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

1. Grass cutting costs

   How much does the contractor get paid a year to cut the verges throughout the parishes of Welsh Newton and Llanrothal?

   Published: 2 November 2021

2. School Uniform Grants

   As a local authority, do you provide a School Uniform Grant? (it may be called a different name in your authority, but is generally known as this).

   Published: 1 November 2021

3. Allotments

   Q1. How many people applied for allotments in the following timeframes: 2019, 2020 and 2021 to date?

   Q2. How many people are on the current waiting list for allotments?

   Q3. The age breakdown of people who applied for allotments in the following years: 2020 and 2021 to date. Please provide age i.e. 18 - 26 yrs etc.

   Published: 1 November 2021

4. Electively home educated children

   Please provide details of the number of electively home educated children within your authority area as at 1st October 2021.

   Published: 1 November 2021

5. Record of burial and cremations from 2015

   Please may I request a record of burial and cremations from 2015 to the first 6 months of 2021?

   Published: 1 November 2021

6. Pothole reports and repairs since January 2017

   Q1. Please can you tell me how many individual potholes you have identified or had reported to you since January 2017? Please break down the figures in an Excel file that lists results by each half year to date.

   Q2. Please can you also provide me with your annual spend on pothole repairs since January 2017? Please break down the figures in an Excel file that lists results by each half year to date.

   Published: 1 November 2021

7. Contaminated Land Register

   Can you please provide details of any information you hold on the following, within the area covered by your council?

   Any Entries added or updates on the Public Register for Contaminated land under Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act (1990) since January 2017.

   Where possible, could the information be provided in the following formats in order of preference? 1. ESRI Shape File 2. GML 3. KML 4. Excel/csv

   Published: 1 November 2021

8. Cooling towers

   Please can you share a list of all registered cooling towers within the area?

   Published: 28 October 2021

9. Deputyship cases

   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 1/8/21 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: 27 October 2021

10. Prevent funding

    I write concerning the government's flagship counter extremism policy, the PREVENT duty. The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act [2015] placed a statutory duty on public sector workers to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. I am writing to you to request all the information I am entitled to under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Until the 2011 Review, Prevent funding was distributed to priority areas on the basis of demographics. The 2011 review announced that using demographics as a way of distributing Prevent funding was to change. Since the 2015 review, this information has not been available. In light of this, I wish to have the following information:

    Q1 The total Prevent budget for each year starting 2006 to present.

    Q2 The most recent list of local priority areas.

    Q3 The most recent list of other local authorities receiving Prevent funding.

    Q4 The criteria for how a local authority is identified as a local priority area.

    Q5 How is Prevent funding being decided according to different risks?

    Published: 27 October 2021