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£40m in a loan from the Treasury
13 April 2023
Your request
On the 2nd February, Lambeth Council took out £40m in a loan from the Treasury.
a) Please could you tell me what this was for?
b) Is this answer the same as the reason for taking out the loan that was given to the Treasury?
Our response
The council borrows in line with its treasury and cash management strategies and not for specific projects or programme.
Public tennis courts
Information on fees associated with the use of public tennis courts in the borough.Question on housing density
05 October 2023
Your request
I'm hoping to get information on housing estate density for Lambeth to aid with research into estate regeneration. As an excel file, please can you provide the following for each estate owned by the council:
• land area (for example in hectares)
• number of dwellings
• Address or post code
Recruitment
27 June 2023
Your request
1. How many permanent/FTC hires did you make in the calendar year 2022?
2. How do you manage permanent recruitment? E.g. internal team, outsourced etc.
3. If outsourced, what service do they provide and who is your service provider, when does the contract end?
4. How much did you spend in a year on permanent recruitment to the nearest £100k for 2022/23?? Please include any advertising costs and fees paid to agencies.
5. How many agency hires in a year did you make in 2022?
Recruitment policy and selection framework
27 March 2023
Your request
Please can you share an up to date recruitment policy and selection framework (specifically any information you have around your approach to diverse interview panels) as I have been unable to access this via your website.
Referrals to children's services in the local authority during 2018/19 where gangs are identified as a factor at assessment.
09 January 2020
Request
- The number of recorded referrals to children's services in the local authority during 2018/19 where gangs are identified as a factor at assessment. Please could you break this figure down by gender.Response
Contacts with Gang violence recorded as a presenting need between April 2018 and March 2019
Female
203
Indeterminate
Referrals to children's social care
01 March 2022
Your request & our response
- How many referrals to children’s social care at your LA were made by schools / a member of staff from a school in the past four years? Please can I have this information presented with a breakdown of calendar year.
This information is available in the government publication. Please click here to access the information.
Replacement scheme to the Social Fund
07 April 2022
Your request & our response
- how much funding has the Council / Authority allocated in its budget each year since April 2013 for its replacement scheme to the Social Fund (please do not include funding for dealing with the Covid 19 pandemic);
2013/14: £1,588,613
2014/15: £2,696,613
2015/16: £1,676,613
2016/17: £1,074,000
2017/18: £700,000
2018/19: £265,689
Reported potholes
Information on reported potholes in Lambeth, including location, money spent on repairs and on compensation.Request FOI performance
11 September 2023
Your request
Please supply me the following information under FOI. In all cases this should be data for the full year 2019,2020,2021 and 2022, and the six months to 30 June 2023:
1. The number of logged FOI requests received by the authority;
2. The number of requests answered to the statutory deadline;
3. The number of requests answered more than one month late;
4. The number of requests not answered at all;
5. Details of the longest running request;
6. The number of internal reviews received; and