27 August 2008

When calling or telephoning please ask for: Emma Fowler

My Ref: 714546 Your Ref:

Dear Mr Havelock

Re: FOI Requests: Income and Expenditure for Fixed Penalties

The application that was received by the Council on 04 August 2008 has now been considered and this letter is a full response to that application. (I apologise that there has been a delay in supplying the information).

The Council does hold the information that you have requested and answers to your questions that the Council holds which are relevant to your application are enclosed with this letter.

Please supply a year on year account, for years 2001 to 2008 inclusive, regarding how much income was derived from fixed penalties relating to dog fouling and litter offences received by the Department of Development. How this income was spent i.e. on what was the money spent (training, equipment, advertising etc) and what happened to any residual balance left over at the end of each budget year.

Dog Fouling:

01/02 - no records

02/03 - 62 fixed penalties = £3100.00 gross income

03/04 - 40 fixed penalties = £2000.00 gross income

04/05 - 28 fixed penalties = £1400.00 gross income

05/06 - 31 fixed penalties = £1550.00 gross income

06/07 - 46 fixed penalties = £2300.00 gross income

07/08 - 30 fixed penalties = £1500.00 gross income

Littering:

We didn't serve any FPNs prior to 2005. 

2005: 116 FPNs generating a total gross income of £5,800 but with costs of £3,828 = £1,972 net

2006: 105 FPNs generating a total gross income of £5,200 but with costs of £3,465 = £1,735 net

2007: 6 FPNs generating a total gross income of £300 but with costs of £198 = £102 net

Since 2005, some of the money collected from FPN's has been spent on CCTV equipment and staff attending training.  Any residual budget left over is taken back into central funds.

Please note that the information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other reuse such as commercial publication would require the permission of the Council.

If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled you may ask for an internal review to take place.

I hope that we have now supplied the information that you have requested. If you wish to discuss this letter or the information that is supplied then please contact me through the direct line telephone number above, but please leave a contact telephone number if I am unavailable. I can also be contacted by email as above.

Yours sincerely

Emma Fowler

Freedom of Information Representative

Environmental Services

Nigel Pitt - Director of Development