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. Local Welfare Rights Data

    How much funding have you provided for the following activities in each of the last four years (20/21, 21/22, 22/23, 23/24):

    1. Welfare Rights/ specialist benefits advice provision delivered in-house by the local authority

    a. What is the total amount spent per year?

    b. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from core council budgets such as: general fund, housing rent account, social care, children’s social services budgets services or other in-house budgets (ie. excluding specific grants spent on benefit advice provision eg. HSF or COVID recovery or other time-limited grants)

    c. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from NHS / public health sources d. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from grant funding (including time-limited grants such as HSF)/ arrangements from other sources e. Please specify the grants/ other sources/ arrangements referred to in 1c and d

    2. Welfare Rights / specialist benefits advice provision delivered by voluntary/ community/ partner organisations

    a. What is the total amount spent per year?

    b. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from core council budgets such as: general fund, housing rent account, social care, children’s social services budgets services or other in-house budgets (ie. excluding specific grants spent on benefit advice provision eg. HSF or Covid recovery or other time-limited grants)

    c. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from NHS/ public health sources D

    d. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from grant funding (including time-limited grants such as HSF) / arrangements from other sources

    e. Please specify the grants referred to in 2c and d 3. General advice provision which may include benefits advice by voluntary/ community/ partner organisations

    a. What is the total amount spent per year?

    b. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from core council budgets such as: general fund, housing rent account, social care, children’s social services budgets services or other in-house budgets (ie. excluding specific grants spent on benefit advice provision eg. HSF or Covid recovery or other time-limited grants)

    c. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from NHS/ public health sources D

    d. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from grant funding (including time-limited grants such as HSF)/ arrangements from other sources e. Please specify the grants referred to in 3c and d

    Published: 15 September 2025

  2. Housing Enforcement - prosecutions of, and civil penalties issued to, companies since 2010

    I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information act 2000:

    All prosecutions of, and civil penalties issued to, companies by the Council under the Housing Act 2004 since 2010, including name of the company, date of prosecution/penalty, size of monetary penalty including costs awarded, and a brief description of the offence.

    Published: 12 September 2025

  3. Service Management Tool

    Please see the attached survey questions.

    Published: 12 September 2025

  4. Home maintenance and improvements

    I would like to know the number of complaints received by the Local Authority’s Trading Standards service relating to Home Maintenance and Improvements; broken down by breach type (Case Codes) : 1) Criminal 2) Civil”.

    Received between 19/8/2024 – present.

    Secondly, I would also like to know the number of complaints within the same time period received by the Local Authority’s Trading Standards service relating to Home Maintenance and Improvements that were classified as "Suspected Scam/rogue trader".

    Thirdly, can you also tell me how many Trading Standards officer(s) you have in your authority.

    Fourthly, I also want to know many traders within the home maintenance and improvements sector have been subjected to successful prosecution during the time frame above.

    My layout suggestion for returning results:

    - Complaints about Home Maintenance and Improvements classified as criminal: XXX

    - Complaints about Home Maintenance and Improvements classified as civil: XXX

    - Complaints about Home Maintenance and Improvements classified as Suspected scam/rogue trader: XXX

    - Number of trading standards officers: XXX

    - How many traders within home maintenance and improvements have been successfully prosecuted: XXX

    Published: 12 September 2025

  5. Car Ownership and Fuel type

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I respectfully request the following information regarding the vehicles owned, managed, or leased by your authority as of August 2025.

    Notes to ensure clarity:

    "Road legal" refers to vehicles that are registered to drive on public roads, excluding those used solely on private land (e.g., golf buggies, some groundskeeping equipment).

    "Owned, managed, or leased" includes any vehicles under the council's direct control, regardless of the financial arrangement.

    1. Total number of road-legal vehicles currently owned, managed, or leased by the council. This should include all vehicle types (e.g., cars, vans, HGVs, specialist vehicles) registered for use on public roads.

    2. A Breakdown of the different fuel types Electric: Vehicles powered solely by an electric battery.

    Hybrid: Vehicles that combine an electric motor with a petrol or diesel internal combustion engine (this includes both standard hybrids and plug-in hybrids).

    Petrol: Vehicles powered solely by petrol (excluding hybrids).

    Diesel: Vehicles powered solely by diesel (excluding hybrids).

    Other?

    Published: 12 September 2025

  6. Support for Home Educators

    We wish to ask for information pertaining to support your EHE team offers to home educators.

    These questions are SOLELY about support from the EHE team, we are NOT asking about support to register in school, or services beyond the EHE team.

    Question 1

    a) Is support mentioned (either directly or indirectly) in EHE communications with home educators?

    b) If yes, state whether this is in writing or verbal.

    c) What is the wording used in the communication to convey support is available?

    d) What support does the EHE service offer? For example financial, exam centre listings, advice around resources etc.

    Question 2

    a) If support is not mentioned, is any available?

    b) if yes, what support does the EHE team offer? for example financial, exam centre listings, advice around resources etc.

    Published: 11 September 2025

  7. Single-handed and double-handed care policies and practices

    We would be very grateful if you would be able to respond to this message and provide us with any formal communication and/or documentation that can help us better understand the following:

    1. Do you have any official policy guidelines that describe what qualifies someone to receive double- or single-handed care?

    2. If so, what is the rationale that underlies these guidelines and what determines the level of care someone can receive?

    3. In practice, are there any issues or barriers that have been encountered when implementing either double- or single-handed care?

    4. Has there been a shift in the qualifying criteria for someone who can receive double-handed care? (i.e. how long has your current policy been in place, how is it different to anything that existed previously?)

    5. If there is a preference towards single-handed care, what is the rationale behind this and how has this been managed?

    Published: 10 September 2025

  8. HMO Revocations

    According to this recent FOI request, LINK, the council has already revoked licences on 12 HMOs in the county so far this year - the same figure as for the whole of last year, which was in turn higher than for previous years.

    Can the council please say what the reasons were for each of this year's 12 revocations, and what their geographical split was between Hereford, each of the market towns, and the wider county?

    Published: 10 September 2025

  9. Football pitches owned and operated by the council

    I am writing to request the following under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

    • How many football pitches did the council own on 1 January of each of the following years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025?

    • Of football pitches owned by the council, how many did the council operate on 1 January of each of the following years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025?

    • How many football pitches owned by the council were closed down or sold in each of the following years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025?

    Published: 9 September 2025

  10. Grass cutting being done at The Riverside Park Pathway route on Little Marcle Road

    Today I noticed grass cutting being done at The Riverside Park Pathway route on Little Marcle Road. There were 3 men, one on a grass cutter and one with a strimmer.

    Another was further down the route waiting with a vehicle. Given the very minimal work done by 3 Balfour Beatty contractors where the only grass cut was in close proximity to the mud line, please provide the cost of this job to the tax-payer.

    Published: 9 September 2025