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Contact with Liz Watts
29 May 2023
Your request
This is an information request relating to whether the council has been in contact with researchers and campaigners for a four day working week
Please include the following information:
Whether or not the council has been in contact with Liz Watts, a PhD student from the University of West of England and chief executive of SCDC, regarding a four-day working week trial
If so, please provide the following details:
who contacted whom first,
why contact was made,
Correspondence between Lambeth Council and Southwark Council
20 December 2020
Your request
Any correspondence between Lambeth council and Southwark council concerning the lower traffic neighbourhood in Dulwich and its effect on roads within Lambeth (for example Croxted Road which is half Southwark and half Lambeth) in 2021.
Any meetings held by Lambeth councillors and/or officers with Southwark councillors and/or officers about the lower traffic neighbourhood in Dulwich and its effect on roads within Lambeth (for example Croxted Road which is half Southwark and half Lambeth) in 2021.
Cost of school placements
21 March 2022
Your request
I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act relating to the High Needs budget.
Just to be clear I'd like all of these questions below to cover from 2016/17 academic year (so from September 1, 2016) until today in an Excel spreadsheet.
1. The number of places commissioned at non-maintained special schools by the LA per academic year (AY).
Costs for services regarding adult autism and learning disability
09 October 2023
Your request
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, I would like to make the following request for information relating to adult autism and learning disability in your local authority.
Question 1
The average (arithmetic mean in £ and pence) rate you pay for externally provided adult learning disability and autism services (not your in-house services) for each of the service types as follows:
Council house waiting list
20 June 2022
Your request & our response
Of the people currently on the council's waiting list for social housing, I would like you to provide me with the longest wait time (in years and months) for council housing - i.e. the length of time that the person who has been on the list the longest has waited.
Council owned pubs
28 July 2023
Your request
1. Under an FOI can you advise how many public houses the council owns in total, the number of any that were purchased in the last decade, and where the pubs you own are located?
2. Under an FOI can you tell us how many licenses permitting the sale of Alcohol for both “on and off” sales there were issued in Lambeth on the following dates
a. on 1st April 2016 for businesses operating in Lambeth. e.g., 50 on trade - 50 off trade (total 100)
Council software
Software used by the councilCouncil tax exemptions
06 May 2022
Your request & our response
1. How many applications for council tax exemption have been received in the last 12 months?
We cannot provide an accurate figure as exemption requests are received through a variety of channels, and often form part of a general query or move notification either into, within, or out of the borough.
Council use of bailiffs
28 July 2023
Your request
This request relates to enforcement agents (also known as "bailiffs") that have been used by the council.
1. (a) Between 01 January 2020 and 30 June 2023, how many times have bailiffs been deployed by the council? Please break this down by year.
(b) How many individuals does this relate to?
(c) How many companies does this relate to?
2. In cases where the council deployed bailiffs during this period (01 January 2020 and 30 June 2023) how much debt did this relate to, in total?
Council vegan catering options
02 May 2023
Your request
With regard to the Public Sector Equality Duty, does your decision-making regarding the provision of food take into account the fact that veganism is a protected characteristic for the purpose of the Equality Act 2010? Yes/No
How many vegan hot and cold meal options do you offer:
In your own local authority canteen every day (if you have one)? 0, 1, 2, 3 or more. Please also express this as a proportion of the overall number of options offered.
In external events catering (if applicable)? Eg: 0, 1, 2, 3 or more.