The subject headings below link to the full request details along with the council's response.
1. 2012-13 capital and 2013-14 revenue allocations for funding early education for two year olds from lower income households
a) What amount in pounds have you received from the government for each of the following?:
1.How many new potholes were reported on the roads for which your authority is responsible in each of the last three full financial years and in this financial year to date?
2.How many potholes were repaired in each of the last three full financial years and in this financial year to...
Spending on:
communications / public relations
marketing (including social marketing / behavioural change marketing)
graphic design
web design
internal communications
administration staff directly support the above areas of work in your organisation...
1.For the complete suite of council financial services (transactional banking and investment), which *provider(s) does the Council currently use, and how many individual accounts are held with each listed financial services provider? (2010/11 and 2011/12 financial years).
2.How frequently are the various financial services procured, and when is the existing arrangement...
Questions and subsections about spending and the ethical contract performance on ICT equipments and clothing appareal for staff....
10 Questions regarding health and well-being and Environmental health and how sufficient the funding is.
Will any of the money be used to fund other services such as: social care, education, transport, culture and leisure centers....
5 Questions and sub-sections about IT system and self service/customers portal...
The names of each Learning Disability Social care contract....
1) I ask for a list of ALL authorised foster care companies who can place children into foster care/care.
2) The amount paid to such companies for the placement of each child.
3) How many children were placed into care during the last 6 years
4) How much was paid...
Please can you provide a list of the vehicles that have been towed away by the council in the last three years after they were abandoned.
For each entry can you supply the:
date the vehicle was towed
the make and model of the vehicle
the estimated value of the vehicle
whether the...
1. Do you generate revenue from advertising and sponsorship on council owned assets e.g. roundabouts, lamp post banners and car parks?
2. If you have a contract with a company, who manages this for you and when is it due to expire?
3. How much revenue have you received in the last...
3 Questions relating to Home Education
1)Please could you advise what the annual training budget is for the Local Safeguarding Children Board for the periods of 2012-13 and 2013-14?
2)Please could you also advise what the training budget is for the Children's Workforce Development Unit (or equivalent department) for the same periods, 2012-13 and 2013-14?...
Please could you tell me the amount spent on home education services for the academic year 2011-12. I would be grateful if you could itemise staff costs, administrative/secretarial support costs, and also the total spend on provision of services for home educated children and young people....
Questions regarding the number of arrangements set up in relations to business rates for the last financial year and the financial year to date....
2 Questions regarding debt arrears and debt provision for 2011/12...
3 Questions against officers who have committed benefit fraud....
How many applications for retrospective planning permission for work carried out on residential properties have been received in the last 5 years? (Please provide a separate figure for 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008)
How many retrospective planning applications for work carried out on residential properties were turned down in the...
"Would you please provide me with the average weekly council housing rent in your local authority area for each of the last three years for (1) a one bedroom flat and (2) a two bedroom flat."...
Please could you provide me with information on how much the Council spent; i) on cycling infrastructure (cycle lanes, cycle parking, storage etc) in financial years of 2012, 2011 and 2010 as well as ii) how much the council expects to spend on cycling infrastructure in 2013....
1.) How many school crossing patrol staff (often known as lollipop people) does Thurrock have?
1. Currently (2012/13)
2. In 2011/12
3. In 2010/11
2.) How many school crossing patrol staff (often known as lollipop people) will Thurrock have in 2013/14?
3.) How much did Thurrock pay...
6 Questions in relation to Council Finance
My request relates to your local authority's expenditure. I would like to request:
A clear break down of how much the council has spent on services provided by Common Purpose. This includes any moneys paid to the Common Purpose Charitable Trust, Common Purpose Customised Limited, Common Purpose International and Common Purpose...
1. Are sight tests carried out as part of the recruitment process for Civil Enforcement Officers?
2. Are sight tests carried out regularly whilst they are in post to ensure that they are able to perform their job satisfactorily?...
4 Questions in relation to Street Services and Ground Maintenance...
2 questions in relation to Thurrock's Christmas Tree...
4 questions in relaton to "qualified social workers", i.e. practitioners holding a recognised social work qualification and registered with a national regulator....
Questions in relation to voice risk assesment
Council Expenditure in areas
4 Questions in relation Independent Living Fund
6 questions in relation to council tax
Several Questions in relation to technologies and systems used by Thurrock Council...
Please send me details of all pet shops licensed to sell puppies within your borough. Could you please send me details of the license holder, suppliers to the premises and also any inspection reports for the premises....
1.The cost of supplying broadband to each school within the remit of the county council. Please state the school name with address, postcode, cost of Internet circuit and where the circuit goes to. E.g from school x to county hall network centre.
2.Any other costs to the council that form part...
In the financial year (1) 2009/10 (2) 2010/2011 (3) 2011/2012 how much was spent by your organisation on providing foreign language translation services for (a) written communications (b) verbal communications (c) in total? [If you are unable to breakdown the costs into verbal and written, I would still require the...
17 Questions in relation to local leisure areas
18 questions in relation to council tax
4 questions in relation to Media and Performing Arts Areas....
Please can you provide a breakdown of your local authorities spending on SEN Tribunals for each year from 2005 (or from the most recent year in which figures are available) to present....
My question is in relation to instances where an independent school has been named in a finalised and agreed Statement of Special Educational Needs (in Part 4).
Please confirm the current number of instances where the Parents pay the "regular" termly fees and the Authority pays the remainder of the...
Please could you kindly provide the following information with figures for each of the financial years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12 and up until 31 October in 2012/13.
1.How many 16 and 17 year old approached the council with housing needs?
2.How many of the 16 and 17 year olds with housing...
1. The number of external organisations (for instance, private investigators) commissioned to undertake surveillance under the provisions of RIPA
2. The number of external organisations (for instance, private investigators) commissioned to undertake surveillance.
3. The names of the contractors commissioned to undertake surveillance
4. The total amount paid to the contractors commissioned...
What was your net expenditure for short breaks services for children aged 0-18 with a learning disability in
a) 2009/10
b) 2010/11
c) 2011/12
d) what was the agreed budget figure for 2012/13?...
6 questions in relation to care packages
19 questions in relation to broadband at Thurrock
questions regarding local authority transactions
4 questions in relation to telecommunication systems used by Thurrock Council....
Full details of reports received of female pupils
a) having suffered;
b) suspected to have suffered or
c) believed to be at risk of suffering
female genital mutilation...
Several questions regarding Thurrock Councils Technology and its providers....
Q - Please could you let me know if you have responded to the Governments consultation on the proposed closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF)....
On how many occasions since the start of this calendar year has your authority paid a casual worker or a consultant at a rate in excess of £500-per-day (excluding VAT)?
For each occasion provide the daily rate of pay, the job that they were employed to do and the name of...
1) How many enforcement actions have Thurrock Council taken against fence/wall boundary treatments in the last 4 years.
a. How many of these were within a conservation area ( in particular East Tilbury Conservation area)
b. How...
Please could you provide the details below for all Hackney Carriage and Private Hire (taxis) currently licensed to operate within Thurrock.
I would specifically like the license number, car registration number, taxi company for which the driver/vehicle operates under (i.e. what trading name is displayed), and the maximum number of passengers....
Under the freedom of information act I am requesting information on non-self-drive cars owned or leased by your council (ie cars owned or leased for the purpose of driving/chauffeuring elected members and/or council staff).
1. Specifically may I be informed of the number of cars leased or owned by your council...
"What is the council rent on all your properties?
What is the Average rent on your homes broken-down to type i.e. House, flat, bungalow and break down the amount of bedrooms for these properties? And,
Is there a different charge to the location i.e. Tilbury/Grays/Ockendon for the rents due?"...
Please provide a list of motor vehicles owned or leased to the council.
Please include; Fleet number (if used), Make, Model and Body Type. Also can you let me know how these vehicles are maintained? in house or out sourced maintenance....
3 questions regarding Park Home Sites
10 questions in relation to job financies
In the last financial year 2011/2012 please provide me with the number of settlements and the total amount paid as compensation to teachers or teaching assistants for injuries sustained at schools or outside schools. For each incident please provide me with (i) the amount of compensation, (ii) the costs...
3 questions in relation to Campion RC School
12 questions in relation to council tax
1) How many qualified Solicitors/Barristers do you employ as legal fee earners or in a fee earning/management capacity?
Please provide the numbers in full time equivalents and include any temporary or agency staff
2) How many other fee earners do you employ? (qualified, part qualified or non-qualified fee earners, e.g. Legal...
13 Questions in relation to young people services
Under paragraph 47 of the National Planning Policy Framework, Thurrock Borough Council is required to have a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide five years worth of housing against their housing requirements, plus 5% or 20% depending on the council's delivery record.
1) Is Thurrock Borough Council required...
6 questions in relation to Local funding for disabled facilities...
11 Questions in relation to council funding
1) How many people received adult care funding between 1st January 2011 and 15th August 2011?
2) How many people received adult care funding between 1st January 2012 and 15th August 2012?
3) What was the total spend on adult care between 1st January 2011 and 15th August 2011?
4)What...
10 questions in relation to funding for early year services and family activities....
We are interested in theatres in your area and whether they receive any rate relief under section 47 Local Government Finance Act 1988. Please accept this email as an application under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for particulars of all theatres in your area which receive rate relief....
The information I request is around how much you pay monthly (or annually) for leased, hired or loaned vehicles.
Information requirements:
Make
Model
What the total price includes ie. Insurance, servicing etc.
Purchase type ie. purchase, lease, hired
Scheme duration (if applicable)
Actual monthly/annual/purchase price
In addition to the above:
How many lease cars are...
1 - How many people work within the Planning Department (Development Management and Forward Planning and Specialists, including administrative support)?
2 - Number of Full-Time and Part-Time employees.
3 - List the job titles of all persons and the number of people with the job title(s).
4 - Number of specialists directly employed...
Please provide the following information
4 questions regaring bus services and its routes
7 Questions in relation to financial statistics /Payments....
4 questions in relation to council threshold
1) Your highest paid employee
2) Your lowest paid directly-employed employee
3) Your lowest paid agency worker or external contractor worker...
4 questions in relation to financial statistics.
Underage sales of alcohol from off-licensed premises questionaire by test purchase results, test purchase outcomes and test purchaes by trade sector for 09/10, 10/11, 11/12....
For the year 2010/11 (or if that years information is not available an earlier year). Please supply the following information:
For On Street Parking only
1) PCNS Issued (number)
2) PCNs Paid (number)
3) % collected (number)
4) Cancelled or written off (number)
5) % cancelled (number)
6) Total unpaid (number)
7) % unpaid (number)
8) Income (amount)
9)...
1. How many families were returned as living with five out seven multiple disadvantages - which include no parent in the family is in work, family lives in poor quality or overcrowded housing, no parent has any qualifications, mother has mental health problems, at least one parent has a...
12 question relation to in sourcing
Several questions in relation to pupil referral units....
6 questions regarding fly tipping and litter and services that do this work....
6 questions regarding children with learning disabilities short break statistics....
7 questions in relation to childcare funding
I am doing a survey into the number of registered tattoo artists in the UK and would appreciate if you could furbish me with the number of registered artists in you area.
Has there also been an increase in registrations over the past five years and if possible could you give...
I am writing to ask if you have departments within your organisation that deal specifically with 'Energy Saving' and also with 'Sustainability'.
Could you also provide a list detailing:
a.. Number of employees in these fields.
b.. Specific Job Titles and Salary for each.
c.. Annual Budget for...
4 questions in relation to expenditure on social care....
2 questions in relation to councils financial statistics....
3 Questions regarding Preferred Providers and Commissioning Services...
6 questions in relation to local authority and its services...
1)How many charities in total on 1/1/2011 rented council property?
2)How many currently rent council property?
3)How many charitable organisations been evicted from council property since 1/1/2011?
4)Has the council cut the reduced rent scheme to any extent and if so by how much?
5)If the answer to (4) is yes:
i) By how much...
Details of funding cuts applied to services under the council's
2011/12 budget (and any service reviews concluded in due course) that were funded through the Supporting People budget in 2010/11, where that funding cut relates to overall local and/or central government funding cuts (including internal efficiency drives to meet savings targets...
. What estimate does Thurrock Council make of the total number of:
(a) youth clubs;
(b) sports clubs; and
(c) after school clubs
in the area...
I would like to request details of all your current insurance contract(s). I am therefore writing to make an open government request for information to which I am entitled to under the Freedom of Information Act.
In particular, I am interested in the following information:-
Insurance details required:
Insurance Supplier...
My request is to do with Information Technology and I require contractual information regarding the Council's PBX maintenance contracts please can you send me the following information:-
Commercial premises around Grays with a late night licence to supply alcohol, late night refreshment and entertainment...
I understand that the Traffic Management Dept of the council has a comprehensive list of Disabled Parking Bays in the whole area. Our organisation the Coalition for Independent Living CIC is setting up local peer brokerage franchises across England (see our website www.c-i-l.org.uk for full details). With these franchises...
Please provide me with copies of all communications from the council to local schools sent since the start of 2011 which contained advice, information and guidance on how to deal with strikes by teachers. This should include any advice from the council on whether schools should stay open when teachers...
1. Do you keep records of how many people assessed as needing residential long-term care have capital above the capital threshold and are therefore financially assessed as self-funding?
2. If YES, Please give a figure for the number of people in each of the financial years 2009-10 and 2010-11 that were...
Please release all correspondence ,e-mails and notes detailing communications that l;ocal authorities would need to secure 50% of the funding of broadband
please release details of plans ,provisions and budgets that your local authority has made to ensure financing of the scheme
please release details of assesments you have made...
Could you provide by email the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:-
a) A list of all addresses and rateable values for properties up to a rateable value threshold of £12,000
b) A list of all addresses, up to a rateable value threshold value of £12,000, where...
1. How much money have you made in the past year (June 2010 - present day) by selling the recycling your residents have left out? (not just outside homes)
2. How much money did you make in the previous year (June 2009 - June 2010) by selling the recycling your residents...
Could you [Councillor Kent] please respond, whether you will be again be requesting of Mr Newman, that your email of the 7 July - be responded to in full in respect of the five buildings inside the planning boundary, in respect of size, location and how they each...
1.How many employees were in receipt of (ECUA) Essential Car Users Allowance?
2.When were all ECU's driving licences and insurances checked, if so, by whom?
3.When were endorsements checked, if so, by whom?
4.Were logs checked and kept by the authority, if so, by whom?
5.When and were periodic health checks of ECU's drivers...
16 questions in relation to schools and meals.
several questions regarding young people & elderly people...
2 questions regarding local schools/forms of educations in area....
1.Has the authority made any compulsory redundancies from 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011?
2.Please provide the number of employees (headcount) by gender taking a) voluntary early retirement; b) voluntary redundancy and c) made compulsorily redundant from 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011.
Please count only those employees...
1. Please tell me your standard charges (assuming that the client is paying full price, having over £23,250 capital) for the following domiciliary services to those aged over 65:
a. Personal care (e.g. getting up, washing, getting dressed etc) - hourly rate.
b. Domestic help (e.g. shopping, laundry etc.) - hourly rate(s).
c....
Please tell me how many people (councillors, staff, and co-opted members of
council committees) who left the council's payroll have still been paid in the last three years, and what the total amount of money paid is....
7 questions regarding social workers & employment....
3 questions in relation to local libary services.
I would be grateful if you would provide a breakdown of the amount written off by the council in unpaid debts over the following three financial years: 2008/9; 2009/10; 2010/2011.
Please provide this broken down for each year by type of debt:
including council tax, business rates, parking fines,...
4 questions regarding pension schemes
Please could you provide the following details regarding each time a payment has been made to an employee who has been injured or made ill at work.
I would like details for payments made where a civil action has been launched, where a civil action has been threatened and where ex-gratia...
Who currently supplies the authority with both vehicle rental and vehicle leasing services, together with the monetary value of these contracts and expiry dates...
6 questions regarding savings.
3 questions in relation to housing & housing stock....
Thank you for your request for the following information:
a) Please provide a copy of any report submitted by Licensing officers to the Head of Function or any Council body to request authority to implement the most recently revised scale of fees.
b) Please provide a copy of the financial...
I am interested in the amounts paid by each Pupil Referral Unit in your Local Authority directly on supply cover (as recorded for Consistant Financial Reporting purposes under code E02) and also to third parties in relation to agency supply staff (as recorded for Consistant Financial Reporting purposes under code...
In accordance with the provisions specified within the above Act we hereby request that you provide the following information or an update of the information since the last request which was submitted 04/12/2011. All information requested relates to Business Rates.
Required Information;- A list of all live business rates accounts...
4 questions in relation to social workers.
1. How much was charged for the following services? Please provide information for the 2011/12, 2010/11 and 2009/10 financial years.
2. What was the total income from fees and charges for the following services? Please provide information for the 2010/11 and 2009/10
3. What is the budgetted income from fees and charges...
I write today for information for the Second Reading of Justin Tomlinson MP's Developer Bonds Bill. The First Reading was in October 2010.
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would be grateful if your Local Authority could supply me with answers to the following questions:
4 questions regarding CCTV.
...please can you provide me with the answers to the following questions - where possible including any recharge costs to a central budget and ICT expenditure occurred through public finance initiatives that are off balance sheet.
1 - The total budgeted ICT expenditure (capital and revenue) for your organisation for 2010/11...
3 questions in relation to local entertianment.
How much did Thurrock Council spend on providing translation services in each of the following financiall years: (1) 2008/09, (2) 2009/10, (3) 2010/11....
1. Please could you send us the Tenancy Agreement that the Council currently uses for allotment plots in the Council?
2. Please could you send us the previous Tenancy Agreement for allotment plots in the Council?
3. Was the agreement changed following a public consultation?
4. Please could you send us the documentation...
Please state the price of all parking permits at your local authority broken down by area and length of permit for each of the financial years 08/09, 09/10 and 10/11.
Please state the number of permits issued to council employees by your local authority broken down by area and length of...
1) For each of the years 2001 - 2011 please could you let me know the total amount of section 106 monies spent by your authority.
2) For each of the years 2001 - 2011 please could you let me know the total amount of money attached to section 106 agreements...
I would like to know the following information as it applies in the financial year 2011-2012:
1.Please tell me in which cases your council charges people to make payments by credit card or by debit card. These could include but are not limited to payment of
a.council tax
b.parking tickets
c.dog...
3 questions regarding funding allocation.
1. How much did your council spend on carrying out recycling collections in the financial years 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011?
2. How much revenue did your council raise from recycling collections by selling the items saved by householders in the financial years 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011?...
1) How many full time development planners, conservation officers and heritage officers did you employ in 2008?
2) How many do you employ now?
3) Are there any plans to change this number in the next two years
4) What was your planning department's budget in 2008
5) What is your planning department's budget...
1.How much does the Thurrock Council spend on recruitment advertising in the press and online media?
a. and why does it spend anything when it has its own recruitment web area?
2.Whether the Thurrock Council can forward me its Disability Equality Duty report as a pdf file?...
Would you please advise the total value of payments made by the council in
financial years 2008 - 2009; 2009 - 2010 and 2010 - 2011 to each of the
following organisations?
1.Local Government Information Unit, Company number 0187 2218
2.Partnership Media Group Ltd, Company Number 03307092; VAT
Number 686 2779 74. (Partnership...
1.In 2010/2011 how much money did the local authority receive/is due to receive from businesses with which it has a registed Primary Authority Partnership?
2. For 2010/2011 please list each individual Primary Authority Partnership, the amount of money received/due to be received and state what the money was paid to the...
1) How much did your Council spend for the financial year 2009/2010 and 2010/2011, on taxis for school children to Pupil Referral Units?
2) Please state the shortest taxi journey and longest taxi journey where the destination of the pupil is a referral unit and what is the cost of...
I wish to make a Freedom of Information Act request in relation to the vehicles which the council own. Please let me know:
10 questions in relation to council tax.
How many teachers had a salary in excess of (1) £75,000 (2) £100,000 in your area for each of the financial years 2010/11 and 2011/12 and what was the salary of the highest paid individual each year?...
Please can you provide me with 2011/12 school spend data you have available, I would prefer to receive the information in excel spreadsheet form with considerable focus on 2011/12 school spend including E1-E31 including Capital expenditure CE01, CE04 and E26....
Can you please tell me the names of the companies in your area that you have investigated in the past month? Specifically the names of the companies who have not complied with trading standards legislation.
Can you tell me the exact grievance made against the company and what action was taken...
5 detailed questions on Trading Standards
1) Budget per head of local population for last 3 financial years.
2) Number of posts deleted for last 3 financial years
3) Number of Trainee/Student posts deleted in last 3 financial years
4) List of services currently provided & ceased proving at any time since January 2010
5)...
7 questions regarding how much is spent on gypsies/travlers in the local area....
7 questions in relation to council property value and various statistics....
Please could you give me your basic foster care allowance for 0-4 year olds for 2012/13?...
6 questions in relation to how much has been spent on refurbisment on council properties....
Can you please tell me how much the council spent on specialist and out of hours repairs the two years before the contract was awarded to Morrisons...
I am interested in the amounts paid by each school in your Local Authority directly on supply cover (as would be recorded for Consistent Financial Reporting purposes under code E02) and also to third parties in relation to agency supply staff (as would be recorded for Consistent Financial Reporting purposes...
On 21 March, the Social Work Reform Board approved proposals for the implementation of an assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) for social workers from September 2012. However, it is not compulsory for social work employers to offer the ASYE. To that end, under the Freedom of Information Act...
1. Full organisational chart including all departments (including Job titles, Departments, Full Names and Extension numbers)
2. Information stating your annual spend on recruitment agencies (for Financial Years 2010/2011 and 2011/2012)
3. Information stating your annual spend on consultancies (for Financial Years 2010/2011 and 2011/2012)...
Q1) Please provide me with the number of home adaptations that your Council carried out using the Disabled Facilities Grant in 2009/10, 2010/11, and 2011/12....
15 questions regarding the local authority and its costs....
5 questions regarding hot meals in schools around the local area....
1. In the last financial year 2011/12 how many incidents did your authority record where refuse collectors were assaulted by members of the public while carrying out council duties? Please give a brief description of the circumstances of the incident.
2. How many working days were lost by refuse collectors...
1. Support provided pursuant to your powers under section 17 Children Act 1989 ("CA 1989")
Accommodation support
a) Please state how many have families subject to immigration control you have provided accommodation for in the past 2 years (giving a break-down per year) pursuant to your...
7 questions regarding Foster Care Payments.
3 questions regarding Alternative Provision Funding to pay for FE Courses or SEN support....
I wish to know the total spend on production of private hire and hackney
carriage driver's licenses in the years inclusive 2006 to 2012 including
officers time, D.V.L.A checks and C.R.B checks as well as the cost of
materials....
6 questions regarding the tranport services in thurrock....
I am requesting the total budget spent on 0-5 year olds broken down by type...
REQUEST FOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION BILL - UNIT 15, MANORWAY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, CURZON DRIVE, GRAYS RM17 6BG...
In accordance with the above Act could I put you to the trouble of providing details of all properties benefiting from mandatory charitable relief in respect of payment of Business Rates.
The information I require would be the Ratepayer name, address, and the period from which the relief has...
I am interested in the amounts paid by each school within your
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 information in electronic format. This should
avoid any printing...
Three questions in relation to housing.
10 Questions in relation to local authorities pay policies....
"I would like to request the following under the Freedom of Information Act.
1.What is the total value of commuted sums* (accepted from developers in lieu of on-site affordable housing provision outlined in section 106 agreements) agreed by the council and developers in:
2011-12
2010-11
2009-10 2008-09
2.How many affordable homes which should have been...
1.Figures for the total amount of money (in cash terms) lost to the local authority last year (2011/12) and for each of the previous three years (2008/09, 2009/10, and 2010/11) resulting from unpaid tenant rents, council tax and business rates.
2.Estimates of outstanding unpaid tenant rents, council tax and business...
10 questions regarding housing.
I am requesting from you all information you have on parking restrictions in thurrock park way in the last 10 years including minutes of all meetings, correspondence with any company or individual concerned. Details of costs and any monetary contributions from any one but council bodies.
The information overleaf is supplied...
Six Questions regarding Parking and its permits around the thurrock area....
How much Section 106 agreement money does the council currently hold?
Since 2005, what is the longest length of time that the council has held Section 106 money?
How much Section 106 money has the council had to return in since 2005?
How much was returned in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011?...
Five questions regarding claims and compensation.
Please supply me with the details of the standard payment terms your council employs in dealings with its suppliers...
Two tables regarding Care commissioned by the Council from independent and voluntary sector providers & Paid as Direct Payments to service users...
6 questions in relation to the expenditure in Adult Social Care on people with Dementia...
1.For each of the last five years, the total headcount of staff at the beginning of the calendar year (or fiscal year if you cannot provide this) and the total number of posts that were vacant at that date. By 'vacant' we mean including posts which would be filled if...
3 questions in relation to the older people's self funding threshold...
Please detail how much Thurrock Council has paid to companies other than Morrison (for example Fleetwood Building Maintenance LTD) for repairs to council houses since Morrison was awarded the contract in 2010....
3 questions in relation to the funding of Adult Care Homes...
1. How many empty properties are currently under the control of the local authority in its area?
2. Please confirm if there is a list of these properties which is available publicly.
3. If there is such a register please confirm how such a register can be...
Two questions regarding the Early Intervention Grant...
"Under the Freedom of Information Act, please provide me with answers to the questions about the Disabled Facilities Grant included in the attached questionnaire."...
1. How much money does your council currently hold in a suspense account where it believes money was paid automatically by the estate of a dead person, or somebody that has moved away from your area, but you have been unable to trace them or...
Please can you provide me with the total annual training budget for
Children's and Young People's Social Service's for the financial
years:
a) 2009 -2010
b) 2010 -2011
c) 2011 -2012
d) 2012 -2013...
How much did your authority pay in pension strain charges in respect of early retirements and retirements on ill-health grounds of employees in the financial years 2008/9, 2009/10, and 2010/11?
How many early and ill-health retirements required the payment of pension strain charges in the financial years 2008/9, 2009/10, and 2010/11?...
1. Please detail any alterations to eligibility criteria enacted since March 2011
2. If the council has not enacted alterations to eligibility criteria since March 2011, please detail any alterations to eligibility criteria enacted since March 2009
If the council has enacted...
1.Please tell me how much funding your local authority received in 2009-10, 2010-11 and how much you are expecting for 2011 - 2012 from Central Government towards respite care/short breaks?
2. Please tell me how much on your local authority spent, is spending and intends to spend on providing additional hours...
Please provide the total amount of compensation money paid out to staff as a result of violence by, or attacks from, school pupils in the past three financial years (April 1 2008 to March 31 2011).
Please could this total include all payments regardless of whether legal proceedings took place or...
For 2010:
a) How many redundancies were made last year?
b) How many people aged up to 29 were made redundant?
c) How many people aged 30-39 were made redundant?
d) How many people aged 40-49 were made redundant?
e) How many people aged 50-59 were made redundant?
f) How many people...
How many Thurrock Council employees had not been paid in the month of December 2010 because of adverse weather, based on gender (how many men, how many women).
Of those not paid, how many based on gender, did not have Thurrock's holiday and time off policy applied to them, specifically...
1. The total funding budgeted by the council (including central government funds routed via the council) for supplementary schools and extended schools (including those run by schools themselves and those run by other entities) during 2010/11, prior to the impact of any in-year funding cuts following the national...
Please could you supply an answer to the following question:
1) What is the total amount of Section 106 money RECEIVED by your authority since 2001? (Please include ALL monies - ie include any monies subseqently passed onto County Councils). Please note: I do not require a year by...
Please could you tell me, under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, the total funding budgeted by the council in 2011/12 for services funded through the Supporting People grant in 2010/11.
The requested funding details include any services newly funded in 2011/12 that fall within the pre-2011 ringfenced Supporting...
1. Please tell me how much compensation money has been paid to your staff as a result of accidents at work in the past five financial years (1 April 2006 - 31 March 2011)
Please also break this down per accident, giving details of
a) the accident
b) injuries sustained...
Would you please advise the total value of payments made by the council in financial years 2008 - 2009; 2009 - 2010 and 2010 - 2011 to each of the following organisations?
1. Local Government Information Unit, Company number 0187 2218
2. Partnership Media Group Ltd, Company Number 03307092; VAT
Number 686 2779...
1. How many people with learning disabilities received direct payments in the last financial year? (i.e. 1st April 2010 - 31st March 2011).
2. What is the total spend on direct payments for people with learning disabilities by the local authority in the last financial year? (i.e. 1st April 2010...
1. The number of street lights run by the local authority.
2. The current arrangements for turning off or dimming streets lights overnight including the number of lights affected and the hours that apply.
3. The saving of any arrangement in 2 above.
4. The cost of switching off or dimming street lights...
1) Which banks does the council hold accounts with? Please provide a list.
2) How much did the council pay in bank charges in each of the last 3 financial years (2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11)? Please provide a breakdown by bank for each year....
1. How much does the Thurrock Council spend on recruitment advertising in the press and online media?
a. and why does it spend anything when it has its own recruitment web area?
2. Whether the Thurrock Council can forward me its Disability Equality Duty report as a pdf file?...
"For 2010/11;
1. The number of council stock properties that were sold under the right to buy scheme.
2. The total income received as a result of the sales.
3. Details of how this income has been distributed (is happy for this info to be given in %).
4. Confirmation of where this information...
This is a freedom of information request surrounding "Specific PCT allocations for social care", which were allocated as part of the 2011/12 NHS Operating Framework.
1. How much did the government say you would be receiving?
2. How much have you received?
3. Will the money received be spent...
I am seeking information from your Council regarding budgetary provision for specified matters in the last three complete financial years under Freedom of Information legislation.
Please complete attached questionnaire....
Please could you give me your basic foster care allowance for 0-4 year olds for 2010/11 and 2011/12....
1)A copy of the authorities 'code of practice' on bailiffs, sheriff officers or messengers-at-arms
2)A copy of the contract held between the Local Authority and the bailiffs, sheriff officers or messengers-at-arms
3)Details of whether the Local Authority has internal bailiffs, sheriff officers or messengers-at-arms, or utilises external bailiffs, sheriff officers or messengers-at-arms;
4)If...
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. For the years
April 08-09; 09-10; 10-11 and 2011 to date please let me know:
a) Numbers of people committed to prison for non-payment of council
tax, broken down by gender
b) Numbers who paid on committal and were therefore released, broken
down by gender
c)...
Could you please state whether any facility time payments were made by the council relating to activity by these three unions (NUT, NASUWT, ATL) and if so, how much?
Please provide this information in relation to the latest year for which figures are available....
Please can you quantify your Council's expenditure during the 2010-2011 financial year on EACH of the following, -
First, Adopted Child Support Allowance
Second, Grants to Adoptive Parents to purchase furniture, equipment, etc, prior to the adopted children's arrival.
Third, prospective Adoptive Parents expenses,...
All ICT Contracts relating to mobiles phones please can you send me:-
a. Supplier(s) Name(s)
b. Total Contract Value
c. Duration
d. Expiry Date
e. Number of Users/Handsets
f. Contract Review Date
g. Contact/job title responsible for this contract...
We wish to obtain the information, from the Council, relating to unclaimed Credit Balances. We are aware that all Billing Authorities hold on account sums of money that are due to be returned to ratepayers and for a variety of reasons have not been repaid and maybe considered untraceable by...
1) How many staff has the council made redundant in the last 18 months?
2) How many consultants have been hired by the council in the last 18 months?
3) Out of these consultants, how many were former council staff?
4) How much did these consultants cost the council?...
I would like as much information as you are able to provide, so if you can only able to partially answer some of these questions please do still return the information to me.
In cases where you do not have an answer to the question please state: unknown.
1. If you...
I am writing in the hope that you can help me with a project I am doing to try and understand how Waste, Recycling and Environmental Cleansing works. I have been reading Thurrock Council's website and have found it most informative. There are some things that I still...
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act I would like to request details relating to the adaptation of homes using the Disabled Facilities Grant.
In particular, I would like to request the following information:
1. The total council expenditure on adaptations to council properties using the disabled facilities grant in...
I would like to know the percentage contribution rates the council as an employer pays into the superannuation funds of its employees. I would also like to know what the contribution rates are for employees to the same funds. I would like the information broken down between contribution rates for...
Under the Freedom of Information Act please release any costs to the council relating to visits to the area by any member of the Royal Family in the past year. If additional clarification is required please let me know....
I am writing to request details under the Freedom of Information Act on GPC Visa purchasing cards spending. I am requesting a copy of transaction data held by the authority through Management Information systems showing basic/Level 1, Level 2 or Level 3 data for all cards over a period of...
Please sent me the salary and job description for your council's FOI officer or whoever deals with FOIs as part of their role....
1. On what date did the council launch its consultation on its adult social care budget for 2011-12, or services changes connected to it?
2. On what date did the council close its consultation on its adult social care budget for 2011-12, or services changes connected to it?
3....
Please could you proceed to provide information as per my initial request for those of Director status and above.
1. Please provide details relating to your authority's involvement in, and attendance at, award ceremonies during 2010-11, including the amount paid for each event (or the amount outstanding if...
Could I put you to the trouble of providing details of the credits held on your records for ratepayers in respect of payment of Business Rates.
The information I require would be the Ratepayer name, address, credit amount and the financial year the credit sits in. This would only...
1. What is your role within the Adult Social Services, Procurement, Commissioning or Finance department?
2. What recorded changes to the roles of members of Adult Social Services, Procurement, Commissioning and Finance departments have been due to the introduction of Individual Care Budgets (Personalisation)?
3. What reports were submitted by your local...
1. The total net spend by the Council on the provision and subsidy of school meals in the 2009/10 and 2010/11 financial years.
2. The projected net spend by the Council on the provision and subsidy of school meals in the 2011/12 financial year.
3. The weekly price charged to parents for...
1) Please provide your council's general reserve minimum limit as budgeted for 2011-12) expressed:
a. As a percentage of the Council's overall net revenue expenditure.
b. In cash terms
2) Has the Council's general reserve minimum limit as a percentage of the council's overall net revenue expenditure changed in 2011-12 compared to 2010-11;...
How much did the council spend on consultants in financial years, 2008/09 and 2009/10?
Please can you give details, in each year, of the consultants used by the council, for what purpose and how much each company was paid for the particular projects undertaken?...
Please indicate:
1. Where the Accounts Receivable team is based and if centralised?
2. Which finance system/accounting software they use to process customers invoices/payments?
3. Number of cash allocators and credit controllers employed full time to reconcile cash and match payments to the sales ledger?
4. How many customers do you have?
5. How many...
Please could you tell me how much motorists overpaid for parking using pay and display machines for the last financial year for which figures are available....
1. In the last financial year (10/11) how much money did you pay to students, who attended school under your authority's responsibility, as compensation for personal injuries?
2. How many individual claims did this represent?
3. For all payments in excess of £2,000 please state the amount of compensation...
1) Overall budget:
a. What was the budget for your local authority in 2009/10?
b. What was the budget for your local authority in 2010/11?
c. What is the budget for your local...
If the local authority is responsible for the adult mental health social care budget, I am looking for information regarding the county council budgets for 2011-12 and 2010-11.
I would be grateful if you could provide;
(1)The directorate breakdown of the total budget, to the nearest £1000 and as a...
I request a list of all Non-Domestic rate accounts that are currently overpaid or in credit.
Will you please include the following;
1. A list of mental health services contracted out / outsourced by Thurrock Council to private organisations (for profit organisations);
2. A list of mental health services contracted out / outsourced by Thurrock Council to voluntary / charitable or not for profit organisations within your geographical area and the names of...
1. How much money did your authority spend on consultants in the financial year 2010/11?
2. How many days of consultancy did your authority pay for in the financial year 2010/11?
3. What was the highest daily rate that you paid to an individual consultant in the financial year 2010/11?...
1. What amount of income has your authority received for social care?
2. Can you confirm that all of this money has been spent on social care?
3. What proportion of this money has been spent on frontline social care services?
4. How much money has been transferred to...
Please can you give me details of the teachers within your authority who earn more than £150,000 a year.
Where this is applicable, please state the total amount paid to the teacher over the last two years, including annual salary and any additional payments (such as bonus).
Please also give...
1. If a debtor pays the Council direct the total amount due to the Council plus any bailiff fees that they have incurred, the Council will forward the fees to the bailiff.
If a debtor only pays the amount of Council Tax due and not the fees that they have...
1. What total revenue did you receive
i) in the financial year 2009-2010 and
ii) what is the budgeted figure for 2010/11 (as set before the year commenced) and
iii) 2011/12 for each of:
a) Off-street car parks
b) On-street parking (meters, pay & display etc)
c) Parking permits (residents' and other).
d) Other...
I would like to know how many dog waste bins there are within your area.
How much it costs to have them emptied and would it be possible for you to forward me the email address of the person in charge of the landscape division, or who ever deals with the...
Question 1:
Before an NQT is assessed by a School or/and any decision is made by the Local Educational Authority regarding its induction period, could you confirm that they has to be an existence of a contract of employment between both parties?
Question 2:
Could you also confirm that such contract goes beyond...
I would like to know the cost of employing consultants to bring the waste and recycling contract back in house and the ongoing cost of employing a interim contract manager on the said contract....
I would be grateful if you could disclose:
1. A full list of Third Sector Organisations that received either grant or project funding during financial year April 2011 - March 2012
2. The value of that funding, by organisation/project
3. By organisation, whether the grant or project funding will cease or be reduced...
CCTV
1) The total number of CCTV cameras controlled by your council on 21st March 2011.
MICRO-CHIPPED BINS
1) Does the council conduct weekly or fortnightly rubbish collections?
2) Has the council installed microchips in any of the rubbish containers of its residents?
3) Is the council currently monitoring data provided by microchips installed in...
Please would you be able to provide the fee's and charges for 2011/12 for the follow area's (see table below) as part of the Freedom of Information Act.
Children's
School music - tuition fees, instrument hire, Outdoor education fees, School meals.
Adult's
Meals on wheels, Adult education tuition fees, Home care services rate per...
1. The make and model of the vehicle used for the Mayor's and/or Chairman's and/or Leader of the Council's official engagements.
2. The cost of the chauffeur/driver employed to drive said vehicle during official engagements.
3. The registration mark (i.e. number plate) attached to said vehicle.
4. Copy correspondence in...
1) What level of funding has been agreed by your Authority to fund the Local Involvement Network for your authority's area for the period 2011-12?
2) From the budget agreed to fund the Local Involvement Network for 2011-2012, what amount of money will be retained by the Council for contract...
Please provide the following information in respect of the properties listed below for the period: 01/04/2002 - 31/03/2005:
The ratepayer name(s) if the ratepayer was/is a limited company
The period for which each ratepayer is liable for business rates at the property
Address: KNIGHT OF AVELEY, DERRY AVENUE,
SOUTH OCKENDON, ESSEX, RM15 5DZ...
1. A copy of your section 251 budget statement for 2010/11 and 2011/12. Please include a full breakdown for both years.
2. What funding was provided to education hearing support services for deaf/hearing impaired children in 2010/11 and what funding has been allocated for 2011/12?
3. In 2010/11, was there any reduction...
A list of individual services that will be funded with money from the council's Early Intervention Grant over the course of the financial year starting April 2011. Please specify in pounds sterling, how much money has been committed to each service....
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
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 request to know how much Thurrock Council are giving to Your Thurrock internet publication and its Editor Michael Casey....
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...
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...
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...
1. How much did your authority budget for highways maintenance in the past financial year (2010-11) and the previous one (2009-2010)?
2. How much did your authority actually spend on highways maintenance in the past financial year (2010-11) and the previous one (2009-2010)?
3. How much is your authority looking to budget...
1. How many claims for damage to cars (or other vehicles) due to potholes have been submitted to the council in each of the last 24 months? (i.e. please breakdown by month)
2. How many of these claims have been successful?
3. How many of these claims were unsuccessful?
4. How many are...
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am formally requesting information regarding business rates accounts.
Please can you provide me with the addresses, rateable values and credits of all properties that have any historic credit on their accounts within your council area....
1. How many consultants have the Council employed in the CEO, Legal, Planning and Housing divisions in this Council year?
2. What are the costs of those consultants to the Council?
3. Are any consultants being 'employed' by the Council now?
4. Where in the Constitution can I find the rules/guidance governing...
Please provide the following information in respect of the properties listed below for the period 1/4/2000-31/3/2005:
The ratepayer name(s)
if the ratepayer was/is a limited company
The period for which each ratepayer is liable for business rates at the property:
1. BRITISH BATA SHOE CO LTD, PRINCESS MARGARET ROAD, EAST TILBURY, GRAYS, ESSEX...
This is a request for Business Rates related information, filed under Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please provide the following information in respect of the properties listed below for the period specified:
UNITS 1/2 GATEWAY 25 INDUSTRIAL ESTATE,
WESTON AVENUE, GRAYS, ESSEX...
What was the remuneration package for the council's chief executive in:
2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2010/2011?
What will the chief executive's remuneration package be for 2011/2012?...
The forecasted cost to the council of a school meal for a secondary school pupil in the year 2011/2012.
Please also provide the forecasted price to be paid by a pupil for a school lunch.
The average cost to the council of a school meal for a secondary school pupil in the...
Can you please tell me the price paid for Development Brief E16 produced in 1997/1998....
Information regarding supply teacher expenditure.
1. From 1 April 2011, what programmes designed to engage specifically with the Muslim community will be funded by the council?
2. What amount of funding will be provided for these programmes?
3. What programmes designed to engage with the Muslim community were funded by the council between 1...
For each of the last 3 financial years: 08/09 09/10 and 10/11 (incomplete).
Has the council received a delayed discharge grant from the Department of Health in any of the last 3 financial years? If so, how much was the grant each year?
How many reimbursements have been paid by the council...
1. In relation to money paid out in salary, bonuses and overtime to refuse collectors in your area, please state the 10 highest annual amounts for the years 2008/09 year and the 2009/10 year. For the three biggest amounts in each year please state what proportion of the total...
1. For persons benefitting from local authority funding, what is the fee to be paid by the council for elderly persons placed in residential care within the independent sector during the financial year 2011/2012?
2. What is the corresponding fee for the financial year 2010/2011?
3. In the current...
1. How many IT Staff are employed within the council (approx)?
2. The budget spent on IT last year, and expenditure so far this year. With breakdowns of this expenditure.
3. The name of the councils IT Director & contact details
4. When suppliers work with a council is there any special processes...
1. A copy of any letters and/or emails sent from the council's Chief Executive and/or Finance Director addressed to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles regarding council budgets in the last six months (from June 1st 2010 to present date).
2. A copy of any replies received from Communities Secretary Eric Pickles...
Amount paid by each school in Thurrock in relation to temporary staffing cover.
To cover financial years 2008/09 and 2009/10....
1. Which fields of information from the Full Electoral Roll are added into
a) the LLPG system?
b) the Citizen file (or its equivalent, if you have one)
2. Approximately how much debt is recovered by the council each year, in an average 12 month period?
3. Approximately how much debt is written off...
1. How much council tax has remained uncollected by your local authority for the last financial year?
2. What are your local authority's total arrears, going back to 1993 (the date when council tax was brought in)?...
I would like the names of the members of the 'Improvement Board' referred to in a letter from the then Under Secretary of State, Shahid Malik MP dated 8th March 2010 to the then Leader of the Council, Councillor Garry Hague.
When was the decision made by the council to engage...
1. How much has your authority spent in 2010/11 on advertising in explaining financial cutbacks you intend to make or on asking for feedback from the public? ie. holding meetings, advertising in newspapers etc.
2. How much money has your council spent in 2010/11 on producing literature for the authority...
Please could you provide the following information for 2010:
1. The amount of the single largest payout of compensation for damage caused by a pothole.
2. The address of the road where the damage resulting in this compensation claim took place.
3. The address of the road which has resulted in...
In the council's capacity as an employing authority, for each of the last five years:
a) How many individuals eligible for membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme were employed by the authority?
b) How many of those employees were active members of the Local Government Pension Scheme?
c) Does the authority monitor...
Requested Dated: 16/11/2010.
How much money the Local Authority has spent, in each year from 2004 onwards, on
1)Nintendo DSs or Nintendo DS Lites
2)Other Nintendo Products
3)Nintendo Software, i.e. games for the Nintendo DS or DS Lite...
1) How many public space projects did the Council fund, or part-fund, in 2008, 2009 and 2010? For each year please tell me the total cost of the projects.
2) How many public space projects does the Council plan to fund, or part-fund, in 2011, 2012, and 2013? For...
Are you able to provide information on the bands of the Thurrock pay scale that Nursery Nurses in each Thurrock primary school are paid on....
1. Please provide the name and most recently published salary (i.e. 2009-10) of your chief executive.
2. Please provide me with a spreadsheet detailing for each of the financial years 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 how much your chief executive claimed for each of:
a) Mileage allowance for cost of using own...
1. I request a figure (or estimation) of how much was spent on your IT last year.
2. If at all possible, I would also be interested to know how and where the council stores its data; whether this is stored in-house or off site....
1. How much money did the local authority make from selling personal details of its residents to third party organisations in the 2008/09 financial year?
2. How much money did the local authority make from selling personal details of its residents to third party organisations in the 2009/10 financial year?
3. How...
I am interested in the terms and conditions used in making payment to those companies that provide goods or services to Thurrock council.
1. What is the required number of days Thurrock council agreed with suppliers/providers of goods and services for the council to pay invoices?
2. Please provide me...
We are writing to request a schedule of all National Non-Domestic Rate accounts in your billing authority area that still have a credit balance shown on them from any time from 1 April 1990 to date. The reason for the credit might be, but will not be limited to:...
Please advise the total number of leased (communication) lines linking buildings within the council's remit, including educational establishments. Please also advise the total cost, in the last financial year, of the communication links....
1. Where the local authority has reduced a voluntary sector funding stream, grant or contract for 2010/11 compared to 2009/10, as a result of or in relation to funding cuts imposed by central government, I am requesting:
a) the name of each third sector organisation that had its funding reduced in...
I would be grateful if you could supply the information for the tax years 2008-2009, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011:
A) The amount of Liability Orders granted.
B) The number of cases passed to a bailiff company for collection and the associated bailiff used.
C) The amount of complaints made regarding Bailiffs and details of...
What percentage of foreign registered vehicles are traced for payment....
1. Could you let me know how much was spent in 2009/10 on members pay, allowances, travel, meals and hotels?
2. Also how much did it cost (including all office/administration costs) for Council members to be in the local government pension scheme in 2009/10?...
1. After the Local Government Act of 2000 what form of local governance did your authority adopt?
2. The pattern of election to your council:
a. How often are local elections held?
b. What proportion of councillors stand down at each election?
3. How much do/did your councillors receive as a basic...
Can you tell me at the "Big Weekend" event which was on between Friday 31st July to Sunday 2nd August 2009 at Blackshots
1. How much did the whole event cost?
2. How much was from external funding? And from whom and amounts?
3. How much from councils budget?
4. How much did it...
A breakdown of credit balances accrued since your earliest records, for the amounts owing to all "incorporated" companies within the authority's billing area, including:
In the last financial year 2009/2010 please provide me with the number of settlements and the total amount paid as compensation to teachers or teaching assistants for injuries sustained at schools or outside school while employed on school duties. For each incident please provide me with the amount of...
I would like some information about your current Accounts Payable processes, please indicate:
1. Where the Accounts Payable team is currently based and if centralised?
2. Which finance system/accounting software the finance team uses to process supplier invoices?
3. Number of staff manually processing the invoices?
4. Volume of paper and...
Misfuelling of motor vehicles with the wrong fuel is a major issue in the UK with the costs of doing so ranging from £300 for a simple drain and flush through of the tank to over £5000 for those unfortunate enough to irreparably damage their engine. The AA has estimated...
The current economic environment poses a huge threat to the future of Adult Social Care services in this country. Please could you provide me a list of Adult Social Care services you plan to commission through tender up until March 2011, with an approximate value where possible....
In the last financial year (2009/10):
a) how much money did your local authority receive from central Government for the Connexions careers service?
b) how much money did your authority spend on the Connexions careers service?
c) how many interventions did the Connexions careers service make in your local authority? and how many...
Details of the amount of money spent on refreshments.
This would include things such as snacks, alcohol and biscuits that are given for free to councillors before or after meetings. It would also include instances where food and drink was provided for entertaining purposes. It would *not* therefore include cases where...
1. Whether your Council outsource any debt collection processes to the types of providers listed below and the name(s) of the suppliers that support the debt collection processes (please do not include any DPA protected information i.e. personal emails etc)
a. Bailiff / enforcement companies
b....
1. How much was reimbursed for Casual User mileage reimbursement for financial year 09/10?
2. What was the total number of miles travelled by casual users in the last financial year 09/10?
3. How many journeys were reimbursed for in the last financial year?
4. What is the pence/mile amount reimbursed to casual...
Please would you provide me with responses to the following queries:
1. How many cheques were issued in total (including both to individuals and to organisations) by your Local Authority between the dates of the 1st April 2009 and the 31st March 2010?
2. How many cheques were received in total (including...
I would like to know the following information as it applies in the financial year 2010-2011:
1. Please tell me in which cases your council charges people to make payments by credit card or by debit card. These could include but are not limited to payment of:
a) council tax
b) parking...
1) How many adults with care and support needs has your council placed in another local authority area?
How many of these are:-
Adults aged 18-64 with learning disabilities
Adults aged 18-64 with mental health problems
Adults aged 18-64 with physical disabilities
Adults aged 18-64...
1. I would like to know what the total expenditure on IT/ICT was within the Council for the following years:
Budget Year 2008-9 £?
Budget Year 2009-10 £?
I would also like to know what the planned budget figure...
Please provide how much money has been spent on the consultants Jenkins Duval Ltd for their work on the Homelessness Strategy for the council....
Please provide the financial cost of running the homelessness department for the year 2009/10 or the budget if this figure is not available....
1. The amount of court costs incurred to take someone to court for council tax arrears in 2009/2010. This is the actual amount of costs that Thurrock Council pay out.
2. A breakdown of how the £95 liability order fee is obtained as a figure.
3. How many times in the years...
Please can you send me your annual casual user mileage reimbursement including a breakdown of individual trips and distances travelled....
Addition to cycle paths on Southend Road where railway bridge is approx 2 years ago. Recently this has been reinstated to its original layout. Can you please advise why this has happened and the costs involved....
1. How many applications were received by the Local Authority for disabled facility grants in 2009 - 10, and how many DFG applications were approved in that period?
2. What was the Authority's disabled facility grant total budget allocation and spend was in 2009 - 10?
3. What the Authority's total disabled...
I am doing some research on Teaching and School Staffing Costs.
Please could you tell me if the Bands in the Staff Costs in the Council's Statement of Accounts 2008/09 include Teaching and School Staff Costs?
Please could you also provide me under the FOI Act with a break down of the...
I would like to make a request under Freedom of Information Legislation about the work of traffic wardens in Thurrock.
How many fixed penalty notices were issued in Thurrock in the year to April 30 2010?
What was the total value of the fines? What was the average value?
What are the main...
1. Do you use a content management system (CMS) to construct your public facing Internet site/s?
2. If the answer to 1 is "yes" please provide the following information:-
a. Is the CMS a proprietary system (i.e. a system purchased from a supplier in order to build web sites) or has it...
1. In the last financial year (09/10) how much money did you pay to students, who attended schools under your authority's responsibility, as compensation for personal injuries?
2. How many individual claims did this represent?
3. For all payments in excess of £2,000 please state the amount of compensation and a brief...
1. Please list the framework agreements and call off arrangements (often referred to as 'call-off contracts') let by your local authority and which are used solely by your local authority. Information to be provided is: Supplier, spend category (e.g. stationery, etc) and total expenditure on each one for year 2008/9.
2....
1. The total amount of money paid to all trade unions for financial periods 2008-09 and 2009-10. Where possible this should be broken down by the individual payments to each trade union by name, however if this disaggregated information is not available please continue to provide a total figure for...
1. The cost of employing an outside firm to move the contents of the Conservative and Labour offices. Crates to pack the contents of the offices arrived today and the move will take place next Wednesday.
2. Also any additional costs related to the move (ie. IT costs etc)...
1. he number of fly tipping incidents per month in the Borough for the last 2 years.
2. The cost to Thurrock of clearing up fly tipped rubbish (say the annual cost for the last 3 years)
Or whatever data you have on these issues....
Could you please tell me what the mayor's budget for 2010/11 is and what the allowances under this budget are? Does this budget cover entertainment, hospitality and personal expenses? Also how much does the mayor's car and chauffeur cost and are the costs covered under the same budget?...
I do understand that the consultation is over now it's just that I was looking through the council's website and I see this and wanted to ask a few questions I would be grateful if you could answer them.
1. Has this been am sure this has been approved yet by...
How much money has been allocated by your authority to supporting teenage mothers since the government's Teenage Pregnancy Strategy began?...
Excepting the Head of Housing/Interim Head of Housing, have there been any posts for which (in the past year) the Housing Department has paid an hourly rate greater than £30.51 (including temporary and permanent, full time and part time staff.
If the answer is yes, please provide a list of the...
I request a list of all Non-Domestic rate accounts that are currently overpaid or in credit.
Please could your office provide me with an emailed spreadsheet (preferably in Excel), including the following information;
Please could you let me have details of the amount spend by your local authority on legal services in the last financial year? If this information is not readily to hand for the last financial year, please provide it for the financial year preceding that.
If possible, please show separately;
1....
1. Could you please supply me with details regarding your current travel and expense management process and VAT recovery?
2. How do individuals claim for their expenses and mileage?
3. What system is currently used?
4. The contact names of the person or persons whom I can discuss the information with.
5. How many...
1. How many staff retired from the organisation in each of the following years?
a) 2007/08
b) 2008/09
c) 2009/10
2. How many staff began drawing a pension accrued from their service at the organisation in each of the following years?
a) 2007/08
b) 2008/09
c) 2009/10
3. How many staff were classed as taking "early retirement" in...
1. The total fiscal yearly spend on customer contact centre resourcing across the whole local authority.
2. The total number of customer contact centre staff employed directly by the council on a permanent basis.
3. The total number of customer contact centre staff currently working on an agency basis.
4. A list of...
We are writing to you with a request for a list of or schedule of all National Non-Domestic Rate accounts in your billing authority area that still have a credit balance shown on them at any time from 1st April 1990 to date. The reason for the credit might be,...
Would you be good enough to inform me of the current overall amount of monies retained in the Social Responsibility Fund. Secondly, if any monies were taken from the fund and for what purpose for budget year 2009/10. Finally, if any monies will be taken from the fund and for...
My request is for information of the associated COSTS and TIME involvement for work carried out (within the past 12 months) of the groundworks, and installation of four "dropped kerbs" (2 either side of the road), and then their subsequent removal, within the past 6 weeks. Also, would you please...
Could I please request the cost incurred by the service of Mr J Hobson QC in January 2010. I look forward to your prompt response....
Could you please tell me how much Bob Coomber costs the Council a day....
1. In setting the budget for 2010/11 what assumption did the Council make about the percentage increase in NJC employees pay; JNC (Youth and Community Workers) employees pay; Chief Officers JNC employees pay and Craft Workers JNC employees pay that would apply from 1 April 2010?
2. What is the sum...
1. What back up software do you use?
2. Do your back ups complete within the allotted window?
3. Do you use DAS, NAS or SAN storage?
4. What storage manufacturer do you use?
5. How many usable TBs do you currently use?
6. Is your data tiered?
7. Do you have any plans to replicate...
In the financial years ending April 2009 and April 2010
a) how many members of your staff received a bonus?
b) how many consultants did you employ?
c) how much did you pay these consultants?
d) are all bonus payments subject to personal income tax?
e) what was the monetary value of the average bonus...
A. What was the total amount (gross) spent by the authority on communications and media relations in the financial years 2008/09 and 2003/04? By communications and media relations I am referring to public relations, print media, publicity, promotion and any other spending that might reasonably be described by those terms.
B....
My colleagues and I would be very grateful if you could tell us how much it costs to run your DAAT. We are interested in the costs of employing commissioners and related administrative charges over the last full accounting year. I am sure this information is the basis of your...
1) The names and job titles of any person working for schools which come under your Local Education Authority (either as a staff member, a freelancer, a contractor), who was paid over £100,000 (gross) in the financial years 2009/10 and 2008/9 and the details of how much they were...
1. For your mandatory HMO licensing scheme:
A. What fee do you charge?
B. What fee do you charge for renewal?
C. For each of the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and currently In 2010 please state how much the scheme cost to administer. Please also include any set-up costs.
2. Please state for...
I would be obliged if you could provide me with the salary grades/scales of your Geographic Information Systems staff in the relevant posts below:-
a) GIS Manager,
b) GIS Supervisor
c) GIS Project Co-ordinator,
d) GIS Officers/Technicians,
e) LPG Custodian,
f) Street Naming and Numbering Officer.
In addition, I would be grateful if you could provide a...
Please could you provide the following information, with separate figures for the last three recorded years:
Within that figure please also...
Please could you provide the following information, with separate figures for the last three recorded years:
a) The number of liability orders issued, per year for the last three recorded financial years
b) The amount of court costs charged per liability order in each year
c) The total income accruing to the...
Please could you provide the following information, with separate figures per service area for the last three recorded years:
For each service area, please provide:
1. A list of the circumstances or services for which a credit card surcharge is applied when a payment is made to the council.
2. How much is...
Details of the pay and bonuses received by the council's three top-earning electricians, refuse collectors, traffic light repairman & plumbers....
1. For each year 2007-08 and 2008-09, the number of council staff receiving total remuneration of £100,000 or more each.
2. For each year 2007-08 and 2008-09, and for each individual included in question 1 above, the individual's name, position, total remuneration and a full breakdown of that remuneration....
1) How many residents did you place into a care home on a permanent basis during the financial year 2008-9?
2) How many of those people owned a property that would not have fallen under the mandatory disregards? (In other words, how many could have been in the position where their...
1. How many patient groups are members of the LINk in your local authority?
2. How many members of the public are members of the LINk in your local authority?
3. How is the success of the LINk in raising awareness among the community of its activities/work measured and/or benchmarked?
4. If...
1. The number of locum solicitors within your legal services team dealing with child care matters.
2. Against each locum please provide as relates to each locum
a) what date they started working with the Council b) the agency that supplied them
c) the hourly rate of their pay d)whether...
Please supply the cost of vetting checks made by schools on members of staff, third party workers and volunteers within the council boundary
over the past three years, giving a year by year costing breakdown.
Please include the cost and number of Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks, Enhanced CRB checks, as well...
How many new applicants for Council Tax Benefit and Housing Benefit received their first payment of the benefit within
i) 14 days
ii) one month
iii) two months
iii) three months
iv) more than three months after application in;
a) second quarter of 2009/2001
b) first quarter of 2009/10
c)...
1) An indication of the savings achieved by your local authority in the 'Supporting People Programme' by each year since 2003 and
2) A current indication of reserves in your Authority relating to the SP programme that are associated with your management of the Programme....
1. Does your council have a council free sheet?
2. How often is the free sheet published?
3. How many
(i) Full-time
(ii) Part-time staff work on the free sheet?
4. How much advertising revenue has the free sheet generated in each of the last five years?
5. Does the free sheet contain entertainment...
1. I wish to know in 2009 how many non-dependant income enquiry letters have been sent out to parents/carers in receipt of council tax benefits or awards, for dependant children of school age who are due to leave school the last Friday in June 2010, in order to prove their...
1. How much has the local authority paid out in compensation to teachers and headteachers working in schools and central services following claims in the County or High Court for accidents at work in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Please provide a breakdown of these payments according to whether the...
I am interested in the total amount your organisation spends on environmental related services (as defined below) on an annual basis. Please could you provide the total spend incurred, both internal and with third parties, for the last three years. In addition please provide a breakdown of all contracts that...
How many people to do have working in your Freedom of Information team?
What are the job titles, and salaries for each person (salary ranges will be ok)?...
1. How many qualified Solicitors/Barristers do you employ as legal fee earners or in a fee earning/management capacity?
(Please provide the numbers in full time equivalents and include any temporary or agency staff)
2. How many Paralegals (qualified, part qualified or non-qualified fee earners) do you employ?
(Please provide the numbers...
1. How much did your authority spend in 2008/09 on maintaining ROADS (excluding footways) via:
a) REACTIVE patching of roads (i.e. in response to public complaints, Councillor requests, reports of potholes, your Inspectors findings potholes, etc)?
b) PLANNED roads maintenance schemes (i.e. digging up and relaying entire roads, major schemes,...
I would like to know how much funding have Thurrock Council given to each of the following Groups TRUST, TAG & NGAGE since funding began.
Also which other groups receive funding and what have they each received....
1. How many staff employed by the Council earned more than a total salary of
£64,766 pa (inclusive of bonuses and other benefits)?
2. How many staff employed by the Council earned more than a total salary of
£144,520 pa (inclusive of bonuses and other benefits)?
3. How many staff employed by the Council...
1. What is the average weekly cost of providing homecare in your area (average
weekly cost per person)?
2. In five years' time how many people do you estimate would meet the criteria for
receiving homecare at the following levels:
a....
Names of supplier(s), duration of contract and contract values for the current provision of the following data and telecommunications services:
Wide Area Network(s)
Broadband/Ethernet networks
Internet Service Provision
Web/Data Hosting and management
Video-conferencing...
1. If the S151 Officer has a qualification from a recognised chartered accountancy body?
2. Whether or not the council's S151 Officer reports directly to the Chief Executive?
3. Whether the S151 officer is part of the council's leadership team or top management team.
4. If the S151 Officer does not report...
1. Please supply me with the details of the standard payment terms your authority employs in dealings with its suppliers, contractors and any other party supplying a service or product.
2. Please also supply the most recent available figures showing, within a 12-month period:
1. In setting the budget for 2009/10 what assumption did the council make about the percentage increase in a) teachers' pay and b) NJC employees' pay that would apply from 1 April 2009?
2. What is the period covered by the most recent Medium Term Financial Strategy approved by the council?...
Request 1.
Has your authority spent any significant money (in excess of £10,000) in the last four years on Geographic Information System (GIS) projects? (Yes or No)
If so, please provide a breakdown of the costs per named item per named supplier to deliver the project in its totality.
e.g. Software Licence, Acme...
I would be grateful if you could let me know the following information for the financial year 2008/09
1) 1) The average number of full time equivalent staff for the following services:
What is the amount in a figure that the council receive from sports?...
1. Did Thurrock Council pay the April 2008 England, Wales & Northern Ireland NJC (Green Book) pay settlement (2.75% plus an additional £100pa for spinal column points 4, 5 & 6).
2. Does Thurrock Council use the national pay spine or are local pay scales in operation?
3. For the following job...
Please provide me with the following information under the Freedom of Information Act with regard to the Council's Strategic Services Partnership (SSP) Contract.
The annual cost to Thurrock Council of the SSP Contract each year since 2004.
The number of staff (by service and function) transferred from Thurrock Council to the...
1) Is your authority expecting to reduce the number of staff employed by the authority in 2009 due to the economic down turn?
a. If so, how many FTE staff posts may be reduced and what percentage is this of...
1.How many separate housing benefit claims is the council currently paying? A single payment could be on behalf of an individual and or family and or couple and or other group. Can the council please state the total amount of housing benefit it is paying or it...
Number of questions around ICT expenditure for 06/07 & 07/08....
1. The cost of employing consultants each year since 2004.
2. The costs per Council Directorate of employing consultants since 2004.
3. The arrangements for consultants to claim expenses i.e. the scheme of legitimate expenses for consultants.
4. The cost of consultants expenses each year since 2004 by Council Directorate.
5. The...
1. Could you please furnish me details of salaries to each Thurrock Local Councillors.
2. Details of expenses (if any) of each Councillor incurred in the last year i.e. telephone, car allowance (if any) plus any other relevant information....
1. ICT- Hardware- desktop computers, laptops, fax machines, printers, servers, switches, keyboards, hard drives, cables etc
2. ICT- Software- applications software, operating systems software, database software, security and anti-virus software, spyware etc
3. ICT- Telephony- telephone switches and support, voice and data networks, telephone handsets, mobile phones etc
4. ICT- Support Services- maintenance,...
Q1. Does your council have a green IT procurement policy (i.e. a policy that encourages the consideration of environmental factors when purchasing technology)?
Q2. What percentage of your council's current IT infrastructure complies with this "green IT procurement policy"?
Q3. Does your council measure the electricity output of its...
I would like to request the amount of money spent by the council on marketing and communications in each of the last financial years.
And I would also like to request the number of staff involved in delivering this service over the same period....
1...Does the council's pension scheme currently have a deficit? Can you state what this deficit was on April 1 2008?
2...Since April 1 2008 what payments has the council made into and or committed to the scheme to reduce this deficit (apart from the normal
employer and employee contributions to the...
I am writing to request details of the total remuneration of senior council staff. "Total remuneration" includes, but is not limited to, items such as base salary, bonus, benefits in kind, car allowances, expenses, payments for returning officer duties and redundancy payments
1. For each year 2006-07 and 2007-08, the...
I wonder if you would be so kind as to tell me what The Thurrock Council plans to spend on Street Cleaning and Picking up of Litter in the year 2007-8....
How many summons Thurrock council issued for non payment of council tax during Apr 07 - Dec 07 & Apr 08 - Dec 08...
1.The number of councillors who sat on Thurrock Council during the 2007-08 financial year.
2.The total bill for councillors' pay/allowances - including basic and any special responsibility allowances - during the 2007-08 financial year.
3.The total bill for councillors' expenses during the 2007-08 financial year.
4.If the council employed paid political advisers to...
Is it possible that you can provide me with the gross total costs of the following elements of Central Services within the local authority since the best value accounting code of practice (BVACOP) was introduced in the financial accounting year of 2000/2001 up until 2007/08:
Corporate & Democratic Core:
i....
ICT Plan or Investment Strategy
Total annual ICT expenditure for 2007/08
Annual expenditure on hardware for 2007/08
Annual spend on hardware includes desktop computers, laptop computers, fax machines, printers, servers, LAN switches, keyboards, hard drives, cables etc.
Annual expenditure on software for 2007/08
Annual spend on software includes applications software, operating systems software,...
Four questions around the Council's relationship with utility companies and fines imposed....
What was the total income from local land charges in 2006/07 and 2007/08?
Are you expecting the total income from local land charges to be lower in 2008/09?
When setting the 2008/09 council budget, what was the total income from local land charges that you were expecting to receive in...
How much the parking bay improvements for Nicholas Close cost for the first 2 sets of bays and then the total amount after the grass area....
How much is spent on renovation work to Councillors' and council workers' offices in
each of the last 2 years. I would like specific info on what the piece of work was, the cost and whose office it was for....
1. How much money and what date did Thurrock Council receive money from Morrisons supermarket?
2. Exactly why did they give Thurrock Council money?
3. What was this money spent on and on what dates was it spent?...
I write with regards to a request for Thurrock Council's Statement of Accounts. I was wondering if you could possibly find the time to please send me the 'Cashflow Statement' for the following financial years:
2007/08...
5 questions regarding DWA Licences:
As of 20 February 2009:
1) How many DWA licenses are issued in your area?
2) How many of these licenses are issued for primates (monkeys, apes or prosimians, including lemurs, bush babies, and lorises)?
3) What is the cost of obtaining a DWA license in your area?
4) What...
1. Has your local authority ever used a 'reverse e-auction' as a method of procurement? If so, when and for what service?
2. Has your local authority ever used a 'reverse e-auction' for contracts relating to domiciliary care for older people (i.e. the provision of care in their own home)?...
1.Have you have replied to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in response to the £142 million free swimming fund programme and asked for / expressed interest in a grant to provide free swimming for over 60s in your locality? Please answer "yes" or "no".
2.If the...
Please supply the total spend on moves for the last financial year and from April this year to date - broken down by department. Average cost of a move, either for an individual or for a small team i.e. 5 - 10 people including desks, computers, cupboards, floor boxes, etc....
What is the current council workers pensions deficit?
What companies is the money from the council workers pensions fund invested in?...
1. What is your annual expenditure on Door Entry Systems, including doors and intercom telephones, on the borough's social housing blocks of flats?
2. Who provides and maintains the Door Entry Systems, including the doors and intercom telephones?
3. What date does the contract finish?...
In the current financial year (from 01.04.08 to date) how many training courses or conferences have staff attended at the expense of the Council where the venue was outside of the UK and Ireland? For each state, (I) nature of event, (ii) venue, (iii) the number and job titles of...
Various questions regarding HMO/Selective Licensing Fees and Costs....
1.Could you please identify your current Chief Executive and please state the total amount her or she has claimed in expenses from the authority during the period beginning January 1 2008 to the present day. I would like to receive information about expenses even if the person hasn't been in...
1. Does your council provide a permanent car for the Chair/Mayor of the Council and if so, what VED band is the vehicle?
2. If not, what method of transport is provided for the Chair/Mayor to attend Council events?
3. What was the annual cost of providing i) this car (and...
Details of Childcare Voucher supplier, the commission fee paid, number of employees
within scheme, is there a contract, end date of contract, review date of scheme?...
Section 106 contributions and where they are held, or the detail to exactly what they have been applied to for following sites: DWS Bodyworks, Thames Road, and Hogg Lane/Eastern Way...
1. For each of the financial years starting: 1 April 2005; 1 April 2006; 1 April 2007 and 1 April 2008, the percentage increase awarded in that financial year to the salaries of Chief Officers and Assistant Chief Officers.
2. The total expenditure on performance related pay in relation to the...
How much money has been spent on agency staff in the last 3 years?...
What total income did the council obtain from sales of information from the electoral register during the financial year 2007/8?...
Six questions relating to the provision of home care for adults who have an acquired brain injury (ABI)....
How many ultrasonic teenage deterrent devices have been supplied to your Local Authority?...
Provide following details relating to the cost to the council in the last financial year (06/07) for Members' Allowances.
1. What were the total monies paid out by the council on all expenses, allowances, and pension payments to councillors?
2. What was the total in for basis allowances?
3. What was...
Provide the number of people on Thurrock Council's payroll who earn more than £100,000 per year....
1. Thurrock Council's General Fund - does the income include the amount paid to the Council by way of planning gains and planning fees by developers?
2. How much money does Thurrock Council receive from Development Agenices, central government departments, or other non-departmental public bodies (please specify which bodies and amounts)?
3....
1. The number of staff employed by the Council (headcount) during the following three financial years:1996-97 (b) 2001-02 (c) 2005-06
2. A copy of the council' Statement of Accounts for 96/97 01-02/ 05-06...
How many people have been charged with offences relating to not clearing up after their dogs in Thurrock in the last 12 months?...
What services do Thurrock provide for
A) Male and
B) Female victims of
Domestic abuse?
C) How much funding is provided by Thurrock in providing each service?...
Please provide a breakdown of costs individuals pay for specific services: Street Cleansing and weeding of public domains, refuse service, grounds maintenance....
1. How many fines for dropping litter have been issued by the Council over the last five years?
2. Is the income from litter fines re-invested in improving street cleaning services or used elsewhere in the Council?...
Information on how Public Sector Services are carried out, including Council Tax, Non-Domestic Rates and parking fines.
Does your organisation use private firms to provide bailiff services for collection of unpaid Council Tax, Non-Domestic rates and parking fines? If so, how do you use and how long are the contracts in...
Information on the number of asylum seekers in Thurrock going back 4 years to 2003, the direct cost and other benefits they receive....
What is the total spend of interpreters and publications in foreign languages?...
Request for copy of Section 52 budget statement for 2006-07 relating to the Youth Service....
The annual rent or lease charge that is paid by the resident cricket clubs at the following recreation grounds:
1. Horndon
2. Orsett
3. Blackshots - King George Playing Field
4. Stanford...
A) Details of income from Council Tax for 2005 and expected for 2006.
B) Breakdown of allocation of this money
C) Number of housing association and council houses within the Chafford Hundred Area....
Organisation, Expenditure and Infrastructure Information...
How much has the Council spent on consultant fees from April 05 to March 06? What is the amount spent on consultant fees for previous years, April 04 - March 05 and April 03 - March 04?...
Details of Thurrock Council's budget allocation for Aids and Adaptations (disability)for this financial year (2006/07)?...
Has Thurrock Council made any form of subsidy towards Impulse Leisure over the last five years? What are the contents of the 2005 Review and why there was this delayed? Is Thurrock Council today satisfied with the management of Impulse Leisure?...
Information on Stifford Rail Bridge project: what is the situation with overspend/delays problems and who has Thurrock Council applied to for the money?...
What is the Council's position on bringing in 'outside' help, the reason d'être behind it and the cost to the council of the consultants?...
Local councils in the county have received £3 million in extra Government grant in February, money which should be spent on enhancing business areas according to the Federation of Small Businesses(FSB). Why has Thurrock Borough Council received zero?...
What is the average cost for one hour's parking?
What was the average cost last year? (2005)
What is your revenue from parking so far this year?
What was it last year?...
Letters on the above were sent out to residents and suppliers in February 2006 - how many letters have gone out and what is the purpose of the letters?...
Job evaluation - an analysis of job increases and decreases in particular pay bands based on October 2005 letters to staff....
1. Why was there no effective strategy for the continuance of the regeneration
work started by PORT (other than PORT 2 which deals specifically with the
Broadway estate).
2. Who decided to shut down Tilbury Tomorrow within days of its launch? As far
as we can ascertain this has never been discussed or debated...
Information on the provision of free NHS continuing care, as laid down in the Coughlan Case, as opposed to means-tested care through social services (3 questions)...
Revenue Support Grant - Information about the grant the Council has received and what implication this will have on next years council tax....
Per financial year:
How much was the gross cost of running the Council's Street Warden Scheme?
How much central Government funding was received to pay towards the Street Warden Scheme?...
Compensation claims and footpaths.
How many claims has the Council received from people who have tripped over footpaths in Thurrock and what is the total paid out since 2000?...
Council Tax:
£1.7M Uncollected Council Tax last year.
Why is £1.7m uncollected?
How much was collected?...
How much does the Council spends on cleaning graffiti?...
How many jobs were evaluated, how many appeals were there and how many appeals were upheld under the Job Evaluation project?...
Details of the amount the Council has recently spent on hospitality....
1. Number of vehicles the Council takes out insurance for.
2. Date/s of purchase or renewal of insurance policies for those vehicles.
3. Date/s suitable for the relevant Council department to receive tenders....
Contract information such as Contract holder, duration of the contract, start date and annual value for the following areas - Waste Management/Recycling/Street Cleaning and Waste Disposal....
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