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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Under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please provide the following information covering 2019. A list of Grade I and Grade II listed properties owned by the council, which have been sold in this time period. Please include: - Address of property - Name of buyer - How much they were sold for I would like the above information to be provided to me in an Excel file, that would be super useful.
Published: 26 January 2022
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Under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please provide the following information covering 2020. A list of Grade I and Grade II listed properties owned by the council, which have been sold in this time period. Please include: - Address of property - Name of buyer - How much they were sold for.
Published: 26 January 2022
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1. Do you currently employ a Chief Data Officer in your Local Authority? (if yes go to Q2, if no go to Q5) 2. Is this person male / female? 3. If yes, What is the salary range for this post? 4. Who does the Chief Data Officer report to? 5. If no, Is this something you will be considering in the next 3 years? 6. Do you believe the demand for data insight and analysis has increased in your Local Authority since the start of the Covid Pandemic? [ ] Significant Increase [ ] Increased [ ] Remained the same [ ] Decreased [ ] Significant Decrease 7. Do you believe the demand for data insight and analysis within your organisation is currently at its highest level? [ ] Yes [ ] No 8. Please complete the table below relating to the number of enquiries for all Council services received via the following methods for the period 1st April - 31st March Financial year Website / Webform Mobile App Telephone / Call-centre 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-to date 9. What is the job title of the person responsible for data governance in your local authority? 10. What is the job title of the person responsible for the data strategy in your local authority? 11. Do you agree/disagree with the statement "Data is the local authorities most valuable asset"? [ ] Agree [ ] Disagree 12. Do you agree/disagree with the statement "The speed of being able to carry out data analysis will become more important over the next 18 months?" [ ] Agree [ ] Disagree
Published: 26 January 2022
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Under the banner of "Covid" household recycling centres across the county all require residents to pre book. 1. Please can you provide the evidence to show household recycling centres are a greater risk of transmission in comparison to other services such as retail where no pre booking is required. 2. Please can you outline the full costs to the council to have this ongoing bureaucracy: • Have Severn Waste Services charged the council for the development of this booking system? • Are Severn Waste Services charging the council for the ongoing maintenance of this booking system? • If there hasn't been a direct cost for this system, what increase in costs have the council had to pay Severn Waste Services to procure their wider services? 3. What review is in place to assess the ongoing need for this bureaucracy?
Published: 26 January 2022
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Q1. How many referrals to children's social care at your LA were made by schools / a member of staff from a school in the past four calendar years? Please can I have this information presented with a breakdown of year?
Q2. How many of those referrals in the past four calendar years made by schools / a member of staff from a schools led to no further action? Please can I have this information presented with a breakdown of year?
Published: 24 January 2022
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Q1. Does the council have a scheme in place where council house tenants can get a grant from the council to put towards buying a home of their own? If so, could you explain:
- What the scheme is
- The maximum grant you can get
- Who is eligible
Q2. If the council does have a scheme in place, I would like to know the following:
Can I get a breakdown of how many grants the council awarded over the following time periods:
· 1 January 2018 - 31 December 2018
· 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2019
· 1 January 2020 - 31 December 2020
· 1 January 2021 - 31 December 2021
Q3. What was the total value (in £) of grants awarded by the council broken down for the following years:
· 1 January 2018 - 31 December 2018
· 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2019
· 1 January 2020 - 31 December 2020
· 1 January 2021 - 31 December 2021
Q4. What was the single highest value grant (in £) awarded by the council for the following years:
· 1 January 2018 - 31 December 2018
· 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2019
· 1 January 2020 - 31 December 2020
· 1 January 2021 - 31 December 2021
Published: 24 January 2022
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For the 675 bus service which runs via Wellington Heath to Ledbury, I would be grateful if you would inform me of:
Q1.The total cost for the year ending 05/04/2021
Q2. The number of passengers carried in that time
Published: 21 January 2022
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Could you forward me the cost of hiring the traffic lights at the old mill between Rotherwas and Holme Lacy and an update as to when your contractors / partners Balfour Beatty are going to start the job along with the reason for taking virtually 12 months and No work started.
Published: 21 January 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 01/11/21 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: 21 January 2022
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Re: Self-Employed Support During the Covid Pandemic
Please can you provide information on the following questions regarding access to the Self-Isolation Support Grant in the local authority of Herefordshire Council during the Covid pandemic.
All questions refer to the time period between March 2020 and up to the latest available data.
Q1. How many individuals have applied for the Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500? Please include a month-by-month breakdown.
Q2. How many of those applications were made by self-employed people?
Q3. How many of applications made by self-employed people automatically received the payment due to being on existing benefit schemes such as Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Working Tax Credits, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support, and Housing Benefit?
Q4. How many self-employed people who were not on benefits received the Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500?
Q5. How many applications for the Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500 made by self-employed people were rejected and what were the top three reasons for rejection in these circumstances.
Q6. What was the total expenditure on Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500 made for self-employed people?
Published: 20 January 2022