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01st July 2022
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 131
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
What is your policy for weed control in the hospital’s grounds?
Do you use herbicides containing glyphosate e.g. Roundup, Weedol etc. If yes, what do you use? What areas have been sprayed with herbicides containing glyphosate?
What is your policy on the use of glyphosate?
What precautions were taken ahead of its use?
For the calendar years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, please can you tell me:
The volume of these herbicides you have you used and cost.
We don’t use total herbicides as a general rule now and we haven’t since around 2016. A lot of our customers, mainly local authorities requested we don’t use it, so it was stopped across the board. We did spray the knotweed at Holly House in 2021 and spring 2022 but that was direct to the stems, this would have been a 1 off application with minimal amount.
Idverde do spray hard standings occasionally but they have strong environmental statements.
Glyphosate is controversial but remains legal ref CRD division of HSE. until the end of 2025 in UK.
There isn’t a policy as such, but a requirement to “hand weed”. Should you have any queries in relation to our response in this letter, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to: –
– Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth
GLOUCESTER GL3 4AW
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Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
On behalf of Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
FOI Request
This is a request under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. I would like to request the following information:
What is your policy for weed control in the hospital's grounds?
Do you use herbicides containing glyphosate eg Roundup, Weedol etc If yes, what do you use What areas have been sprayed with herbicides containing glyphosate?
What is your policy on the use of glyphosate?
What precautions were taken ahead of its use?
For the calendar years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, please can you tell me:
The volume of these herbicides you have you used The cost
I would like to receive the information electronically - preferably in an Excel format. If you feel that a substantive response to this request is not possible within a reasonable time frame, or the request is too broad or too vague, I would be grateful if you could contact me and provide assistance as to how I could refine the request.
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