Response A1345855

Response to request for information

Response date

5 November 2021

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please list/provide me with:

• The number of pieces of graffiti that have had to be removed in your local authority area in each of the last ten years?
• The total cost of removing graffiti in each of the last ten years?

Response

The number of pieces of graffiti that have had to be removed in your local authority area in each of the last ten years?

• 2020/21 - 34
• 2019/20 - 57
• 2018/19 - 97
• 2017/18 - 53
• 2016/17 - 56
• 2015/16 - 99
• 2014/15 - 46
• 2013/14 - 65
• 2012/13 - 114
• 2011/12 - 221

The total cost of removing graffiti in each of the last ten years?

• 2020/21 - £9,985
• 2019/20 - £9,720
• 2018/19 - £9,190
• 2017/18 - £9,042
• 2016/17 - £8,874
• 2015/16 - £8,874

We did not separate charges relating to Graffiti from the other grounds maintenance costs from 2011 until the prime contract with our contractor began, so we are not able to easily identify what charges would relate solely to Graffiti removal between 2011 and august 2014. Therefore we can only provide costs from our contractor from 2015 onwards.