Blue Badges Approvals, Renewals and Declines

Please can you provide the following information relating to Blue Badges (Blue Badge parking permits issued under section 21, Disabled Persons Act) for your authority.

1. Number of new Blue Badges applications approved for the financial years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022.

Devon County Council (DCC) does not hold this information as we do not have the reporting facility to calculate the number of applications which have been approved. In the interests of providing advice and assistance, we can confirm the number of badges issued; DCC would only issue a badge where the application has been ‘approved’.

Number of new Blue Badges issued for the financial years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022:

2020/2021 4,515
2021/2022 9,167

2. Number of Blue Badge renewals approved for the financial years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022.

As above, DCC does not hold this information as we do not have the reporting facility to calculate the number of renewals which have been approved. In the interests of providing advice and assistance, we can confirm the number of renewals issued;

2020/2021 6,472
2021/2022 8,937

3. Number of Blue Badge applications declined for the financial years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022.

2020/2021 452
2021/2022 437

4. Please provide the below, for any roles that manage, or administers Blue Badges (Blue Badge parking permits issued under section 21, Disabled Persons Act) for your authority.
a. job descriptions
b. grade 
c. salary range
d. overall structure and number of posts for this team.

Please see this Devon County Council webpage for the job descriptions for the two distinct Blue Badge administrative roles. The Operational Manager role for this service comes under the section “Participate in project and programme work as and when required” which is included in the CSC Team Manager job description.

Please see this response to a previous Freedom of Information request for the grade, salary ranges, structure and number of posts for this team.