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

Freedom of Information, Mid Sussex District Council

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Dear Mr Davies,

 

Thank you for your request. Please see our response below.

 

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

 

For A-D please see attached spreadsheet.

 

E) The number of redundancies made by the local authority in each
financial year broken down by the service they relate to

 

Year No. of Redundancies Service Area

(incl. CR & VR)
April 2014 – March 1 CenSus Revenues & Benefits
2015 1 Performance & Partnerships
April 2015 – March 1 Property & Asset
2016
  1 CenSus Revenues & Benefits
April 2016 – March 1 Strategic Management
2017 1 Community Services & Culture
1 Housing Needs
April 2017 – March 3 CenSus Revenues & Benefits
2018
April 2018 – to date 4 Commercial Services & Contracts
12 CenSus Revenues & Benefits

 

 

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yours sincerely,

 

FOI/DPA Team

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Dear Freedom of Information officer,

Thank you for the reply to my FOI request.

Unfortunately I do not understand the response to question (E) in the format it has been provided. Can it be re-sent making it clear how many redundancies occurred each year.

Yours sincerely,

Gareth Davies

Freedom of Information, Mid Sussex District Council

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opened and read by us. If the email contains a request for information,
the 20 working day countdown will start on the first working day after
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The request may be subject to an exemption, which the Authority is
entitled to apply to refuse the request. We will notify you if this is the
case.

 

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fee be paid for processing and delivering the information to you. Details
of any fee to be charged will be notified to you as soon as possible.

 

Any future correspondence you may have in relation to this matter should
be sent to the Senior Information Governance Officer, Mid Sussex District
Council, Oaklands, Oaklands Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH16 1SS or
by return to this email.

 

Information provided under the FOI Act 2000 or the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004 may be not be re-used, except for personal
study and non-commercial research or for news reporting and reviews,
without the permission of the Council. Please see the Council website
[1]http://www.midsussex.gov.uk/my-council/f... for
further information or contact The Digital and Customer Services Team on
01444 477422.

 

 

The information contained in this email may be subject to public
disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the
information contained in this email is legally exempt from disclosure, we
cannot guarantee that we will not provide the whole or part of this email
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of this email. This email and any attachments may contain confidential
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addressees. If you are not the named addressee, any use, disclosure,
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Dear Mr Davies,

It seems the email stripped out the table that the data was in. We have moved the dates to the right places.

April 2014 – March 2015
1 CenSus Revenues & Benefits
1 Performance & Partnerships

April 2015 – March 2016
1 Property & Asset
1 CenSus Revenues & Benefits

April 2016 – March 2017 -
1 Strategic Management
1 Community Services & Culture
1 Housing Needs

April 2017 – March 2018
3 CenSus Revenues & Benefits

April 2018 – to date
4 Commercial Services & Contracts
12 CenSus Revenues & Benefits

yours sincerely,

FOI/DPA Team
Digital and Customer Services
01444 477422
[Mid Sussex District Council request email]
http://www.midsussex.gov.uk/my-council/f...
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