FOI request (FOIR-754871292)

Pest control services

Requested Mon 06 October 2025
Responded Thu 23 October 2025

Please provide the following information for the period 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2025, broken down by financial year:

1. Total expenditure by the council on pest control services, including both in-house provision and external/contracted services.

2. If any services are contracted out, please provide the supplier name(s) and the contract value(s).

3. The number of call-outs/treatments by species category (for example, rats, mice, pigeons, gulls, foxes, grey squirrels, wasps, bedbugs, cockroaches - Please use your own categories if recorded differently).

4. For any lethal control commissioned or carried out by the council, the number of animals killed by species and, where recorded, the method used (for example, trapping, poisoning, shooting).

5. A copy of any policy, guidance, or standard operating procedure relating to the council’s pest control service or contractors.

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Response

1.

2020-21 - £38,769

2021-22 - £46,731

2022-23 - £56,950

2023-24 - £63,825

2024-25 - £62,757

2. No services outsourced.

3. Please see the attached information – Please note we only hold information for 2023/4 and 2024/5 due to our data retention policy.

4. Species would be rats, mice, fleas, wasps and bed bugs (we do not hold records of numbers). Method would be rodenticides and insecticides. We do not trap or shoot.

5. Information not held.

Attachments

• FOIR-754871292_FOIR-754871292_1-PC_total_number_2020_-_2025.xlsx