Pest Control operations and costs: FOI release
- Published
- 18 February 2025
- Directorate
- Corporate Transformation Directorate
- Topic
- Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202500447626
- Date received
- 13 January 2025
- Date responded
- 7 February 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
1. Details of pest control operations conducted on main HQ site, including date, in the past 12 months.
2. Costs of pest control operations, broken down by month, in that period.
Response
1. Details of pest control operations conducted on main HQ site, including date, in the past 12 months.
Pest control operations at St Andrews House include routine maintenance programme visits and ad hoc reactive visits . The table below contains details of all pest control operations conducted at St Andrews House in the last 12 months.
Service Date |
Visit Type |
Visit Description |
Cost |
20/12/2024 |
Reactive works |
Rodent Program |
Nil |
13/12/2024 |
Routine |
Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader, Intelligent Rodent Monitoring |
£354.48 |
18/11/2024 |
Routine |
Insect Light Trap Service |
£560.00 |
18/11/2024 |
Routine |
Intelligent Rodent Monitoring, Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader |
£354.48 |
21/10/2024 |
Reactive works |
Rodent Program |
£83.33 |
03/10/2024 |
Routine |
Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader, IRM Internal Maintenance, IRM External Maintenance, Intelligent Rodent Monitoring |
£354.48 |
13/09/2024 |
Routine |
Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader, Intelligent Rodent Monitoring |
£354.48 |
22/08/2024 |
ESR |
Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader |
Nil |
14/08/2024 |
Routine |
Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader, Intelligent Rodent Monitoring |
£354.48 |
10/07/2024 |
Routine |
Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader, Intelligent Rodent Monitoring |
£354.48 |
28/06/2024 |
Routine |
Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader, Intelligent Rodent Monitoring |
£354.48 |
14/05/2024 |
Routine |
Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader, Intelligent Rodent Monitoring |
£354.48 |
12/04/2024 |
Reactive works |
Rodent Program |
Nil |
09/04/2024 |
Routine |
IRM External Maintenance, Intelligent Rodent Monitoring, Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader |
£354.48 |
25/03/2024 |
Reactive works |
Job - Pest Elimination |
Nil |
01/03/2024 |
Reactive works |
Job - Pest Elimination |
£83.33 |
01/03/2024 |
Routine |
Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader, Intelligent Rodent Monitoring |
£354.48 |
22/02/2024 |
Reactive works |
Job - Pest Elimination |
£83.33 |
20/02/2024 |
Reactive works |
Job - Pest Elimination |
£83.33 |
14/02/2024 |
Reactive works |
Rodent Program |
£83.33 |
08/02/2024 |
Routine |
Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader, Intelligent Rodent Monitoring |
£354.48 |
04/01/2024 |
Routine |
Intelligent Rodent Monitoring, IRM External Maintenance, Rodent/C'roach/OccInvader |
£354.48 |
2. Costs of pest control operations, broken down by month, in that period.
The below table provides details of pest control spend per month in the last 12 months.
Date |
Cost |
January 2024 |
£354.48 |
February 2024 |
£604.47 |
March 2024 |
£437.81 |
April 2024 |
£354.48 |
May 2024 |
£354.48 |
June 2024 |
£354.48 |
July 2024 |
£354.48 |
August 2024 |
£354.48 |
September 2024 |
£354.48 |
October 2024 |
£437.81 |
November 2024 |
£914.48 |
December 2024 |
£354.48 |
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