Dear Ms Wilkins

Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulations request: FOI-8772

Thank you for your request dated 21 October 2017

Your request will be answered by 20 November 2017

If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the reference number above.

Yours sincerely,

Jackie Jago
Head of Corporate Services
Corporate Services
Directorate of Central Services
Royal Borough of Greenwich

020 8921 5044
 Room 20 Basement The Town Hall, Wellington Street, London SE18 6PW
www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk

Dear Ms Wilkins,

Freedom of Information request: FOI - 8772

Please accept our apologies for the delay in providing a response to your Freedom of Information request. This is taking more time than expected due to technological issues prevent access to the information and we will forward the response to you in the next week or so.

Yours sincerely,

Jackie Jago
Head of Corporate Services
Central Services
Royal Borough of Greenwich

020 8921 5044
 Room 20, Basement, Town Hall, Wellington Street, Woolwich, London SE18 6PW
www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk

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Dear Ms Wilkins

Freedom of Information request: FOI - 8772

Please accept our apologies for the further delay in providing a response to your Freedom of Information request. This is taking more time than expected due to technological issues prevent access to the information and we will forward the response to you by the end of next week.

Yours sincerely,

Jackie Jago
Head of Corporate Services
Central Services
Royal Borough of Greenwich

020 8921 5044
 Room 20, Basement, Town Hall, Wellington Street, Woolwich, London SE18 6PW
www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk

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Dear Ms Wilkins

Freedom of Information request:  FOI-8772

Thank you for your request dated 21 October 2017

Our response is as follows:

How much has the Council spent on fire safety since the Grenfell fire (14
June 2017)? How does this compare with the same period in 2016, 2015,
2014, 2013 and 2012?

How much has the Council spent on compensating residents for additional
heating costs as a result of cladding removal that has taken place since
the Grenfell fire?

What percentage of the overall Council budget has been spent on fire
safety since the Grenfell fire (14 June 2017) and how does this compare
with the percentage of the overall Council budget spent on fire safety
over the same period in 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012?

What percentage of the overall Council budget has been spent on fire
safety this year (2017 or from the beginning of the current budgetary
period) and how does this compare with the percentage of the overall
Council budget spent on fire safety in each of the last five years (2016,
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 or the corresponding budgetary periods)?

How much money has the Council received from Central Government since
Grenfell Fire to help with extra related costs since the fire?

Thank you for your request for information in regards to the Council’s
spend on fire safety and please accept our apologies for the delay in
providing a response..

The way in which the Council records the work we have carried out to our
properties does not allow us to specifically identify all works which are
attributed to fire safety.   The majority of expenditure on improvements
to the Council’s housing stock is via the Council’s Capital Works
Programmes.  These programmes are not explicitly in regards to fire safety
work, but will have included elements of fire safety within their
specifications i.e. communal lighting upgrades, block re-wiring, communal
re-decorations.

The Council’s Capital Works expenditure for the last 5 years is shown
below:

Year Total Cost
2016/17 £28.345m
2015/16 £37.684m
2014/15 £34.036m
2013/14 £29.293m
2012/13 £23.103m

In addition to our Capital Works Programme, the Council undertakes Fire
Risk Assessments and associated reactive works in compliance with the
Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.  These particular works are
recorded separately and a spend of £216,331.65 was recorded for the period
of 14^th June 2017 to 23^rd October 2017.  The figures for the same period
in 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012 are shown below:

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Reactive expenditure on Fire |Reactive expenditure on Fire Safety -|
|Safety - 14th June to 23rd October| |
| 2017 | Financial Year 2012 – to date |
|----------------------------------+-------------------------------------|
| Year | £ | Year | £ |
|--------------+-------------------+------------------+------------------|
| | | 2017-2018 | |
| 2017 | 216,331.65 | | 403,931.65 |
| | | (to date) | |
|--------------+-------------------+------------------+------------------|
| 2016 | 163,134.36 | 2016-2017 | 573,286.07 |
|--------------+-------------------+------------------+------------------|
| 2015 | 290,343.64 | 2015-2016 | 778,598.63 |
|--------------+-------------------+------------------+------------------|
| 2014 | 203,792.46 | 2014-2015 | 745,110.50 |
|--------------+-------------------+------------------+------------------|
| 2013 | 10,352.62 | 2013-2014 | 152,038.82 |
|--------------+-------------------+------------------+------------------|
| 2012 | 131,389.75 | 2012-2013 | 131,389.75 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The Royal Borough of Greenwich has not spent any money compensating
residents for additional heating as none of the Royal Borough’s buildings
are clad with the Reynobond aluminium cladding system, cladding has not
been removed. 

The Royal Borough of Greenwich has received no funding from Central
Government since Grenfell Fire to help with extra related costs.

If you have any queries about this correspondence, please contact me,
quoting the reference number above.

If you are not satisfied with our response to your request, you can ask
for an Internal Review.  Internal review requests should be submitted
within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your original
request.  If you wish to do this, please contact us, setting out why you
are dissatisfied.

If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the Internal Review, you may
apply directly to the Information Commissioner (ICO) for a decision. 
Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the
Internal Review procedure provided by the Council. You can contact the ICO
by emailing [1][email address], or by post at Customer Contact,
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely,

Jackie Jago

Head of Corporate Services

Corporate Services

Directorate of Central Services

Royal Borough of Greenwich

' 020 8921 5044

*   Room 20 Basement The Town Hall, Wellington Street, London SE18 6PW

8 www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk

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