The subject headings below link to the full request details along with the council's response.
For the financial years 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11 (part), please confirm the amount (if any) paid under any grants, consultancies or contracts by the public sector
1. The amount paid in compensation by the council to individuals for the damage caused by potholes and poor road maintenance in; 2007/2008; 2008/2009; 2009/2010; 2010/2011 up to the current date
How many on time applications, where parents had listed four choices, were allocated a place at a school that was none of their choices....
Please provide me with all the documents/ briefing notes submitted to Thurrock Council's cabinet (and any other relevant committees) from the council's legal department on the legislation surrounding the placing of statutory notices in local newspapers. Please tell me what date each briefing note was circulated to the cabinet or...
1. How many members of staff does the council employ to fill trade union posts? Please provide job titles, salaries and, if possible, names for each of these posts. Please state the council's total expenditure on trade union posts in the financial year 2009-10 and so far this financial year....
I would like to be provided the following information relating to the highway on Lenthall Avenue, Grays, Essex RM17 in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act.
1. Records of highway inspections since 2005
2. Records of complaints relating to the highway since 2005
3. Records of maintenance since 2005...
The number of compensation claims - both successful and unsuccessful - made against the council for damage to property or persons due to the state of the roads in:
2011; 2010; 2009; 2008; 2007
If it is easier to provide the figures for the financial year, please do so....
In 2002 a new Con 29 was introduced. Local authorities placed restrictions on personal searchers. Councils received advice from leading counsel that such restrictions were unlawful.
The matter was referred to the OFT who conducted a Markets and Policy Study. The result was summarised in the Law Society's Gazette headline of...
I have recently been advised that some Councils have abolished charges for accessing environmental information. For example, Stoke and Herefordshire have stopped charging for accessing Building Regulation information
1. Under the Environmental Information Regulations and the Freedom of Information Act could you please forward to me all internal and...
Could you please advise me on how many officers and councillors hold hospitality budgets and how much money these budgets hold? Also, is there a budget set aside for the Annual Council costs in terms of refreshments and food for councillors/officers and guests?
If so, please could you advise who...
I would like a list of all public services that are currently contracted out to the private sector, for example a number of councils currently contract out their waste management to third parties.
I would like to know:
The service which has been contracted out
The name of the company contracted to carry...
1. Who is the office in charge with commercial responsibility for your Management Information System (MIS) in use at your schools? By School MIS I mean products such as Capita SIMS, Serco CMIS, RM Integris, Pearson E1, Bromcom and Walton Samuel. Please provide his or her name, position,...
In the book A-Z of services, translation services are offered to residents. Can you please tell me how much was spent by the council on these services over the past 3 years so that I can get a picture of whether these costs are changing over the years....
I request to know how much Thurrock Council are giving to Your Thurrock internet publication and its Editor Michael Casey....
I am writing to obtain information about the number of council employees allowed to act full time on trade union duties employed by the Council and the total amount of money spent on funding trade union representatives.
1. How many Council employees did you have working full time on trade
union business...
1. Name of your council
2. How is the service supplied (please state which)
i. By directly employed council staff
ii. By directly employed council staff that are part of public - public shared services agreement
iii. By an external contractor
3. Are you currently engaged in a procurement exercise for the provision...
1. How many, if any, Pfi schemes does the authority have - and what are they?
2. For each scheme, how much is the authority paying in total over the life of the Pfi deal?
3. Has the authority started to re-negotiate any of those deals? If so - how...
Would you please forward me the response by Thurrock Council to the Local Government Ombudsman regarding his review of complaint no 09 006 694 against
Thurrock Council
3 February 2010
Millbank Tower...
1. The charges set/to be set for searches of the Local Land Charges Register 1.4.11. to 31.3.12.
2. How the proposed percentage increase/decrease in charges for environmental information compares with increases in other Council budgets i.e. above or below the going rate.
3. The assumptions/projections that informed your...
Older people services: Direct payments
1. Please provide current information on the total number of people within this client group (older people over 65) in receipt of a direct payment on an ongoing basis (i.e. excluding one-off payments) as of December 2010. Please note this information is for direct payments...
In the Thurrock Gazette on the 2/7/10 Cllr. Gupta gives a potential cost of £200,000 for dealing with contaminated plastic bags in the recycling stream.
Please can you provide full details of how this figure was arrived at, including for example the cost per tonne / load etc. for dealing with...
1. Your postal spend in 2009 and 2010 on the following - exact costs where possible or if unavailable please provide estimated costs -
a. 1st class post including number of items
b. 2nd class post including number of items
c. Other postal spend
2. How do you process your...
1. How many issues were made from Thurrock libraries during the previous three financial years (ending 2008, 2009, 2010).
2. I would also like to know the total number of items in stock at the end of the same three financial years...
The number of job losses expected over the next 12 months.
The sum of money expected to be spent on redundancy packages....
I am currently doing my dissertation on Inclusion, including the inclusion of Travellers. I am currently undertaking some observations in Shaw Primary School.
I would really appreciate it if you could contact me regarding numbers of traveller children in thurrock at the moment, which secondary school many of them attend, whether...
1. Is GIS used within your authority?
2. If yes, please provide details of the primary uses - please list.
3. How many users approximately use the GIS system - Less than 30, between 31- 60, Over 60?
4. Which GIS system is currently used?
5. What...
Information that is needed for us for building a new pizza shop (delivery only) in Aveley Area RM15 4BX . It would be helpful if you could provide with the following details. They are:
A . Council house
B . Home owners
C . Industrial People
D . Elders &...
I am interested in the amounts paid by each school in Thurrock LEA to third parties in relation to temporary staffing cover. My hope is to receive an electronic breakdown of amounts paid through the department's purchase ledger by school.
1. I would like the...
I would be grateful if you could provide me with full details of all costs and savings, existing and projected, which will result from the relocation of the Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation and its staff into Thurrock Council offices in Grays.
I would like to see costs and savings...
Please list all the celebrity speakers paid to attend council functions for the years:
2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/2008, 2009/2010, 2010/2011.
For each of those celebrity speakers, please provide details of how much was paid to the speaker or to his or her agency/agent for their attendance....
Under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976, each Local Authority in England, Scotland and Wales is responsible for issuing (or denying) licenses to private keepers of certain wild animals, including most primates, and renewing (or not) such licenses every two years. Because the government does not keep a central...
1. Name of respondent
2.How many blue badges do you currently have on issue?
3. How many badges did you issue 2009?
4. How many badges did you issue in 2010?
5. How many reports of misuse did you have in 2009?
6. How many reports of misuse did you have in 2010?
7. How many...
1. Please supply any information you hold on the incidence of people living in residential care catering for themselves instead of eating the residential home's food.
2. Please indicate how the food is funded in such cases; and if such residents are prepaid or...
I would like to request details of any schemes run or supported by the council which promote the use of reusable (non-disposable) nappies, e.g. by providing vouchers or trial packs to mothers.
Firstly, please give details of any such initiatives which the council has run or supported over the past decade,...
Cases of all students who have been removed from a school after being found to be older that the permitted age....
1. What Management Information System (MIS) that has been procured by the council for the current use in its schools? If it has changed in the two last years, please state the previous MIS.
2. As defined in 1 above, when did the council first procure the current MIS?
3. When...
1. What is the council's purchasing policy for school software?
2. Has the council procured software and /or services to enable its maintained schools to provide Online Reporting to parents? Online Reporting means parents are able to have secure online access to information on their child's progress, achievement, attendance...
1. What is the council's purchasing policy for a VLE for its schools?
2. Which VLE has been procured by the council for the current use in its schools? Please state if more than one and if it has changed in the last two years, state the name...
1) On how many occasions in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 have the Trading Standards team used minors (under age of 16) in test purchases in shops or vendors of any type. In each case could the following please be included
a) the date of purchase
b) the name of the shop...
1. How many consultants have the Council employed in the CEO, Legal, Planning and Housing divisions in this Council year?
2. Of the £126,212.82 spent on consultants, how much was spent in the planning division
and how much was spent in the legal division?
3. Am I correct in assuming that as interim...
1. How many misclassifications have resulted from DNA profiling by your Local Police Force?
2. What are the latest figures on i) how many children under the age of 18, have had their fingerprints/ DNA profiles/other biometric data taken in Primary Schools in your area, and of these how many...
Expenditure by the Local Authority on the Building Schools for the Future programme since it began in 2004.
1. The total amount spent on architects' fees for BSF projects; the value of relevant contracts signed with architecture and landscape architecture firms; and the names of those firms.
2. The total amount spent...
Under the Environmental Information Regulations and the Freedom of Information Act could you please detail all firms and organisations with whom the Council have enjoyed a solicitor/client relationship since 2004 or received documents subject to legal professional privilege?
Could you please detail:
1. The date of the appointment and the nature of...
Who made the decision on the remuneration (between the TTGDC & the Council as the Planning service kept the fee income from the TTGDC planning applications submitted to Thurrock Council for registration ) and when was it made. A copy of the meeting notes would be helpful.
Please tell me the...
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