Disclosure Log

Question

1.) How many incidents requiring pest control in schools (including special schools) and nurseries have been reported by your council over the last three years?

Please provide the information broken down for the last three financial years (2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16).

2. Please provide the type of problem and/or type of pest reported for each case reported. For example:

- Rat spotted in store cupboard

- Mice droppings

- Ant infestation

3. Please break down by i)primary schools ii) secondary schools iii) nurseries.

If you can only provide information for schools, please do not delay my request to inform me, but exclude nurseries from my request.

4. Providing you hold this information: How much money has school pest control cost over the last three financial years? Please break down by year.

Answer

1. 2013-14 = 54

2014-15 = 43

2015-16 = 48

2. Year Nurseries Primary Schools Secondary Schools

2013-14 Ants = 1 Ants = 21 Ants = 3

Mice = 0 Mice = 3 Mice = 0

Rats = 0 Rats = 6 Rats = 4

Flies = 0 Flies = 0 Flies = 2

Spiders = 1 Spiders = 2 Spiders = 0

Bees = 1 Fleas = 1 Fleas = 0

Wasps = 3 Wasps = 6 Wasps = 0

2014-15 Ants = 1 Ants = 17 Ants = 0

Mice = 1 Mice = 4 Mice = 1

Rats = 1 Rats = 9 Rats = 2

Fleas = 1 Beetles = 0 Beetles = 1

Bees = 0 Bees = 1 Bees = 0

Wasps = 0 Wasps = 4 Wasps = 0

2015-16 Ants = Ants = 15 Ants = 0

Mice = 2 Mice = 1 Mice = 1

Rats = 3 Rats = 10 Rats = 1

Wasps = 1 Wasps = 12 Wasps = 1

3. Year Nursery Primary School Secondary School

2013-14 6 39 9

2014-15 4 35 4

2015-16 6 39 3

4. Unknown, the Council does not record this information.