Information Governance
Coventry City Council
PO Box 15
Council House
Rowan Bridge
Coventry
Via email:
CV1 5RR
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
www.coventry.gov.uk
Please contact Information Governance
16 March 2020
Direct line 024 7697 5408
xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Dear Sir/ Madam
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)
Request ID: REQ06950
Thank you for your request for information relating to Enforcement of the Scrap Metal
Dealers Act 2013
Your request and our responses are outlined below:
1. How many visits have your Local Authority Officers made to licensed Scrap
Metal Dealers in order to enforce the provisions of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act
2013 since October 2018?
We can confirm that 9 visits have been made.
2. How many closure orders have been issued or enforcement actions undertaken
by yourselves against scrap metal dealers, both mobile and site-based, since
October 2018?
We can confirm that 0 closure orders have been issued or enforcement actions
undertaken by ourselves since 2018.
The supply of information in response to a freedom of information request does not
confer an automatic right to re-use the information. You can use any information supplied
for the purposes of private study and non-commercial research without requiring further
permission. Similarly, information supplied can also be re-used for the purposes of news
reporting. An exception to this is photographs. Please contact us if you wish to use the
information for any other purpose.
Should you wish to make any further requests for information, you may find what you are
looking for is already published on the
Council’s web site and in particular its FOI/EIR
Disclosure log, Council's Publication Scheme, Open Data and
Facts about Coventry. If you are unhappy with the handling of your request, you can ask us to review our
response. Requests for reviews should be submitted within 40 days of the date of receipt
of our response to your original request – email
: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx If you are unhappy with the outcome of our review, you can write to the Information
Commissioner, who can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe
House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF or email
xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xx. Please remember to quote the reference number above in your response.
Yours faithfully
Information Governance Encl:
2