
* If joint bid please specify the other LA / LAs
* If joint bid which LA was the lead LA?
* What was the value of capital grant being requested from the UK Government (Section 3c of the Levelling Up Fund Application Form)?
* How much of the bid was themed as Transport / Regeneration and Town Centre / Cultural (Section 3d of the Levelling Up Fund Application Form)? Please express these as a percentage, as per the application form.
* Was the bid formally supported by an MP as a priority bid (Section 4.1a of the Levelling Up Fund Application Form)? If so, which MP and constituency?
* Was the bid given "wider MP (non-priority MP support)" as described in Levelling Up Technical Note, Table 1 - Stakeholder Engagement and Support? If so, which MP or MPs and constituency/constituencies?
Published: 22 February 2022