Transparency Information
Financial Information
The Parish Council is financed through a precept, an amount of money calculated as an estimate for the coming financial year and collected as part of your Council Tax. This money is used to improve facilities and services for local people. The Parish Council is also able to apply for other funding, such as grants and awards.
Hurst Green Parish Council actively encourage input from residents on what the community needs, so that we can budget for that activity.
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Financial Year 2023 / 2024
Documents within this section relate to the financial year above, and are classified as Class 2 documents “what we spend and how we spend it” in the Information Commissioner’s Office publication scheme for Parish Councils. The Freedom of Information Act 2000’s model publication scheme requires Parish Council’s to proactively publish information, it consists of seven…
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Financial Year 2022 / 2023
View all Class 2 documents relating to the Council’s expenditure and regulatory affairs – “what we spend and how we spend it”. Please note that some documents are only published once the Council’s financial year has ended.
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Financial Year 2021 / 2022
View all Class 2 documents relating to the Council’s expenditure and regulatory affairs – “what we spend and how we spend it”. Please note that some documents are only published once the Council’s financial year has ended.
Freedom of Information
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 gives a general right of access to all types of recorded information held by public authorities, sets out exemptions from that right, and places a number of obligations on public authorities.
Public authorities, including the the Parish Council:
- must make as much information available as possible through their Publication Schemes
- must respond to requests for information within 20 working days
The Parish Council has adopted the 2009 Model Publication Scheme issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office. This endorses our commitment to routinely publish and make available a broad amount of information about the council as part of our normal business activities. We aim to ensure that a significant amount of information is available without the need for a specific request, and therefore minimise inconvenience and cost to the public. Most of the information is available here on our website. In addition, where possible or practicable we make information available on the parish notice board located opposite the Village Hall in Station Road.
Further information about the Freedom of Information Act can be found on the Information Commissioner’s Office website.
Data protection
Hurst Green Parish Council is registered with the Information Commissioner as a data controller and a data processor.