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    • FOI request (FOI-66606652)

      Pest control services

      Requested Thu 25 January 2018
      Responded Tue 19 June 2018

      I am writing under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act to request the following information regarding pest control services supplied to residents and businesses within your council jurisdiction.

      For all questions, please provide information SEPARATELY FOR EACH OF THE LAST FOUR FINANCIAL YEARS where possible.

      1. For each year, please state whether you provided in-house public pest control services and/ or used services supplied by external contractors (contracted to the council).

      Year

      In-house services

      Contracted services

      2013-14

      Y / N

      Y / N

      2014-15

      Y / N

      Y / N

      2015-16

      Y / N

      Y / N

      2016-17

      Y / N

      Y / N

      2. What was your annual budget each year for environmental health and for public pest control in particular? Please state these separately and indicate whether the figure provided for the environmental health budget includes the figure for the public pest control budget
       

      Year

      Environmental Health budget

      Pest Control budget

      Pest Control budget included in Environmental Health budget

      2013-14

       

       

      Y / N

      2014-15

       

       

      Y / N

      2015-16

       

       

      Y / N

      2016-17

       

       

      Y / N

       3. What was a) your gross annual expenditure and b) your gross annual revenue each year from offering public pest control services? 

      Year

      Gross annual expenditure

      Gross annual revenue

      2013-14

       

       

      2014-15

       

       

      2015-16

       

       

      2016-17

       

       

      4. What was the total number of pest control requests that your in-house or contracted operators responded to each year? These include call-out visits, treatments and repeat treatments, but exclude advice provided via telephone or e-mail. Please give the number of requests for each of the following species (where applicable); if services are not provided for a particular species, please state N/A:
       

      Species

      2013-14

      2014-15

      2015-16

      2016-17

      Rats

       

       

       

       

      Mice

       

       

       

       

      Wasps

       

       

       

       

      Foxes

       

       

       

       

      Pigeons

       

       

       

       

      Squirrels

       

       

       

       

      Moles

       

       

       

       

      Gulls

       

       

       

       

       

      Please note that the information provided in response to the Freedom of Information requests will be analysed by Humane Society International/UK and University of Oxford for research purposes and summaries of the data analysis will be shared and published. The data will not be used for commercial purposes.


      Response

      Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding, we have introduced a new Freedom of Information system and have experienced a few problems.
      1. For each year, please state whether you provided in-house public pest control services and/ or used services supplied by external contractors (contracted to the council).

      Year

      In-house services

      Contracted services

      2013-14

      Y

      N

      2014-15

      Y

      N

      2015-16

      Y

      N

      2016-17

      Y

      N

       

      1. What was your annual budget each year for environmental health and for public pest control in particular? Please state these separately and indicate whether the figure provided for the environmental health budget includes the figure for the public pest control budget

       

      Year

      Environmental Health budget

      Pest Control budget

      Pest Control budget included in Environmental Health budget

      2013-14

       £846,110

      £106,520

      Y

      2014-15

       £781,150

      £99,670

      Y

      2015-16

       £793,340

      £62,450

      Y

      2016-17

       £737,978

      £54,370

      Y

       

       

      1. What was a) your gross annual expenditure and b) your gross annual revenue each year from offering public pest control services? 

      Year

      Gross annual expenditure

      Gross annual revenue

      2013-14

       £47,527.29

      £11,637.60

      2014-15

       £81,400.93

      £13,606.24

      2015-16

       £65,889.93

      £12,029.62

      2016-17

       £65,367.14

      £10,996.57

      1. What was the total number of pest control requests that your in-house or contracted operators responded to each year? These include call-out visits, treatments and repeat treatments, but exclude advice provided via telephone or e-mail. Please give the number of requests for each of the following species (where applicable); if services are not provided for a particular species, please state N/A:  

       N/A

      Species

      2013-14

      2014-15

      2015-16

      2016-17

      Rats

       614

       726

       698

       785

      Mice

       38

       43

       41

       15

      Wasps

       55

       83

       61

       67

      Foxes

       N/A

      N/A 

      N/A 

       N/A

      Pigeons

       N/A

       N/A

       N/A

       N/A

      Squirrels

       N/A

       N/A

       N/A

       N/A

      Moles

       N/A

       N/A

       N/A

      Gulls

       N/A

       N/A

       N/A

       N/A

       

       

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