FOI request (FOI-66606652)

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).

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

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: 

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.

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).

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

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

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: