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 Officer, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Sirs

Thank you for your request for information (FOI 46315) submitted under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which has been given the above mentioned reference number. Please quote this on any correspondence regarding your request.

Stockport Council will respond to your request within 20 working days from the date of receipt. If there will be a charge for disbursements e.g. photocopying in order to provide the information, we will inform you as soon as possible to see if you wish to proceed; however such charges are usually waived if they amount to less than £10.

Yours sincerely,
Fahmida Firdaws
Advanced Apprentice
Information Governance, Stopford House (UG South) Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, SK1 3XE
Tel: 0161 474 4299

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FOI Officer, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear Mr Davies,

I am writing in response to your request for information (ref FOI 46316).

The relevant Council Service(s) has searched for the requested information
and our response is as follows

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

2018/19* 2017/18 2016/17 2015/16 2014/15
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Total capital receipts
A received 901 6,872 4,005 4,017 7,979
Capital receipts used to
repay debt or meet
B i) liabilities (1,393) (574) (527) (424)
Capital receipts used to
finance capital
B ii) expenditure (1,628) (818) (1,488) (6,019)
Capital receipts used to
finance revenue
B iii) expenditure 0 0 0 0
Capital receipts used to
finance Equal Pay
Directions (Section
16(2)(b) directions not
B iv) given or not used) 0 0 0 0
Pooling of housing capital
B iv) receipts (2,921) (1,856) (1,810) (1,471)
C None
D None

E Number of redundancies 30 119 67 38
Adult Social Care 2 61 7 3
Central Services to the public 0 1 0 0
Central Support Services 2 3 3 3
Childrens & Educational Services 14 30 34 22
Cultural & Related Services 3 0 6 0
Environmental & Regulatory Services 0 1 14 2
Highways & Transport Services 0 0 3 1
Housing (General Fund) Services 1 0 0 4
Planning Services 7 13 0 3
Public Health 1 10 0 0
Grand Total 30 119 67 38
* Quarter 1 only

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Yours sincerely,

William Monaghan

CSS Officer – Business Support

Information Governance

Stopford House – Second Floor South

0161 474 2899

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Hannah Egginton, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

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Good morning,

I have attached some information that could be useful.

Hannah Egginton

Economy, Work & Skills

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

 

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