Capital receipts and redundancies

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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 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

foi, Hyndburn Borough Council

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Dear foi team,

I have not yet received a response to my FOI request dated 27 July 2018.
By law the council should have responded promptly and by 28 August 2018.
Could you provide an update as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

Gareth Davies

foi, Hyndburn Borough Council

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Dear  Mr. Davies,

Your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 has
been considered and a response follows:

A. The total capital receipts received are £2,334,260.

I have attached a breakdown for each year.

B. All receipts in each year have been used to invest in new capital
expenditure.

C No capital receipts have been used to fund service transformation.

D No capital receipts have been used to finance redundancies.

E Not applicable.

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Services, Hyndburn Borough Council, Scaitcliffe House, Ormerod Street,
Accrington, Lancashire BB5 0PF or:  [1][email address

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Information Commissioner's Office

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FOI Co-ordinator

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Dear foi team,

Thank you for the response to FOI 5854.

Could you clarify your answer to question (E)?

Does this mean the council has made no redundancies at all during the period in question or none that were funded by capital receipts.

The question was about all redundancies.

Yours sincerely,

Gareth Davies

foi, Hyndburn Borough Council

Thank you - I have referred this back to the Officer and will contact you again once I have a response.

FOI Co-ordinator

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foi, Hyndburn Borough Council

Dear Mr. Davies,

On reconsideration of question 'e' of your FOI request the following response has been provided. I apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Q.E - numbers of redundancies can be found on the website in the statement of accounts under Officers Remuneration and exit packages. Unfortunately the information is not held by service area.

https://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/download-p...

FOI Co-ordinator

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