Fixed Penalty Notices

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Dear Sir / Madam,

Please can you tell me the number of fixed penalty notices for litter that were issued by your authority for the years 2011 - 2016. Can you please break these figures down by year.

Please can you also provide the total number of fixed penalty notices issued by Birmingham for all other offences (excluding parking PCNs)

if possible can you break these down by:

Number paid within lower amount period
Number paid at full amount
Number of prosecutions

Yours faithfully,

Dr Adam Snow

FOI Mailbox, Birmingham City Council

Dear Mr Snow

 

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Dear Mr Snow

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION – FOI15229

 

I am writing in respect of your recent enquiry, detailed below, for
information held by the Authority under the provisions of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.    Please find below our responses to your
questions.  

 

REQUEST

 

Please can you tell me the number of fixed penalty notices for litter that
were issued by your authority for the years 2011 - 2016.   Can you please
break these figures down by year.

 

Please can you also provide the total number of fixed penalty notices
issued by Birmingham for all other offences (excluding parking PCNs)

 

if possible can you break these down by:

 

Number paid within lower amount period

Number paid at full amount

Number of prosecutions

 

RESPONSE

 

Please find attached the return for the FPNs served and recorded by
Regulatory Services.

 

 

1.       We are unable to provide details of whether FPNs served before
Nov 2013 were paid at the full or lower amounts without making a manual
search of the database and this will take more than 18 hours. (NB The 4
Other FPN’s served in 2012 and marked as paid related to trading standards
matters and the Operations Manager who collated the information was able
to recall payment.)

 

2.       The payment of a lower amount was removed in April 2014 for all
FPNs other than those served under the Health Act 2006.

 

 

Details of the outcomes of all criminal prosecution cases submitted to the
Courts are publically available and are available within the minutes of
the monthly meeting of the City Council’s Licensing and Public protection
Committee. These will include those that relate to the original issue of a
fixed penalty notice.  These are normally defined by the statement
“offence of dropping” in the Offence Details column.  The prosecution will
have been taken under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Reports from
2015 are available by accessing the following link:
[1]https://birmingham.cmis.uk.com/birmingham/ .   I attach a zip file
containing copies of these reports from 2011 – 2015.

 

 

If you are not satisfied with the response you may ask for an internal
review.  To do this, please contact Birmingham City Council's central FOI
Team at this address:

 

Corporate DP/FOI Team

Performance and Information (WS)

PO Box 16366

Birmingham

B2 2YY

 

Tel:  0121 303 4876

Email:  [2][Birmingham City Council request email]

 

If subsequently you are not satisfied with the Council’s decision you may
apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the ICO
cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure
provided by the Council. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at
the following address:

 

The Information Commissioner

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Telephone: 01625 545745

Web Address: [3]www.ico.gov.uk

 

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The information you have provided within your Freedom of Information
request will be held on our database and may also be held within manual
records for a period of 2 years from the date Birmingham City Council
received your request. Any personal data that you provide to Birmingham
City Council will be held in line with the requirements set out within the
Data Protection Act 1998.

 

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however, it may be re-used for personal, educational or non-commercial
purposes without further reference to the City Council. If the re-use is
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Birmingham City Council

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