Thank you for your email which has been received by the Council. 

If your request relates to official council held information it will be
handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or
Environmental Information Regulations 2005. We may need to contact you
for further information or clarification. If you do not hear from us,
please accept this email as acknowledgment of your request. You will
receive a final response within the next 20 working days.

If you are writing to find out what information the Council holds about
you, and wish to exercise your ‘Right to Access’ under data protection
legislation (General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act
2018) your request will be processed and responded to within one month of
receiving the request. 

If you have any queries regarding data protection, please do not hesitate
to contact us at  [1][email address] or on 01429 523087.

Following completion of a freedom of information request/ data protection
request, the information relating to the request and response will be
retained by the Council for three years.  For further information on how
the Council process your personal data in accordance with the Data
Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulations, please
visit [2]www.hartlepool.gov.uk/gdpr

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Legal
Division on 01429 523087 or email
[3][email address] .

[4]HBC-1022

══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════

Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

This document is strictly confidential and is intended only for the use by
the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure,
copying, distribution or other action taken in reliance of the information
contained in this email is strictly prohibited. Hartlepool Borough Council
will handle your personal information in accordance with the General Data
Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. To find out how
the Council collect, use, store and retain your personal data, please see
our privacy notice(s) at www.hartlepool.gov.uk/privacy-notices. Any views
expressed by the sender of this message are not necessarily those of
Hartlepool Borough Council. If you have received this transmission in
error, please use the reply function to tell us and then permanently
delete what you have received. This message has been scanned for malware
by Websense. [5]www.websense.com

References

Visible links
1. mailto:[email address]
2. http://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/gdpr
3. mailto:[email address]
4. file:///tmp/www.hartlepool.gov.uk
5. http://www.websense.com/

Dear Hannah

Thank you for your request dated 16^th January 2023.

Please find the information you require below.

1a. How many staff does the Council directly employ (excluding contractors
or subcontractors, and excluding teachers), that work directly for the
Council as opposed to a school, leisure centres or other venture?

Response - The Council employs 1977 individual people (excluding
contractors or subcontractors, and excluding teachers), on various
contracts and hours of employment.  This number is not full time
equivalents.  The council does not hold data on any other organisation.

1b. How many directly employed staff spend 3 or more days per week (0.6
Full Time Equivalent (FTE)) on implementing the Climate Action Plan or
other climate change projects? Please provide a list of all the roles.
Please exclude waste management staff unless they are specifically working
3 or more days per week on implementing the Climate Action Plan or other
climate change projects.

Response - Two in total.

One FTE Strategic Development and Sustainability Manager

One FTE ‘Net Zero Officer’.

If you have answered yes to have a biodiversity planning officer and/or a
retrofit staff member below, both these staff members can be included in
this question even if they are contracted.

Response – We do not employ a biodiversity planning officer at this time. 
This type of work may be done but no officer spends 0.6 (FTE) of their
time on such work.

This is likely to include all staff in your climate/sustainability team,
such as Climate Change Officers or similar. This may include full time
staff who spend 60% of their time on climate change projects and 40% of
their time on other work.

Response – We do not have a biodiversity team.

You might include other staff in other departments, such as a procurement
officer if they are spending 3 or more days per week (0.6 FTE) on writing
and implementing a sustainable procurement policy or a planner that is
working primarily on low carbon policies for new buildings.

Response – We do not have such a team.

2. Does the council have one or more staff member who works on home energy
efficiency retrofitting, such as retrofit officers or project managers
across the council area, for 3 or more days per week (0.6+ FTE)? This can
include both directly employed and contracted staff, provided they work 3
or more days per week (0.6 FTE). The work of this officer may include
working on any retrofit projects, including council buildings, council
homes or private rented or owned households.

Please list any roles that work in this area, including the full time
equivalent (FTE) if they work part time.

Response - One FTE Project Manager (Energy Efficiency)

Please include staff members that are shared with other councils, such as
between county and district councils, and note if they are shared across
other areas.

3. How many planning ecologists (ecologists within the planning
department) or equivalent working for 3 or more days per week (0.6+ FTE)
does the council employ to scrutinise planning reports for Biodiversity
Net Gain? This can include both directly employed and contracted staff,
provided they work 3 or more days per week (0.6 FTE).

Response – None.

We hope that this information deals with your request, however if you are
dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask
for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted to
[1][email address] within two months of the date of receipt
of the response to your original request.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9
5AF, [2]www.ico.org.uk

Kind regards

Leanne Purdy

Leanne Purdy | Legal Assistant

Hartlepool Borough Council

Email: [3][email address]

Ext 3482

Web: [4]www.hartlepool.gov.uk

Facebook: /hartlepoolcouncil

Twitter: @HpoolCouncil

show quoted sections