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Responses to information requests

We publish responses to requests made under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA) that are of wider public interest. In most instances, the name of the individual requester has been redacted to protect their privacy.

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2025 responses Reporting statistics Previous responses

Latest published responses

The table below shows the published responses to information requests during 2025 so far.

Subject Response Date
Mayor’s motor vehicle expenses
(619KB PDF)		 IRC-7984 March
Vacant and derelict properties
(578KB PDF)		 IRC-7925 March
Average rates revenue
(604KB PDF)		 IRC-7962 March
Building inspection
(210KB PDF)		 IRC-7865 March
Pops of Positive 
(814KB PDF)		 IRC-7922 March
Rainbow crossing costs
(133KB PDF) 		 IRC-7958 March
CE recruitment
(144KB PDF) 		 IRC-7983 March
Portaloos
(139KB PDF) 		 IRC-8063 March
Consultant spend 
(596KB PDF)		 IRC-7846 March
S17c roading review
(1.13MB PDF)		 IRC-8107 March
Funds for tourism payments
(591KB PDF) 		 IRC-7959 March
Crown Observer report
(606KB PDF)		 IRC-8178 March
Emission rates 
(556KB PDF)		 IRC-7709 February
Public art 
(1.97MB PDF)		 IRC-7612 February
Green party communications
(3.50MB PDF)		 IRC-7664 January
Tākina Dr Who
(125KB PDF) 		 IRC-7520 January

Summary of responses

2024: July – December

This table shows information about requests received by the Official Information Team under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA) during the period 1 July – 31 December 2024.

1 July – 31 December 2024 Total
LGOIMA received 395
LGOIMA decision sent within statutory timeframe 381 (96.46%)
Number of responses published 19
Average working days taken to make decision 19
LGOIMA extensions 95 (24%)
LGOIMA refused 78
LGOIMA transferred to another agency 11 (3%)

Summary of LGOIMA responses for current and previous years: Excel format (21KB XLS) | CSV format (1KB CSV)

Responses from previous years