Capital receipts and redundancies - local authorities in Wales

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To the information officer,

I am emailing to request information from the council under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

For each of the following financial years: 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 (up to 15/03/2019) I request the following information:

A) The total amount of capital receipts (in £) received by the council following the disposal of land and building assets

B) A breakdown of the use of the capital receipts in question (A) within each financial year by the following categories:
i)To help meet the cost of borrowing related to capital expenditure
ii)To invest in new capital expenditure
iii) To finance the revenue costs of service reform (as introduced in April 2016 and detailed here: http://democracy.carmarthenshire.gov.wal...)
iv) Other

C) A list of service reforms financed through capital receipts since flexible use of capital receipts was introduced in April 2016, including:
i) The date the reform began
ii) The amount (in £) of capital receipts used
iii) The savings target at the time
iv) The % of that savings target which has been met to-date

D) The amount of capital receipts (in £) used to meet the cost of redundancies made (or in the process of being made) by the council during each financial year

E) The number of redundancies made by the local authority in each financial year broken down by the service they relate to (this includes but is not limited to those redundancies listed in question (D)

I would like to receive this information electronically a spreadsheet, with the points above as the column headers if possible

If the decision is made to withhold some of this information using exemptions in the Act, please inform me of that fact and cite the exemptions used.

If you need clarification please contact me. Under your section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance I would expect you to contact me if you find this request unmanageable in any way before the 20th working day.

I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Yours faithfully,

Gareth Davies

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Thank you for your recent request for information from the Isle of
Anglesey County Council.

 

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004, we aim to respond to your
request within 20 working days.   In some instances we may be unable to
achieve this deadline, in which case we will advise you of the likely
timescale within which the response will be provided.

 

Beryl Jones

 

Swyddog Gwybodaeth Corfforaethol a Chwynion – Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn

Corporate Information and Complaints Officer  - Isle of Anglesey County
Council

 

 

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Dear Sir,

 

Please see below and attached our response to your FOI request.

 

If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of this response to your request
for information, and / or the decision made to withhold information, you
may ask for an internal review.  Please address your correspondence to the
Customer Care Officer, Legal Services, Council Offices, Llangefni, Ynys
Môn LL77 7TW (e-mail: [email address])

 

If you are not content with the outcome of any internal review you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe
House, Water Lane, Wilmslow SK9 5AF.  Please note that the Information
Commissioner is likely to expect internal review procedures to have been
exhausted before beginning his investigation.

 

Regards

 

Beryl Jones

 

Swyddog Gwybodaeth Corfforaethol a Chwynion – Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn

Corporate Information and Complaints Officer  - Isle of Anglesey County
Council

 

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Dear FOI team,

Apologies but I'm confused by your FOI response.

It would appear I have only been given answers to question (e)

The remaining questions are:

For each of the following financial years: 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 (up to 15/03/2019) I request the following information:

A) The total amount of capital receipts (in £) received by the council following the disposal of land and building assets

B) A breakdown of the use of the capital receipts in question (A) within each financial year by the following categories:
i)To help meet the cost of borrowing related to capital expenditure
ii)To invest in new capital expenditure
iii) To finance the revenue costs of service reform (as introduced in April 2016 and detailed here: http://democracy.carmarthenshire.gov.wal...
iv) Other

C) A list of service reforms financed through capital receipts since flexible use of capital receipts was introduced in April 2016, including:
i) The date the reform began
ii) The amount (in £) of capital receipts used
iii) The savings target at the time
iv) The % of that savings target which has been met to-date

D) The amount of capital receipts (in £) used to meet the cost of redundancies made (or in the process of being made) by the council during each financial year

Yours sincerely,

Gareth Davies

Dear Gareth,

The responses to A - D are noted in the body of the response beneath your questions (re-produced below for ease of reference)

A) The total amount of capital receipts (in £) received by the council following the disposal of land and building assets
2014/15 = £2,329,171
2015/16 = £3,636,276
2016/17 = £5,128,344
2017/18 = £2,781,533
2018/19 to date = £985,188

B) A breakdown of the use of the capital receipts in question (A) within each financial year by the following categories
2014/15 = £2,329,171 is split between ii) To invest in new capital expenditure £557,349 and iv) Other £1,771,822
2015/16 = £3,636,276 is split between ii) To invest in new capital expenditure £2,887,138 and iv) Other £749,138
2016/17 = £5,128,344 is split between ii) To invest in new capital expenditure £3,586,627 and iv) Other £1,541,717
2017/18 = £2,781,533 is split between ii) To invest in new capital expenditure £2,453,819 and iv) Other £327,714
2018/19 to date = £985,188 all ii) To invest in new capital expenditure

C) A list of service reforms financed through capital receipts since flexible use of capital receipts was introduced in April 2016 = NIL

D) The amount of capital receipts (in £) used to meet the cost of redundancies made (or in the process of being made) by the council during each financial year = NIL

I trust that this explains the situation.

Beryl Jones

Swyddog Gwybodaeth Corfforaethol a Chwynion – Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn
Corporate Information and Complaints Officer - Isle of Anglesey County Council

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