Freedom of information (FOI) releases from Oxford City Council

This is a disclosure log of Oxford City Council's responses to freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) requests that might be of wider public interest.

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350 disclosures

  1. Damp and mould

    Please treat this as a formal request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to request the following information: 1. The total number of reports received by the council of damp, mould and condensation issues in council-owned homes since 1 January 2021. If you hold yearly data, please provide a breakdown by calendar year 2. The total number of council-owned homes managed by the council (or, if exact current data is not available, the most recent figure)

    Published: 22 December 2025

  2. Car Parking Revenue

    Can I please have the car parking revenue broken down by month for the years 2023 and 2024?I want to understand the seasonal variation in car trips into Oxford as I have picked up a distinct pattern where many more cars coming into Oxford are picked up by sensors on St Clements in November than other months and I want to see if that increase translates into higher car parking revenues in November.

    Published: 22 December 2025

  3. HMO Licensing, Complaints and Enforcement Data (2018–2024)

    I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 relating to Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in your local authority area. Please provide the following data, if held, for each calendar year from 2018 to 2024 inclusive (or for as many of those years as you hold data). If a year-by-year breakdown cannot be produced within the statutory time or cost limits, please instead provide the total figure for the entire period (2018–2024). 1) The number of HMO licence applications received. 2) The number of HMO licence applications refused. 3) The number of HMO licences revoked or suspended. 4) The number of complaints received relating to HMOs. 5) The number of inspections of HMOs carried out. 6) The number of enforcement or improvement notices issued, or prosecutions brought, relating to HMOs. 7) (If recorded) The number of unlicensed or illegal HMOs identified.

    Published: 22 December 2025

  4. Software Applications Used by Council Departments

    I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding the software applications used across departments at your authority. Please provide the following details for each department: 1. Name of each software application currently in use 2. Whether the application is installed locally on devices, hosted on a Virtual Desktop, or virtual app basis (Citrix or Azure VDI, or similar) or hosted by the developer (cloud-based/SaaS) 3. Current version number of each application 4. Number of licences held for each application 5. Contract type – whether the contract is rolling or fixed-term 6. Annual cost of each application The departments I am referring to include (but are not limited to) o Planning and Building Control o Council Tax o Bins, Rubbish and Recycling o Housing o Parking, Streets and Transport Benefits and Grants o Business Support o Environmental Health o Anti-social Behaviour and Crime o Health, Sport and Fitness o Elections and Councillors o Climate Change Strategy o Events and Community Engagement o Job Vacancies and HR o Apprenticeships and People Strategy o Finance and Audit o Assets and Business Development o Transformation and Communities o Culture, Health, Town Centre and Rural Services o Streetscene Services o ICT Shared Services o Revenues and Benefits Partnership If any of this information is already publicly available, I would appreciate it if you could direct me to the relevant resources

    Published: 22 December 2025

  5. Staff members based outside of the UK

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would be grateful if you could provide the following information: 1. Whether the council currently employs, or has employed in the past 10 years, any staff members who are based outside of the UK as their normal place of work. 2. If so, how many staff this applies to, and in which countries they are based. 3. Whether the council has registered such staff members with the appropriate social security authorities in their country of residence. I would prefer to receive the response by email.

    Published: 19 December 2025

  6. Freedom of Information Request

    I am writing to you to submit a Freedom of Information (FOI) request regarding your IT service management (ITSM) software. Please confirm receipt of this request. You may provide the information in whichever way best suits your internal process, or can use the online form if preferred. 1. Total number of employees 2. Total number of IT service desk agents 3. Existing service desk / ITSM software used 4. Deployment model (Cloud-based or on-premise) 5. Number of software licenses 6. Contract renewal date 7. Annual cost of contract 8. Total cost of contract 9. Contract review date 10. Main decision maker/contact for service desk software

    Published: 19 December 2025

  7. Temporary Accommodation

      I am submitting a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to gather information regarding the number of individuals and families classified as homeless and placed in “temporary accommodation” throughout the year. 1.  Monthly Homelessness Data in Temporary Accommodation  2. Monthly Counts of Individuals and Households in Temporary Accommodation:   For each month in the past five years (November 2021- November 2025), please provide the total number of individuals and households recorded as homeless and residing in “temporary accommodation.”   Include a breakdown of the types of accommodation provided (e.g., hotels, B&Bs, hostels, caravans, shelters).   Please categorise those in temporary accommodation as follows:   -Single parents with children, identifying mothers and fathers separately if possible.   -Individuals without children.   -Family units, classified by family size (e.g., mother, father, and one child; mother, father, and two children, etc.).  

    Published: 18 December 2025

  8. Recycling collected, rejected and processed data

    As a freedom of information request, please provide, for each financial year from 2018-19 to the most recent available at the point of production, the following: 1) a - tonnes of household recycling collected b - tonnes of collected household recycling rejected c) - tonnes of collected household recycling rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill) 2) a - tonnes of non-household recycling collected b - tonnes of non-household recycling rejected c) - tonnes of non-household material rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill) 3) a - tonnes of household recycling taken to recycling centres by the public b - tonnes of household recycling taken to recycling centres by the public that is rejected c - tonnes of household material taken to recycling centres by the public that is rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill) 4) a - tonnage or percentage of material recycled within the UK b - tonnage or percentage of material exported overseas split by how it will be processed (such as recycled or incinerated) c - if available, please provide the tonnage or percentage of material exported overseas split by how it will be processed and destination country. If tonnes are not available, please provide percentages or other available measure. If the whole period requested is not available, please instead provide data from the earliest point available till the most recent at the point of production. If possible, please provide this data as a csv file.

    Published: 16 December 2025

  9. Dog-breeding licensing and enforcement (2022–2024)

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information regarding your council’s regulation of dog-breeding establishments under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018 or the equivalent legislation in Wales (the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (Wales) Regulations 2021). Please supply figures for each of the past three calendar years (2022, 2023 and 2024). If your records are held by financial year rather than calendar year, please provide data for 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 instead. If any part of this request would exceed the Section 12 cost limit (£450 for local authorities, calculated at £25 per hour), please process as much of it as possible within that limit, and advise which parts could be refined to remain compliant. Please provide the following: (1) Number of dog-breeding licences currently issued by your authority. (2) Number of new licence applications received and number refused each year. (3) Total income received from dog-breeding licence fees each year. (4) Total expenditure on administering and enforcing these licences each year (including officer time, inspections and related costs). (5) Number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) officers responsible for animal-licensing inspection and enforcement in each year. (6) Number of inspections carried out at licensed breeding premises each year. (7) Number of inspections carried out at unlicensed or suspected breeding premises each year. (8) Number of dog-breeding licences revoked, suspended, or not renewed each year. (9) If held, the number of formal investigations or enforcement actions relating to breaches of dog-breeding licence conditions or unlicensed breeding, broken down (where recorded) by:  a. Investigations initiated  b. Formal warnings / improvement notices issued  c. Fixed-penalty notices issued  d. Cautions administered  e. Prosecutions commenced  f. Prosecutions resulting in conviction (10) Does the council maintain a public register of licensed dog breeders?  10a. If yes, please provide the URL or explain how the public may access it.  10b. If no, please confirm whether an internal register exists. Please provide the data in spreadsheet format (Excel or CSV), where possible. Where exact figures are not held, please provide your best available estimate or state “information not held.” If data are stored across systems, you may provide annual totals rather than extract individual records. This request forms part of a UK-wide transparency project analysing how local authorities enforce dog-breeding regulations. Results will be published to highlight good practice and support councils in securing resources for animal-welfare enforcement. Thank you for your assistance.

    Published: 16 December 2025

  10. The Provision of Workwear and PPE

    I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the contract below. The details we require are: What are the contractual performance KPI's for this contract? Suppliers who applied for inclusion on each framework/contract and were successful & not successful at the PQQ & ITT stages Actual spend on this contract/framework (and any sub lots), from the start of the contract to the current date Start date & duration of framework/contract? Could you please provide a copy of the service/product specification given to all bidders for when this contract was last advertised? Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so, the duration of the extension? Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are being either extended or renewed? Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract? Thank you for your help.

    Published: 16 December 2025