FOI release

Software Applications Used by Council Departments

Case reference FOI2025/01381

Received 26 November 2025

Published 22 December 2025

Request

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

Response

Please see the response in attachment.

Documents

• FOI Standard Response - FOI2025_01381 (redacted).pdf (753.1 KB)

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