Request
For each calendar year from 2020 to 2024 and for 2025 to date (please state the end date used at the time of your search), please provide:
1. The total recorded spend (including purchases and any hire/rental) on artificial or plastic plants/flowers/greenery, including “silk”/replica/preserved/artificial moss/hedging/green walls.
2. The total recorded spend (including purchases and any hire/rental) incurred in replacing existing artificial/replica décor already in situ (like-for-like refresh/renewal), e.g. artificial/plastic/silk plants, flowers, hedging, green walls, preserved/artificial moss.
3. Any recorded spend on maintenance/cleaning (e.g. dusting, washing, UV treatment) and disposal of artificial/plastic plants/green walls, with totals per year.
If you do not hold discrete categories for the above, please run a keyword search across purchase-ledger and procurement-card description fields and relevant works/order systems using terms such as (neither exhaustive nor exclusive): “artificial plant”, “plastic plant”, “artificial flower”, “silk flower”, “replica/faux/fake”, “preserved moss”, “boxwood (artificial)”, “green wall (artificial)”, “UV-stabilis”, “hedge (artificial)” and, for replacements, pair with “replace”, “refresh”, “renewal”, “change-out”, “like-for-like”.
Please provide totals per year and a simple line-level extract:
– Date
– Description (if applicable)
– Department/cost centre or site/location
– Amount in GBP
Under s11 FOIA, please supply data in CSV or Excel.
If information is withheld, please cite the specific exemption and, where applicable, the public-interest test. If the request would exceed the appropriate cost limit, please provide items (1)–(3) as annual totals (and any available breakdowns for the most recent full year) and advise what narrower scope would be disclosable under s16.
Response
Good afternoon,
Further to our email acknowledging your environmental information request (reference 2025-259), our response is as follows.
We deny we have the information you requested.
You requested: For each calendar year from 2020 to 2024 and for 2025 to date:
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The total recorded spend on artificial or plastic plants/flowers/greenery.
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The total recorded spend incurred in replacing existing artificial/replica décor already in situ.
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Any recorded spend on maintenance/cleaning and disposal of artificial/plastic plants/green walls.
Our response: North London Waste Authority (NLWA) does not hold the information requested as the Authority does not purchase, hire, or maintain artificial or plastic plants, flowers, or greenery. There is no recorded expenditure for these items as they are not used across our office. For further verification of Authority expenditure, you may view our published supplier payments (for spend over £500) on our transparency portal here: Transparency and Supplier Payments | NLWA
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you may ask for an internal review, which should be submitted within two months of when you received our response to either informationrequests@nlwa.gov.uk or enquiry form quoting the above reference.
If you are not content with the outcome of the review, you may complain to the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, or via their online portal. The Information Commissioner will not usually accept complaints before a review has been completed.
Kind regards,
North London Waste Authority
