Environmental Staff allocation and number of businesses
Request received 13 May 2026
1. Staffing:
1.1: Number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff (including, if possible, agency or contractor staff working in equivalent roles) in your environmental health dept, unit or team in 2019/20 and 2025/26.
1.2. Of the total FTE in your environmental health team, please indicate, for both 2019/20 and 2025/26, the approximate FTE allocated to the following functions:
• Food hygiene/food standards inspections and enforcement
• Pest control
• Infectious disease control (including outbreak investigation, liaison with health protection bodies, etc.)
Note: I appreciate that some staff work across multiple areas. Where possible please apportion their FTE by time spent (e.g. a 1.0 FTE officer spending half their time on food safety and half on housing should be counted as 0.5 in each category). If exact data is not held, please provide the best available estimate used for internal planning, monitoring or statutory reporting - rather than create a new data set.
2. Businesses:
2.1: Number of food businesses (including restaurants and takeaways) registered in the local authority in 2019/20 and 2025/26.
2.2: Number of food businesses (including restaurants and takeaways) inspected in 2019/20 and 2025/26.
2.3: Number of registered food businesses that are eligible for inspection, but which have never been inspected.
2.4: Number of food businesses (including restaurants and takeaways) that failed inspections in 2019/20 and 2025/26.
2.5: Number of enforcement visits to food businesses in the local authority in 2019/20 and 2025/26.
2.6: Number of incidents involving pests (vermin, insects etc) at food businesses in 2019/20 and 2025/26.
2.7: Number of closures of food businesses in 2019/20 and 2025/26 due to enforcement action through a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Notice.
2.8: Number of prosecutions of food businesses in 2019/20 and 2025/26.
Clarification requested 14 May 2026
With reference to your FOI request:
Can you please advise -
What date do you want us to work to – is that the position on 1st April 2019 or 31st March 2020.
2. Businesses:
2.1: Number of food businesses (including restaurants and takeaways) registered in the local authority in 2019/20 and 2025/26. – Just to be clear- are you wanting the TOTAL number of food business or are you wanting the number of REGISTRATIONS received during the year
2.4: Number of food businesses (including restaurants and takeaways) that failed inspections in 2019/20 and 2025/26. – What do you class as a failure of an inspection?
2.5: Number of enforcement visits to food businesses in the local authority in 2019/20 and 2025/26. – What do you mean by Enforcement Visit. Every inspection is an enforcement visit. Further information on this is required.
Once we receive your clarification we can proceed with your request. If we do not hear from you within 3 months of the date of this email, we will consider your request closed.