EIR Request 2145

Subject: -Cide Use

Status: Complete

Date received: April 2025

Question Asked:

I would like to request the following:

1. A list of all -cides used by the Service. This is inclusive of, but not limited to: any and all avicides, biocides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, and rodenticides.

2. The annual cost and volume of purchase of each of these -cides, broken down by -cide, from January 2014 to December 2024. Please list this broken down by:

   1. -Cide

   2. Product Name

   3. Volume Purchased

   4. Price Paid

   5. Purchase Date

3. A list of each of these -cides’ use, by volume. Through this I am trying to ascertain whether the purchased volume is matched by the used volume, so if there is a record of expired or unused -cides too, that would be ideal. Please add this also on an annual basis over the same time period. Please list volume in either litres or kilograms, whichever is more appropriate.

4. Only if available and easily accessible, the location and purpose of each specific -cide’s use. For the former, this may be classified by: location grouping, address, coordinate, or otherwise.

If any of the individual pieces of information listed above are not available but others are, like cost and volume, then please signal this while responding with the other available information. Additionally, if records are only available for a time period less than that specified above, please provide these instead of rejecting the request as a whole.

Our Response:

Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service do not purchase any of these items. Pest controls and any -cides used in grounds maintenance are provided by those companies and any usage of these items would be via the contracted service.

Sorry on this occasion we are unable to assist.

Outcome: Information Not Held

FOI responded to within timescales: YES

Further action: NO