Environmental Health Officers
Dear Sir or Madam,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
For each of the financial years 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 please provide me with the following:
1. The total number of staff employed (directly or indirectly) by the local authority to inspect residential properties for category 1 or 2 hazards.
2. Of (1), the total number who were qualified Environmental Health Officers.
3. The total number of inspections carried out by either (1) or (2) to see whether category 1 or 2 hazards exist in residential properties which are owned by the council or social housing providers, or privately rented. (Please refer to section four of the Housing Act 2004 if in doubt about the nature of the inspections.)
4. The total number of complaints that the local authority has received about hazards or poor conditions in residential properties which are owned by the council or social housing providers, or privately rented.
I would like to receive the information in a spreadsheet. If you feel that a substantive response to this request is not possible within a reasonable time frame, or the request is too broad, I would be grateful if you could contact me by email or telephone (07480728436) and provide assistance as to how I could refine the request.
Thank you,
Adam Bychawski
Information request
Our reference: IRN18301200
Your reference: [FOI #988711 email]
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Dear Adam Bychawski
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request for information that was received on 8 June
2023.
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Information request
Our reference: IRN18301200
Your reference: [FOI #988711 email]
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Dear Adam Bychawski,
Thank you for your request for information received on 8 June 2023.
I am very sorry for the delay in providing this information. Please find
attached our response to your request.
Yours faithfully
FOI Team
London Borough of Lambeth
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Lambeth - a Co-operative Council
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