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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:  

    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

     N/A

    Gulls

     N/A

     N/A

     N/A

     N/A

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