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
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
Good Afternoon,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information Request ENQ-258358-Y1H8N2
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 received on 27 July 2018.
Lewis Freeman will be dealing with your request.
We have up to 20 days in which to deal with your request. If we require
clarification regarding your request, we will contact you to explain this.
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Sarah Cooper, Business Support Assistant
Information Compliance Team
Dept: 01603 222661
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Dear Information Management 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
Dear Mr Davies
I apologise for the delay in this request.
I am still awaiting the information that you have requested and have been
following this up with the service. They are aware that the request is
overdue, so I am expecting this information as a matter of priority.
As soon as I have received the information, and it has been approved, I
will pass this on to you.
Yours sincerely
Emma Gedge, compliance officer
Information Management Technology
Dept: 01603 222661
Room B043, County Hall, Norwich
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Ms Gedge,
I have not yet received a response to my FOI request, relating to capital receipts and redundancies, dated 27 July 2018.
By law the council should have responded promptly and by 28 August 2018, 20 days ago. I have since sent a follow-up email requesting a response without success.
Could you provide me with an update by 5pm today (September 17)?
Yours sincerely,
Gareth Davies
Dear Mr Davies
Freedom of Information Request ENQ-
I refer to your request for information dated ENQ-258358-Y1H8N2. I
apologise for the delay in providing you with a response to your request.
Your questions and our responses are set out below:
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
2014/15 £9.185m
2015/16 £2.087m
2016/17 £3.153m
2017/18 £1.563m
2018/19 (up until 31-Aug-2018) £0.429m
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
2014/15 i) £0.000m ii)£9.813m iii)£0.000m iv)£0.000m
2015/16 i) £0.000m ii)£3.754m iii)£0.000m iv)£0.000m
2016/17 i) £0.000m ii)£0.000m iii)£0.000m iv)£0.000m
2017/18 i) £6.000m ii)£0.751m iii)£0.000m iv)£0.000m
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
None
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
None
E) The number of redundancies made by the local authority in each
financial year broken down by the service they relate to
Grand
Department 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 Total
Adult
Social
Services 46 84 7 3 3 3 146
CES 9 71 27 36 51 17 211
Children's
Services 5 62 8 50 7 23 155
Finance
and
Commercial
Services 17 30 41 19 8 2 117
Managing
Director's
Department 15 13 12 14 4 58
Grand
Total 77 262 96 120 83 49 687
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Yours sincerely
Information Compliance Officer
Information Management Service
Norfolk County Council
County Hall
Martineau Lane
Norwich
NR1 2DH
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