Council staff working on climate action

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Dear Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council,

Please treat this as a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulations request.

I would like information about your council’s staff positions in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information is most likely to be held by a HR department or similar.

In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following questions:

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

I look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours faithfully,
Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK

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Environmental Information Request
Reference: EIR 101006830371

Dear Applicant,

Please consider this as our formal response to your information request which
was logged under the above reference number and treated as a request made under
the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.

I would like information about your council’s staff positions in relation to
climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information is
most likely to be held by a HR department or similar.

In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following
questions:

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?

- By March 2022 Stockport Council employed 2,552 FTEs

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.

•
Head of Climate Action Now (1 FTE)

•
Climate Action Now Project Manager (1 FTE)

•
Climate Action Now Senior Officer (1 FTE)

•
Decarbonisation Lead (1 FTE)

•
CAN Senior Planner (1 FTE)

•
Electrical Design Engineer (0.6 FTE)

•
Senior Arboriculture and Habitat Officer (0.8 FTE)

•
Nature Development Officer (0.6 FTE)

•(6 FTE) Who were working to encourage and facilitate low and no Carbon
transport such as walking and cycling and Electric Vehicle charging provision.

•(3 FTE) Road Safety Team promoting walking and cycling.

•(5 FTE) Flood team advising on planning applications and putting in flood
prevention schemes.

•(2 FTE) Who work to improve the Highway including low and no carbon transport
infrastructure.

•14 staff delivering walking, cycling or public transport schemes which improved
access to the public to low and no carbon transport.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

- Stockport Council employs a Decarbonisation Lead (1 FTE), who leads on
retrofitting across the council’s estate, including schools.

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).

- 1 Nature Development Officer (0.6 FTE) is employed to scrutinise planning
reports for Biodiversity Net Gain. We are intending to augment this team in line
with Biodiversity Net Gain legislation implementation.

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Environmental Information Request
Reference: EIR 101006830371

Dear Applicant,

Please ignore the previous response, this is the correct one.

I would like information about your council’s staff positions in relation to
climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards. This information is
most likely to be held by a HR department or similar.

In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following
questions:

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?

- The current staff count for the Council is 2907.