Capital receipts and redundancies

The request was successful.

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 the date on which you received this request) I request the following information:

A) The total amount of capital receipts (in £) received by the council following the disposal of any type of asset

B) A breakdown of the use of capital receipts within each financial year by the following three 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 March 2016 - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...)
iv) Other

C) A list of service reforms financed through capital receipts since flexible use of capital receipts was introduced in March 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

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

Haringey Borough Council

Dear Mr Davies

 

Freedom of Information / Environmental Information Regulations Request:
LBH/7700818

 

I acknowledge your request for information received on 27 July 2018.

 

This information request will be dealt with in accordance with the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations and we
will send the response by 24 August 2018

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

Feedback and Information Governance

 

Shared Service Centre | Central Team

Haringey Council 

Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London N22 7TR

 

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Dear Mr Davies,

Re: Freedom of Information Act Request ref: LBH/7700818

 

Thank you for your request for information received on 27 July 2018, in
which you asked for the following information:

 

For each of the following financial years: 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17,
2017/18, 2018/19 (up to the date on which you received this request) I
request the following information:

 

A) The total amount of capital receipts (in £) received by the council
following the disposal of any type of asset

 

B) A breakdown of the use of capital receipts within each financial year
by the following three 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
March 2016 -
[1]https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...)

iv) Other

 

C) A list of service reforms financed through capital receipts since
flexible use of capital receipts was introduced in March 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

 

My response is as follows:

 

The information for A), B), C) (i) (ii) (iii), D and E is included in the
attached spreadsheet.

 

In respect of C (iv) I can confirm that we hold the information that you
have requested however it is not in a readily accessible format.  However,
from our initial consideration of your request, we have estimated that it
will cost more than the ‘appropriate limit’ to consider your request.

 

Section 12 of the Act allows public authorities to refuse requests for
information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the
appropriate limit, which for local government is set at £450. This
represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in
determining whether the department holds the information, locating,
retrieving and extracting the information.

 

In this instance we have estimated that it will cost £900 to provide you
with the required information. This amount is therefore over the
appropriate limit as specified in the regulations and consequently we are
not obliged by the Freedom of Information Act to respond to your request. 
We will not therefore be processing your request further.

 

The fee has been calculated as follows:

 

 

Task Estimated Hours
number of multiplied
Hours by £25
Determining  0  0
whether the
information
is held
Locating  7h 20  £183
the mins
information
Retrieving  14h 20  £358
the mins
information
Extracting  14h 20  £358
the mins
information
from other
documents
Total  36 hours  £900

 

 

If you are unhappy with how we have responded to your request you can ask
us to conduct an Internal Review. If so, please contact the [2]Feedback
and Information Team. (Please note you should do so within two months of
this response.)

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Alex Altman

Finance Manager

Shared Service Centre | Finance

 

Haringey Council

Alexandra House, Level 1, 10 Station Road, London, N22 7TR

Telephone:  020 8489 4547

Email: [3][email address]

 

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