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

Melton Borough Council

Our Ref: 836854

Directline: 01664 502 502

Email: [1][email address

Date: 31/07/2018

Mr Gareth Davies,
 

Dear Mr Davies,

Freedom of Information Request

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 dated 27/07/2018. We can confirm receipt of your
request and we will be issuing a response within 20 working days.

In the meantime, if I can be of any further assistance then please do not
hesitate to contact me.

Yours Sincerely,

Natalie Roberts
Customer Services Teamleader

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David Scott, Melton Borough Council

Dear Gareth,

Could I just check in light of the answers to the following questions would you still like a full answer to this FOI as we don’t use capital receipts to finance redundancy costs?

Biii - Nil
C - Nil
D - Nil

Many thanks,

David Scott
Corporate Services Manager
Melton Borough Council
[email address]

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CSC FOI, Melton Borough Council

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Hi,

Please find attached the response to this FOI.

Thanks,

David Scott

Corporate Services Manager

Melton Borough Council

[1][email address]

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FOI Summary: Original email will be sent separately From: Gareth Davies
[mailto:[FOI #502070 email]] Sent: 27 July 2018 15:15 To: CSC FOI Subject:
Freedom of Information request - Capital receipts and redundancies 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 .

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