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. Number of looked after children who have left council care to live with parents, relatives or person

   Please supply me with the number of looked after children who have left council care to live with parents, relatives or persons with PR/no PR over the last two years.

   Published: 9 February 2023

2. Number of users - new cycle lanes St Owen Street

   Could you forward me the number of cyclists that use the new cycle lane in St Owens Street, per day, per week and the predicted number of users to justify the vast amount of money spent on this project.

   Published: 8 February 2023

3. Public Transport Budget

   I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Herefordshire Council's Transport Department. Please may you provide me with:

   The councils 2021/2022, 2022/2023 & 2023/2024 public transport budget and spend. Could this be broken down into spending for each transport category:

   Support Bus spend (Subsidised Bus), Commercial Bus spend, Home-to-School spend, SEN Transport spend, Community Transport spend, Student Transport spend, DRT spend (Demand Responsive Transport), Dial-a-Ride spend, NEMT spend (Non-Emergency Medical Transport) and any others I have missed.

   Published: 7 February 2023

4. Details of black led organisations, groups, networks and funding

   BME Volunteers CIC would like to request that a copy of the following information [or public sector duty/equality assessments documents containing the following information] be provided:

   1. A list (public names, telephone numbers and emails) of black-led organisations, groups, networks, forums, or entities that applied for funding from 1 January 2019 to 1 January 2023

   2. A list (public names, telephone numbers and emails) of black-led organisations, groups, networks, forums, or entities that secured funding from 1 January 2019 to 1 January 2023

   An organisation is Black Led if:

   Their Management Committee or Board has at least 75% of representation from people of African or African Caribbean Descent and;

   At least 50% of their paid staff team are African or African Caribbean people with representation at all levels of the organisation and;

   They provide services for or work on behalf of African and Caribbean people.

   For clarification this request relates to Herefordshire Council funding only.

   Published: 7 February 2023

5. s106 allocation

   Are John Masefield High School due to receive section 106 funding for 5 other housing developments in Ledbury? If so, please could you supply details of the developments and how much will be received.

   Please could you list all the housing developments in Ledbury since 2015, the amounts received, how the money has been allocated and the rationale and reasoning behind these decisions.

   Please could you provide the final decisions behind the allocation of the funding received by Herefordshire Council from which Ceri Morgan initially promised John Masefield a new science block and the rationale for these decisions.

   Please could you also explain the rationale behind awarding considerable funding (about £2million) from the same source to JKHS for a new science block before decisions were made about other schools.

   Published: 3 February 2023

6. Number of times pupils found with offensive weapons/potentially offensive weapons in schools

   I am writing to ask for your assistance with the below FOI request pertaining to data that we believe you hold.

   For the purposes of this request, the time frames to be considered are:

   - For the school year 2018/2019

   - For the school year 2019/2020

   - For the school year 2020/2021

   - For the school year 2021/2022

   - For the school year 2022/2023 so far, up to and including the day of your response to this inquiry.

   1. Broken down by the above timeframes, how many times have pupils been found with offensive, or potentially offensive, weapons on school premises within your local authority area? This includes being in possession of an article with a blade or point, or corrosive substance.

   2. Can you please provide a breakdown of the weapons found and the age of the child involved in each case?

   3. Please detail in each case, if the case was reported to police?

   Published: 3 February 2023

7. Contested history in council areas

   I am interested in issues of race in the built environment.

   For the last year up to date, but inclusive of information and documents from work which may have begun before this period and is still being pursued by the council.

   (For example, a project to identify monument may have begun in 2020, but the list compiled from this project may still be used by the council now)

   1. Could you please provide any list or review/research/report/survey of locations (streets/buildings/parks), or public art (such as statues), plaques, commemorations, graves, memorials that the council has produced in relation to slavery, colonialism, empire/British Empire, racism, white supremacy, Black Lives Matter, decolonising, racial justice.

   In question form: "What in the built environment has the organisation, or a group working on its behalf, identified as being linked to racism, slavery, colonialism: that is, contested history?"

   2. Could you please provide details of what being done to highlight, reinterpret, re-display, or rename aspects of the environment in the council area identifying in part 1 of this request

   In question form: "What work (such as adding interpretation, or information boards, or plaques close to contested monuments) has been undertaken by the council to address these legacies?

   3. If applicable, can you please provide information on what is being done to address issues of slavery, colonialism, empire/British Empire, racism, white supremacy, Black Lives Matter, decolonising, racial justice in council museums?

   For example, what information boards have been added, what has been taken off display or put on display, what new plaques have been erected?

   4. The same as for part 3, but can you provide information on how council libraries have addressed these issues.

   For example, have any books been specifically banned or removed from the library? Has a system of trigger warnings been established for sensitive topics?

   (This can be broad, I do not need an full check of all items in the library; please do not get bogged won in this if it is likely to go over the limit).

   5. For the above work to address contested history, can you please provide information any grants received by the council to pursue this work, or any payments or grants made by the council to pursue this work (for example, to a local anti-racism group tasked with identifying contested history).

   6. Can you provide information on any schools in the council area that have applied to change their name in relation to issues of contested history.

   Published: 3 February 2023

8. Belmont Road speed camera intended prosecution notices for 2022

   I would like to know how many notices of intended prosecution were served in 2022 on drivers detected breaking the speed limit by the Belmont Road fixed speed camera in Hereford, and how this compares with 2021.

   I would also like to know how many of those drivers opted to pay the resulting fine, and also what the top speed detected by the camera in each year was.

   I would like the above information to be provided to me in electronic form.

   If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that you are required to advise and assist requesters.

   If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary.

   If the release of any of this information is prohibited on the grounds of breach of confidence, please supply me with copies of the confidentiality agreement(s).

   Published: 3 February 2023

9. Deputyship cases

   FOI REQUEST this is a separate request for the attention of the teams listed below 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 27/11/22 to the day of your reply or as close as possible.

   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: 3 February 2023

10. Planning applications between 2013 and 2022

    1) The number of full-time equivalent (FTE) planning department case officers employed by the council in each year between 2013 and 2022.

    2) The number of major planning applications determined by the council in each year between 2013 and 2022.

    3) The average number of weeks between major planning applications being validated and determined, in each year between 2013 and 2022.

    Published: 2 February 2023