• A361 North Devon Link Road Improvement

    Please provide: 1. The overall and detailed agreement that Devon County Council and Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd reached regarding the amendments to the de-scope of the original works package on the A361 NDLR Improvement Scheme. This information is exempt from … Continue reading

  • Deficit in Medium Term Financial Strategy

    1. How much deficit/pressure/overspend have you identified in your Medium Term Financial Strategy IN (a) 2024-25 (b) 2025-26 and (c) 2026-27? Please do not provide me with a figure for 2023-24 or any year before that. 2. Please provide (a) … Continue reading

  • Audit Committee Annual and External Reviews

    CIPFA Guidance on Local Authority Audit Committees states that ‘Recommended practice is for audit committees to review and assess themselves annually or to seek an external review.’ We realise that the committee with audit related responsibilities are not always called … Continue reading

  • Local Authority Artwork

    1) How many artworks have been purchased by the local authority in 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23? None 2) How many artworks are in the possession of the local authority? 48 3) What is the estimated value of the artworks? Market … Continue reading

  • Council Account Bank Access

    1. What online access do Councillors, the elected chairman and the leader of the Council have to the Councils bank accounts? None. 2. What regulation or legislation prevents them accessing the Councils bank accounts? We do not hold this information. … Continue reading

  • School Supply Staff Spend

    In the tax years 2020/21 to 2022/23, what was the annual supply spend for each school? Please breakdown per agency. Please refer to this school spends workbook which detail schools where money was spent on supply staff in each financial … Continue reading

  • Financial investments

    1. Does the council have any financial investments in stocks, shares or other financial instruments? 2. If so, does the council have any documentation which sets out its investments strategy? If so, please disclose the same. 3. If the council … Continue reading

  • Tavistock Bus Services

    1. How much money has been received via S106 Agreements for the Tavistock 89 bus service? £392,766.66 2. Please provide details of payments made from the S106 moneys to the following providers in respect of the original 89 bus service: … Continue reading

  • School Funding

    1. Please provide a description of ‘top-up’, ‘banding,’ ‘matrix,’ or ‘element’ arrangements that the Council use to guide its allocation of High Needs Block funding to mainstream schools, resource base/units in mainstream schools, and special schools. The Council follow the … Continue reading