Amenity Pesticide Use

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Kate Basley
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Dear North Ayrshire Council,

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information.

1. Please provide the following information on amenity pesticide usage:
a. A list of the pesticides you use (brand name, and active ingredient), this should include insecticides, fungicides, molluscicides and herbicides.
b. The COSHH assessment form for each of the pesticides you use.
c. Where these chemicals are used, i.e parks, road verges, pavements, tree bases etc.
d. Annual quantities of each pesticide used over the past 5 years. Please include the total amount of each used both by the council internally and externally through contractors.
e. Please also confirm the concentrations of each pesticide used at application.

2. What strategies does the council have in place to reduce the use of these pesticides? Please provide detail on these efforts including dates and costings where possible.

3. How much has the council spent on purchasing and spraying amenity pesticides over the past 5 years? Please include staff costs of people employed to undertake this (either contractors or council staff), personal protective equipment, safety training, spray equipment, hazard signs, etc.

If it is not possible to provide the information requested above for any reason, I would be grateful for any further advice or assistance as to how I can refine my request. If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs as necessary.

If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.

Yours faithfully,

Kate Basley

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Dear Kate Basley

Thank you for your correspondence which was received by North Ayrshire
Council, requesting information.

North Ayrshire Council acknowledges receipt of your request and will
respond to you within 20 working days as required by the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (please note day 1 of your request is the
first working day after receipt of your request). We will contact you if
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Yours sincerely

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Dear Ms Basley,

Thank you for your request for information dated 13th August 2020 which
was received by North Ayrshire Council on 13th August 2020.

We have now completed our research for the information and the responses
to your questions are listed below.

Please see attached.

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Kate Basley
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Dear FOI Team,

Thank you for the information you have sent through in answer to my FOI request. Regarding Question 3: the amount spent on the purchase and use of pesticides, if I were to narrow my request down to the cost of purchase of pesticides alone (over the last 5 years), would this information be available?

Thank you very much for your help with this matter.

Best wishes,
Kate

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Dear Kate,

 

Thank you for your email dated 10^th September 2020.

 

I can confirm that the service has advised we do not hold this information
overall.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Samantha Alexander

FOI/EIR Co-ordinator

 

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Dear FOI Team,

 

Thank you for the information you have sent through in answer to my FOI request. Regarding Question 3: the amount spent on the purchase and use of pesticides, if I were to narrow my request down to the cost of purchase of pesticides alone (over the last 5 years), would this information be available?

 

Thank you very much for your help with this matter.

 

Best wishes,

Kate

 

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