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. Women on waiting list for council housing living in refuge

   - The total number of women currently (as of 24/01/23) on your waiting list for council housing who are living in a refuge/ supported living facility for women fleeing domestic abuse.

   - Of this number, please can you provide the total number of women who have been on the list for

   i) up to six months

   ii) up to one year

   iii) up to two years

   iii) more than two years.

   Published: 14 February 2023

2. Household Support Fund

   I'm interested in hearing more about the Household Support Fund. I would like to know the following:

   1. The number of applications to the Household Support Fund during the 12 months to 31st December 2022.

   2. The monetary amount of support provided to applicants to the Household Support Fund during the 12 months to 31st December 2022.

   3. The number of successful applicants to the Household Support Fund during the 12 months to 31st December 2022.

   4. If possible, I would also like to know the outstanding monetary amount from the Household Support Fund that is available before the scheme ends on 31st March 2023.

   Published: 14 February 2023

3. Amount spent on new furniture at the Plough Lane offices during 2022

   Please can you confirm how much money was spent on new furniture for the Plough Lane offices in Hereford during 2022.

   Published: 14 February 2023

4. Information regarding Potentially Violent Persons/Restricted Persons Register

   Under the Freedom of Information Act, please may I have a redacted copy (i.e. one which does not contain names, addressed or other information likely to lead to a person on the register being identified) of the latest copy of your Potentially Violent Persons Register aka Restricted Persons Register aka Cautionary Register aka whatever relevant name you know such a register by.

   Published: 14 February 2023

5. Council house EPC ratings & MEES enforcement

   I would like information about your council's homes and MEES enforcements in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information may be held by a housing department or similar. In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:

   a) What is the energy efficiency of the council's homes (managed or owned by the council)? Please provide either a distribution table with the number of buildings for each EPC rating or the percentage of the council's homes that have received an EPC rating of C or above.

   b) What is the number of investigations, enforcement notices and enforcement actions that the council did, related to MEES (Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards) in the 2021/22 financial year.

   Where data is available separately for each statistic please provide separately. If only some information is available, please give me that information. I would prefer to receive information in a machine readable format, such as CSV files for data, where possible.

   Published: 13 February 2023

6. Parking fines issued and appealed from 2018 - 2022

   1. How many parking fines were handed out by the council in the last five calendar years - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018?

   2. Of those parking fines, how many were appealed in the last five calendar years - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018?

   3. How many parking fine appeals were successful in the last five calendar years - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018?

   4. Which of the council run car parks has the highest number of fines?

   5. Which month has the highest number of parking fines each year for the last five calendar years - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018?

   Published: 13 February 2023

7. Care Home Buildings Usage

   Please could I request the following information Under the Freedom of Information Act: Could you provide this information by email, preferably in a spreadsheet.

   The number of buildings operated or owned by this Local Government Authority, whose primary purpose was to act as a care home, that are not being used to provide care services?

   Where care homes are not being used to provide care, please state the reason. For example; the buildings are too old to be suitable, they are being used as alternative accommodation, are lying empty etc.

   Published: 13 February 2023

8. High Fat, Salt & Sugar (HFSS) regulations

   - The number of businesses which breached HFSS since its introduction

   - How many HFSS compliance visits the council has made since its introduction

   - The penalty for the breach. If the punishment was a fine, please outline the value of the fine

   - The name that the offending businesses traded under, and its address

   - A breakdown of the business type (supermarket, convenience store, retailer, restaurant)

   - Copies of the enforcement letters sent to businesses breaching HFSS legislation

   Published: 10 February 2023

9. Environmental Enforcement Fixed Penalty Notices

   I am interested in the total number of environmental enforcement Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) that have been issued by your council in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

   Could this also be broken down by:

   * The offence each environmental enforcement FPN was issued

   * The value of each penalty issued

   * Whether each penalty was paid by the offender

   Published: 10 February 2023

10. VAT Information - Adult and Children Care

    Please can you confirm if your authority has paid fees to any of your suppliers of Adult or Children care plus standard rated VAT (at 20%) at any time within the last six months.

    Published: 10 February 2023