Feedback Request.
Hello,
Is it possible to answer the following questions please?
- How many planning officers do you currently employ?
- How many planning officers did you employ in January 2011?
- What is your planning departments current budget?

1. How many planning officers do you currently employ?
We currently have 21 planning officers who deal with planning application.

2. How many planning officers did you employ in January 2011?
We do not have figures from 2011.

Can you please advise me;

1. Does the council have a regular resident’s newsletter?
Yes.

2. What is the publication called?
Wokingham Borough News.

1. Please can I request, list of empty properties in Wokingham Borough Council.
The Council Tax team have considered this request and after weighing up the public interest test at this time they are applying exemption Section 31(1)(a) of FOI Act.

For each question, I would like data for each of the following time periods:
April 2020 – March 2021
April 2019 – March 2020
April 2018 – March 2019
April 2015 – March 2016
April 2013 – March 2014

1. Please provide the total number of school-aged children recorded as missing from education in the academic year due to end in July. Please also provide figures for the previous three academic years (2017/18, 18/19 and 19/20).

Please note, these requests do not relate to campaigns, testing or vaccination centres which have been paid for directly by the UK Government. Rather, initiatives run by and paid for by the local authority or money which has been given to the local authority to support its own initiatives.

1. Please can you send over the full and up to date list of businesses that have become liable for business rates from the 1st November 2020 to the 11th Feb 2021.

1. I am investigating individuals who live in squalor.
I am looking for any reports, research or policy documents produced by your council into individuals living in squalid conditions or classed as having Diogenes Syndrome or extreme self-neglect.
Adult Social Care:

Black History Month (BHM); In January 2021 "Get Reading news" reported a black Wokingham resident complaining at Asians being shown and included in Wokingham Borough Council's BHM as by definition BME is meant for blacks not BME as whole.

1. What payments, if any, you made to Stonewall (officially Stonewall Equality Limited) in the financial year 2019/20.
Wokingham Borough Council did not make any payments to Stonewall in financial years 2019/20 and 2020/21.