FOI Request 2233

Subject: Pest Control Services

Status: Complete

Date received: October 2025


Question Asked:

Please provide the following information for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2025, broken down by financial year:

  1. Total expenditure by the Service on pest control services, including both -n-house provision and external/contracted services.

  2. If any services are contracted out, please provide the supplier name(s) and the contract value(s).

  3. The number of call-outs/treatments by species category (e.g. rats, mice, pigeons, gulls, foxes, grey squirrels, wasps, bedbugs, cockroaches - please use your own categories if recorded differently).

  4. For any lethal control commissioned or carried out by the Service, the number of animals killed by species and, where recorded, the method used (e.g. trapping, poisoning, shooting).

  5. A copy of any policy, guidance, or standard operating procedure relating to the Service’s pest control service or contractors.


Our Response:

Please see our response below to your Freedom of Information Request.

1. Total expenditure by the Service on pest control services, including both -n-house provision and external/contracted services.

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

2024-25

6,985.00

207.25

2,275.00

4,084.25

218.50

975.00

9,750.14

268.00

472.50

711.36

111.50

405.00





1,322.24

127.49

2,550.67

220.19

9,467.26

5,277.75

10,490.64

2,677.59

2,770.86


2. If any services are contracted out, please provide the supplier name(s) and the contract value(s)

Vergo

Contego 2023 to date

Lot 2 - Proactive & Reactive Pest Control Services

2025-2026 £1,776.63

2026-2027 £1,829.93

Contego Environmental Solutions and details of this contract are already publicly available on the following public contract database, you can view by clicking the following link

Sell2

You can search contracts by name and filter in order to see contracts for Cheshire Fire Authority only, then select a contract to view the details.


3. The number of call-outs/treatments by species category (e.g. rats, mice, pigeons, gulls, foxes, grey squirrels, wasps, bedbugs, cockroaches - please use your own categories if recorded differently)

2020-2023:

unavailable


2023 to date:

Mice - 7

Rats - 10

Wasps - 9

Woodlice - 1

Flies - 4

Ants - 9

Birds - 5

Bugs - 2


Total per year:

2023 - 2

2024 - 25

2025 - 20


4. For any lethal control commissioned or carried out by the Service, the number of animals killed by species and, where recorded, the method used (e.g. trapping, poisoning, shooting).

2020-2023:

Unavailable


2023-2025:

None


5. A copy of any policy, guidance, or standard operating procedure relating to the Service’s pest control service or contractors.

None


Outcome: Information Provided

FOI responded to within timescales: YES

Further action: NO

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Last updated: Monday, 26 January 2026


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