FOI request (FOIR-733177120)

SWEP activation

Requested Tue 22 July 2025
Responded Fri 12 September 2025

For the period 1st June to 30th September in the years 2022, 2023, and 2024, and the period 1st June to 18 July in 2025, please provide the following information for Hastings Borough Council:

1. The number of times Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) was activated during these periods.

2. For each time that SWEP was activated, please provide the dates when it was in place.

3. Basic information about what the council’s SWEP involved during each period that it was activated (for example, were cooling spaces provided? Was water handed out?). If this information is not available, or providing it would exceed the statutory time limit on this FOI request, please just respond to questions 1 and 2 (above).

4. Number of people that were assisted through the SWEP. If this information is not available, or providing it would exceed the statutory time limit on FOI requests, please just respond to questions 1 and 2 (above).

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Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

Hastings Borough Council holds no information in respect of this request.

SWEP was not activated during the time frame requested.