Resources & Performance
Director: Mike Parsons
Mr T Behr
Information Governance Unit
Hertfordshire County Council
CHO150, Room C1, County Hall
Pegs Lane, Hertford
Hertfordshire
SG13 8DQ
Telephone:
01992 555848
Fax:
01992 588117
Email:
[email address]
(By email only)
Date:
1st September 2010
Dear Mr Behr,
Reference number: FOI/ENV/08/10/2372
On 12th August 2010 we received the following request for information from you:
“This is a question relating to your driver improvement schemes
offered in place of a fixed penalty speeding charge, if you have
such a scheme.
Please could you provide information relating to:
1 confirmation of its existence
2 cost of participating in this course
3 year of inception
4 details of who administers any such scheme
5 details of who delivers the scheme
6 details of how income is distributed, including beneficiaries of
any or all income
For each accounting year since inception, please provide:
1. numbers of people participating in the driver improvement scheme
each year including the most recent available figure;
2. an annual breakdown of income;
3. details of how income is spent or distributed, with annual
breakdown;
4. confirmation of who receives this income, with details of where
this information is publicly accessible;
5. confirmation of where this income appears in the
accounts/budgets;
6. if the council receives all the income, clarification of how the
local police service is compensated for loss of income from fixed
penalty fines;
7. year by year cost of administering and delivering these courses;
8. which department of local administration is responsible for
budgets relating to the driver improvement courses;
9. copies of accounts where driver awareness course revenue and
expenditure is detailed.
”
www.hertsdirect.org
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Your request for information has been considered under the Freedom of Information Act
2000. I can confirm that Hertfordshire County Council does hold the information you have
requested and can respond as follows:
1 confirmation of its existence
Confirmed.
2 cost of participating in this course
£105.
3 year of inception
August 2006.
4 details of who administers any such scheme
Hertfordshire County Council.
5 details of who delivers the scheme
The courses are delivered by Driving Standards Agency, DSA Approved Driving
Instructors, ADIs.
6 details of how income is distributed, including beneficiaries of any or all
income
Income is used to cover the cost of Instructors (contractors as above), hire of venues
(Ramada Jarvis Group), National database registration (NDORS Ltd), administration, bank
charges, couriers, & training.
For each accounting year since inception, please provide:
1. numbers of people participating in the driver improvement scheme each year
including the most recent available figure;
2. an annual breakdown of income;
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3. details of how income is spent or distributed, with annual breakdown;
4. confirmation of who receives this income, with details of where this
information is publicly accessible;
As detailed in question 6 above
5. confirmation of where this income appears in the accounts/budgets;
Hertfordshire County Council, Environmental Services
6. if the council receives all the income, clarification of how the local police
service is compensated for loss of income from fixed penalty fines;
They are not.
7. year by year cost of administering and delivering these courses;
As detailed in question 3 above.
8. which department of local administration is responsible for budgets relating
to the driver improvement courses;
As detailed in question 5
.
9. copies of accounts where driver awareness course revenue and expenditure is
detailed.
Separate accounts are not produced for the Speed Awareness Courses. They are
included in the Traffic Management and Road Safety line of the Notes to the Accounts, Net
Cost of Services section of HCC's Statement of Accounts. These are available online at
www.hertsdirect.org/yrccouncil/cpdrp/account0203/ .
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us, quoting the reference
number on this email. To find out more about Freedom of Information, please visit
www.hertsdirect.org/foi
If you are unhappy with the way the County Council has handled your request for
information, you may complain through the County Council's complaints procedure
which
is available at www.hertsdirect.org/complaints
If you are unhappy with the outcome of the complaints procedure you are entitled to ask
the Information Commissioner to investigate your complaint. You should write to: FOI/EIR
Complaints Resolution, Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
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Yours sincerely,
Information Access Practitioner
Hertfordshire County Council
The Information Governance Unit supports Hertfordshire County Council's Data Protection,
Freedom of Information and Records Management activity.
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