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Dear council team

I am looking for information on your environmental health services.

1. Could you please provide figures on the number of environmental health officers employed by the council over the last five financial years starting from April 2017/18 and including 18/19, 19/20, 20/21, 21/22. Please provide total number accross the environmental health services you offer.

2. I am also looking for numbers - again for the last five financial years - of the number of pest control workers (or equivent job title in your LA). Could you also please provide the number of cases dealt with by pest control workers over the last five financial years?

3. I am also looking for the number of officers charged with commercial waste enforcement over the last five years as well as the number of cases in the same time period.

I am making this request under freedom of information legislation and look forward to a response within 20 working days. If you need to clarify anything you can contact me here or on [phone number removed].

Yours faithfully,
Karin Goodwin

Karin Goodwin

Angelene Kirkpatrick, North Lanarkshire Council

Dear Sir/madam

I acknowledge receipt of your request which is receiving attention.

I shall contact you again when I am in a position to respond more fully to your request.

Yours sincerely

Angelene Kirkpatrick
For Freedom of Information Co-ordinator
North Lanarkshire Council
Civic Centre
Windmillhill Street
Motherwell
ML1 1AB

Working from home
Please contact via email

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Angelene Kirkpatrick, North Lanarkshire Council

Dear Ms Goodwin

Request for Information

 

I refer again to your e-mail of 27 April 2022 seeking information in
relation to Environmental Health Officers.

 

Having investigated, my response to your three enquiries is as follows:-

 

(1)         The following table sets out the number of Environmental Health
Officers employed by the Council from 2017/18 to 2021/22.

 

Environ. Health Offs. FTE 2017
to 22 FTE in Year
Job Title 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Grand Total
Business Manager
(Environmental Health) 1 1
Environmental Health Officer 24.5 21.5 22.5 24.3 24.5 117.3
Environmental Health Officer
(Casual) 0 0 0 0
Senior Environmental Health
Officer 6.6 6.6 6.6 7 7 33.8
Student Environmental Health
Officer 0 0 0 0
Trainee Environmental Health
Officer 1 1
Grand Total 32.1 28.1 29.1 31.3 32.5 153.1

 

 

(2)         The following table sets out the number of Pest Control workers
employed by the Council in the last five years.

 

Pest Control FTE 2017 to 22 FTE in Years
Job Title 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Grand Total
Pest Control Officer 2 1 1 2 2 8
Grand Total 2 1 1 2 2 8

 

 

The following table sets out the number of cases dealt with by Pest Control
workers in the last five years.

 

Financial Year Number of cases dealt with
2017/18 4,734
2018/19 6,980
2019/20 5,706
2020/21 5,105
2021/22 7,230

 

Please note that total case numbers are an aggregate of those performed by
NLC Pest Control Officers and those performed by our Pest Control
Contractor.

 

(3)         The following table sets out the number of Environmental Protection
Officers and the number of cases dealt with in the last five years.

 

           

Financial Year Environmental Protection Number of cases dealt with
Officers (FTE)
2017/18 9 287
2018/19 8 241
2019/20 8 169
2020/21 5 80
2021/22 8 134

 

I can advise that North Lanarkshire Council, having regard to the
provisions of Section 21 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act
2002, has established a procedure whereby any person who has requested
information and is in any way dissatisfied with the decision on that
request, can within forty working days require a review of that decision
by writing to the Head of Legal and Democratic Solutions, Civic Centre,
Windmillhill Street, Motherwell ML1 1AB.  Accordingly, if you are
dissatisfied with this decision and seek such review please write to the
Head of Legal and Democratic Solutions.

 

I would advise, also, that in terms of Section 47 of the Act a person who
is dissatisfied with a notice given by the local authority under Section
21 of the Act - ie. a notice following a review of a decision by a local
authority, or by the failure of a local authority to give such a notice -
may make application to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a
decision as to whether, in any respect specified in that application, the
request for information to which the requirement relates has been dealt
with in accordance with the Act.  Such an application must be made within
six months of the review decision and be in writing or in another form
which, by reason of it having some permanency is capable of being used for
subsequent reference. The application must state the name of the
applicant, and provide an address for correspondence. The application must
also specify the request for information to which the requirement for
review relates, the matter which gave rise to the applicant’s
dissatisfaction with the original decision of the local authority and the
matter which gives rise to the applicant’s dissatisfaction with the
decision on review by the local authority or the failure of the local
authority to issue such a decision.  The Scottish Information Commissioner
can be contacted as follows:-

 

Scottish Information Commissioner

Kinburn Castle

Doubledykes Road

St. Andrews

KY16  9DS

email: [1][email address]

 

Appeals to the Scottish Information Commissioner can also be made online
via the following link: -

 

[2]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal

 

I hope this information is sufficient for your purpose.  If, however, you
require further information – or I can assist in any other way – please
let me know.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Angelene Kirkpatrick

For Freedom of Information Co-ordinator

North Lanarkshire Council

Civic Centre

Windmillhill Street

Motherwell

ML1 1AB

 

Working from home

Please contact via email

 

 

 

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