1. Please provide a breakdown of how the additional income generated from the increase in planning application fees introduced on 6 December 2023 has been allocated or spent. Where possible, please specify the services or functions supported and the amount allocated to each.

1. How much money was spent by the local authority on external consultants?
a) 2020/21:
b) 2021/22:
c) 2022/23:
d) 2023/24:
e) 2024/25:
Please could you break the data down into a total amount and separated by year.

1.

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request the following information regarding your software contracts:

1. What’s the current number of empty properties and long term empty properties across the council, as of June 2? If a figure is not available for June 2, please provide the most up-to-date figure available and state the date for which that figure is accurate.

1. The names of the vape/e-cigarette flavours provided under the NHS Swap to Stop Scheme that the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities/DHSC make available to Local Authorities via the Crown Commercial Services Procurement Platform.

1. Within your council, please provide the documented tree-planting strategy for the whole of 2024?
See attached file - the Councils published Tree Strategy.