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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information.  I am requesting a breakdown of the number of reported incidences to your local authority of pothole damage to (1) LCVs and vans between 3,000 and 3,500kg and (2) cars that required repairs in 2024

1. The total number of employees of your Council currently. Please provide a breakdown of headcount by department if possible.

2. The total number of employees of your Council 12 months ago. Please provide a breakdown of headcount by department if possible.

1. How much your Council spent on advertising in the financial year 2024/25.

2. How much your Council spent on advertising in the financial year 2023/24.

1. How many staff (as measured by full-time equivalents) do you employ to work on communications? Please include all internal and external communications including work on your website, media queries and social media.

Please could you send me the following information.

1. How many council-run padel courts are in your local authority area?
Zero.

2. For each of these courts, the year they opened.
Not applicable.

Please can you provide the following:

1. Please provide data regarding the number of challenges to books received by your library/libraries for each calendar year between 2018 and 2024, plus so far in 2025.

1. How much money did the council spend on SEND tribunal appeals during each of the following calendar years: 2022, 2023, 2024. Depending on what information the council records, this should preferably include tribunal appeals that did not ultimately reach a formal tribunal hearing

1. Please provide the highest annual amount paid in the 2024/25 financial year for an individual child's placement in either children’s homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools? Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children’s home.