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. From 1st June 2024 - 30th June 2026 (broken down by month and year by year if possible please):

    How many reports did your council receive of home improvement traders breaching consumer protection law.

    If possible, please break the data down by type of home improvement trader e.g. builder, decorator, plumber OR type of work they were carrying out.

    Published: 27 October 2026

  2. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request information regarding commissioned services from community pharmacies. I would like to know:

    1. The name of any services commissioned from community pharmacies by Herefordshire Council, outside of the NHS-negotiated Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework

    2. The number of pharmacies which have signed up to provide each service

    3. The payment mechanism and payment rates for each service, including whether payment is made through a block contract, fixed retainer, fee per activity/intervention, or another arrangement. Where applicable, please provide the individual fees or rates payable

    4. The total spending (including fixed retainers and activity-based payments) for each service for the last full financial year in which it is available. If the service is provided under a block contract, please provide the annual contract value for the most recent financial year available

    5. The start and finish date of the contract I'd be most grateful if you could provide your response in Excel or CSV format. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you wish to clarify my request.

    Published: 27 October 2026

  3. I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act. Please provide the following information regarding pest control and extermination services handled by or on behalf of the Council:

    1. Annual Extermination / Treatment Volume For each of the last five financial years (2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26), please provide the total number of pest control treatments, exterminations, or call-outs carried out by the Council (or its contracted pest control provider).

    2. Breakdown by Pest Type For each year listed above, please provide a breakdown of these figures by pest type (e.g., rats, mice, bedbugs, wasps, cockroaches, squirrels, or other pests).

    Published: 27 October 2026

  4. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please could you tell me:

    1. Whether Herefordshire Council has any policy, list or instruction that prohibits or restricts the purchase or use of CCTV or camera equipment from specific manufacturers or providers.

    2. If so, which manufacturers or providers are affected. A reply by email is fine.

    Published: 27 October 2026

  5. I am writing to you to ask for information under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 relating to the pressures being placed upon sewage and water infrastructure in England and Wales from new development in your area.

    Please can you provide a list of:

    a) any new housing developments in your authority area, where a sewerage undertaker and/or water company has objected to connection of the development to the foul sewer in the planning process, from the last three years (May 2023 - May 2026)

    b) for each site, please provide the following information:

    * i) the location of the site (address, easting/northing, or National Grid Reference)

    * ii) the number of dwellings being proposed

    * ii) planning application reference

    * iv) links to documents or copies of the documents containing the details of the objection e.g. planning committee report

    * v) if a planning condition requiring a strategic foul water strategy to be submitted to the local Planning Authority has been applied (Yes/No)

    Please can the information be provided as an excel format.

    I am seeking recorded information held by the authority. While individual planning files may be available on a public planning portal, locating and compiling all relevant cases would require a manual search across potentially thousands of records.

    Therefore, section 21 (information reasonably accessible by other means) would not provide equivalent access to the information requested if the authority holds records, reports, databases, registers or searches capable of identifying such cases.

    Under Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, public authorities have a duty to provide advice and assistance. If any part of this request is unclear or too broad, I would be grateful if you could advise how it might be refined so that the information can be provided.

    Published: 26 October 2026

  6. 1. In each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, how many pest-related complaints, reports or service requests did the council receive, broken down by pest type: rats; mice; bedbugs; cockroaches; wasps; fleas; ants; other? If you do not record by pest type, please give the total.

    2. In each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, how many pest control treatments or callouts at residents' homes did the council carry out, or arrange through a contractor?

    3. In each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, how many fly-tipping incidents did the council record?

    4. As at the date of your response:

    (a) does the council offer a pest control service to residents for their homes (yes/no), and if it has been withdrawn or reduced since 2015, in which year?

    (b) is the service delivered in-house or by a contractor, and if so, which?

    (c) what is the standard charge to a resident for a rat treatment, and for a bedbug treatment, including VAT?

    (d) which residents, if any, qualify for free or discounted treatment?

    (e) the web address of your pest control page.

    Clarification: Question 1 covers all pest-related complaints, reports and service requests the council received about domestic premises (people's homes), whether from owners or tenants - for example reports of rats, mice, bedbugs, cockroaches, wasps, fleas or ants dealt with by environmental health or by any pest control service the council runs or arranges. Relevant legislation would include the Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949, but I am not limiting the question to any particular statute. If you also hold figures for commercial premises, please give them separately. Questions 2 to 4 are unchanged.

    Published: 23 October 2026

  7. Please provide the following figures under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

    Who to count These definitions follow your Client Level Data (CLD) return to NHS England, so the figures should come straight from your CLD records.

    - People: adults aged 18 to 64 on 31 March 2026 receiving long-term support arranged or funded, in whole or in part, by the council on that date, each counted once.

    Please exclude short-term support, respite and temporary care home stays.

    - Setting (CLD service component): residential care ("Long term residential care"), nursing care ("Long term nursing care") and supported living ("Community supported living", not extra care housing).

    - Outside the area: the postcode of the person's normal place of residence recorded for CLD lies outside your council's boundary.

    For a care home, this is the home's postcode; for supported living, the tenancy address.

    - Primary support reason: as recorded for CLD.

    Question 1: all adults aged 18 to 64

    1a. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    1b. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    1c. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    1d. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___,

    location not recorded: ___

    Question 2: the same adults, by primary support reason Learning disability support

    2a. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2b. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2c. Supported living -

    total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2d. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Mental health support

    2e. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2f. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2g. Supported living -

    total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2h. All three settings -

    total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Physical or sensory support

    2i. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2j. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2k. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2l. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    All other reasons, or not recorded

    2m. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2n. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2o. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    2p. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Question 3: the same adults with a recorded autism diagnosis (CLD autism field "Yes") If the council does not record autism diagnosis,please say so.

    3a. Residential care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    3b. Nursing care

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    3c. Supported living

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    3d. All three settings

    - total: ___,

    outside the area: ___

    Small numbers The totals matter most. If you need to withhold small numbers, please withhold figures in Questions 2 and 3 first, and keep the "All three settings" lines wherever possible. Please show withheld figures as, for example, "<5" with your threshold, and true zeros as 0. A band such as "1-4" is fine. If this would exceed the cost limit Please answer Question 1, then Question 2, then Question 3, and tell me which parts you could not answer, rather than refusing the whole request. Format Filling in the lines above in your reply is equally fine. If you use a different date or definition, please say which.

    Published: 23 October 2026

  8. To assist us in better understanding the reach and implementation of the programme, please can you provide - for each year in the period 2018–2025 (or the fullest extent available) - any available data held by the council in relation to the following points, broken down separately by holiday period (Christmas, Easter and Summer; and where applicable February, late Spring and October half-terms):

    1. the number of child-day-places commissioned in each holiday

    2. the number of child-day-places attended in each holiday

    3. the overall number of unique children who participated in the programme in each holiday

    4. the overall number of unique children in receipt of FSMs who participated in the programme in each holiday

    5. the number of unique children with SEND or additional needs who have participated in the programme in each holiday

    6. the number and proportion of unique children who are in the primary school age range, the secondary school age range, and any children outside of those age ranges who attended the programme in each holiday

    7. whether the council received or used funding from sources other than the Department for Education's HAF grant to support the delivery of HAF activities. This includes funding from private sources (such as charitable institutions), as well as funds that were reallocated to the HAF programme from other government funding sources (such as the Crisis and Resilience Fund or the Household Support Fund).

    8.the amount of any such additional funding,

    9. the source of the additional funding, and

    10. postcodes of all venues where the HAF programme was delivered, listed separately for each holiday period.

    Information in the form of an Excel spreadsheet or CSV format would be appreciated, if possible.

    Published: 23 October 2026

  9. I am writing to submit a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am requesting information regarding all currently licensed private hire vehicles (PHVs) and hackney carriage vehicles (HCs) under the authority of Herefordshire Council

    For each currently licensed vehicle, I kindly request the following information:

    -Vehicle make, model and body colour

    -Date of first registration with the DVLA

    - Date of the next MOT inspection test, Compliance test or any other vehicle technical inspection

    - Licence issue and expiry date

    Where applicable, please provide the dates in DD/MM/YYYY format.

    I am requesting the information as it is currently held by the Council. I am not requesting any personal information relating to vehicle owners or licence holders.

    Published: 22 October 2026

  10. Under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, please send me the current school catchment (priority, designated or normal) area boundaries for Herefordshire, for admission in September 2027, as GIS data (Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON, ideally in British National Grid or WGS84), with the name and DfE number (URN or LAESTAB) of the school each area belongs to. I am asking because the boundaries are currently published only as an online map or address lookup, which cannot be reused accurately. If a file is already held for the council's own map viewer, that will do. If any area is not held digitally, please say which. Please tell me the licence the data is supplied under.

    Published: 21 October 2026