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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339 disclosures

  1. FOIA request regarding Council involvement with private sector housing

    I would like to make the following request under FOIA: All questions apply to calendar years of 2023, 2024 and 2025: 1. How many households in private rented properties have approached the council to report disrepair in their homes? 2. How many inspections have been completed in private rented properties by the council? 3. How many enforcement/improvement notices have been served by the council because of these inspections? 4. Were any demolition orders made by the council subsequently because of these investigations? 5. Does the council have any further comments to make regarding these figures?

    Published: 5 December 2025

  2. Freedom of Information request - Waste Partnership Details

    Please may you provide the details of whom you contract to collect waste. This includes, but is not limited to, household waste (recycling, general waste, etc...) and commercial waste collected from businesses) - Please provide the commercial partners you currently use, with their registered addresses. - Please provide the commercial partners you have historically used, with their registered addresses. This data should begin in 2021 and finalise at the most recent period. - Please provide the commercial partners who currently operate the recycling centres across the borough - again, with their registered addresses. - Please inform me of any changes to partners in any part of the waste process in the previous year.

    Published: 5 December 2025

  3. anti-poverty strategy

    I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Oxford City Council: 1. Does your council have a written anti-poverty strategy (this may also be referred to as a 'poverty strategy')? This may be an all-age strategy, or one focussing on a specific group of the population, such as a child poverty strategy. If so, please provide a link to the strategy if it is available publicly, or a copy via email. 2. If your council does not have an anti-poverty strategy in place, does it plan to develop one within the next 12 months? If so, please provide a link to any public facing document detailing this commitment. 3. Has your council voluntarily adopted the socio-economic duty? Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.

    Published: 4 December 2025

  4. BBC News: FOI - Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs)

    I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding the issuing of Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) within your local authority area. Please could you provide the following information: 1. Does your council employ a private contractor or external company to issue environmental FPNs? If yes, please provide the name(s) of the contractor(s) and the date when the contract commenced. 2. Please provide the total number of environmental Fixed Penalty Notices (e.g. for littering, fly tipping, dog fouling) issued by your council for each of the following financial years: 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 1. Please state the total income received by the council from environmental FPNs in each of the following years: 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25

    Published: 4 December 2025

  5. Freedom of Information request - Cost of Translation Services

    Dear Oxford City Council, 1. From 01 January 2020 to 31 December 2024 (or the most recent data you hold), please provide both the monthly and annual cost to the Council for written translation services. For each period please provide details of the languages that were translated.

    Published: 24 November 2025

  6. FOI: Hotel accommodation

    I would like to ask for information about the use of hotel accommodation by your local authority for individuals you have a statutory or other duty to accommodate. Please do not include the use of hotels for department business or staff in any capacity, for example work travel or conferences etc. Please provide, broken down by month between January 2019 (or as far back as you can go up to that point) and the latest available month: * The number of individuals * The number of hotel sites used (for example, individual hotels that are part of a chain, independent hotels, B&Bs etc) * Total amount spent * Please also provide a broad description of the different groups of people accommodated in hotels and the reasons for using hotels If the data is only available as households, please provide this and state clearly that this is what has been provided. If the data is not available by individual month, please provide it by financial year (1 April to 31 March) starting from 2019-20.

    Published: 24 November 2025

  7. Scrap Metal Dealer Licensing

    I would like to make a Freedom of Information (FOI) request for the following data: * How many scrap metal dealer sites currently have a site licence in your area/council/authority? * How many scrap metal collectors (mobile) currently have a site licence in your area/council/authority? * When did you last share these data with the Environment Agency to enable them to add them to the Register? In addition, under the same FOI, I would be grateful if you could tell me: * How much were your licences (site and collector each) in 2025? * How much do you intend to charge (respectively) in 2026? * How many visits to scrap metal sites have your officers undertaken in 2025? Many thanks in advance for help with this matter.

    Published: 21 November 2025

  8. FOI - Littering Enforcement, Fly-tipping and Litter Bin Statistics

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information: Littering Fines 1. Do you issue fines for littering? (YES/NO) 2. If so, at what level do you levy fines? Enforcement & Statistics 3. Do you use an in-house team or a private enforcement company to issue fines for littering? 4. How many Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) for littering did you issue in 2024/2025 (to date)? 5. How many Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) for car parking did you issue in 2024/2025 (to date)? Litter Bins 6. How many litter bins do you have in your council area now? 7. How many litter bins did you have 10 years ago (2014/2015)? 8. Have you removed any litter bins in the past 10 years, and if so, how many? Litter Clearance Costs 9. What was your annual spending on litter clearance in 2024/2025 compared to 2014/2015? Fly-tipping 10. How many people did you catch fly-tipping in 2024? 11. How many FPNs did you issue for fly-tipping in 2024? 12. How many of the FPNs issued for fly-tipping were paid? 13. How many people did you prosecute for fly-tipping in court in 2024? 14. How many of the court prosecutions resulted in a custodial sentence for fly-tipping?

    Published: 19 November 2025

  9. FOI request - households in temporary accommodation in

    I would like to make a request for data under the Freedom of Information Act. For each year from 2020 to 2025 for the quarter ending 31 March, could you please provide: * The total number of households from your local authority sent to another council as an Out of Area Temporary Accommodation Placement * The local authorities where these placements were sent * The number of households sent to each local authority * The number of households with children sent to each local authority

    Published: 22 September 2025

  10. Homeless/Rough sleeping

    Please disclose the number of rough sleepers recorded by the council for the past six head counts. Please disclose the date for each head count/inspection. Additionally, please disclose how many requests for temporary accommodation the council has received for each of the past financial years (April to March) - for clarity that would be 2024/25, 23/24, 22/23.

    Published: 18 September 2025