FOI request (FOIR-640077862)

Planning Staff

Requested Tue 20 August 2024
Responded Mon 16 September 2024

1. How many members of staff are in your planning department if at full capacity?

2. On average, during the year from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024, what was the staff headcount of your planning department team? If not able to express as an average, perhaps you could confirm the headcount at a specific date or at year-end.

3. How many employees were directly employed by the authority during this period?

4. How many employees were employed through agencies during this period?

5. On average, during 2023/24, how many days were agency workers employed for to work in the planning department?

6. How much was spent on employing agency workers in the planning department between 1st April 2023 and 31st March 2024?

7. What was your average department headcount in the financial years (a) 2017/18 (b) 2019/20 and (c) 2021/23?

8. How many members of the planning department left their role between 1st April 2023 and 31st March 2024?

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Response

The Freedom of Information Act is based on recorded information held by a local authority. It is not a tool to ask questions.

Your request is mainly questions, which falls outside the remit of the Act.

This is the only recorded information held in relation to this request:

3. 326

6. Zero