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Pest Control Callouts Costs April 2020 to March 2025

Reference: 25-26299

Date response sent: 09/10/2025

Details of enquiry

Please provide the following information for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2025, broken down by financial year:

  1. Total expenditure by the Trust on pest control services, including both in-house provision and external/contracted services.
  2. If any services are contracted out, please provide the supplier name(s) and the contract value(s).
  3. The number of call-outs/treatments by species category (e.g. rats, mice, pigeons, gulls, foxes, grey squirrels, wasps, bedbugs, cockroaches—please use your own categories if recorded differently).
  4. For any lethal control commissioned or carried out by the Trust, the number of animals killed by species and, where recorded, the method used (e.g. trapping, poisoning, shooting).
  5. A copy of any policy, guidance, or standard operating procedure relating to the Trust’s pest control service or contractors.

Response sent

  1. Total expenditure by the Trust on pest control services, including both in-house provision and external/contracted services.
Year

 

 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Spend

 

 £5,007.71

*

 £16,231.56 £15,281.15 £17,644.23 £10,134.41 £15,223.73
Specific mice Treatments administered 7 9 5 3 3 1

* Note:  2020 spend is pro rata cost for contract period March-Dec 2020.

2. If any services are contracted out, please provide the supplier name(s) and the contract value(s).

Rentokil Initial UK Ltd has been used for the whole period –– see spend shown in our response to Question 1 above.

3. The number of call-outs/treatments by species category (e.g. rats, mice, pigeons, gulls, foxes, grey squirrels, wasps, bedbugs, cockroaches—please use your own categories if recorded differently).

Our spend includes monthly site visits and the specific treatments were for mice only:  See above table for number of treatments per year.

4. For any lethal control commissioned or carried out by the Trust, the number of animals killed by species and, where recorded, the method used (e.g. trapping, poisoning, shooting).

None

5. A copy of any policy, guidance, or standard operating procedure relating to the Trust’s pest control service or contractors.

There are no standard operating procedures for the Trust as  any issues are discussed following any planned or unplanned visits.

 

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