Dear Requester

Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
received on 16/Jan/2023.  We have registered your request under reference
number FOI 08526 and would be grateful if you would please use this
reference and the email address [Eden District Council request email] on any future
correspondence relating to this request.

We aim to respond to your request no later than 14/Feb/2023.

Description of 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).

Whilst it is the Council’s policy to provide information wherever
possible, we need to advise you that there are a number of exemptions
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which may prevent the release of
some or all of the information you have requested. Some exemptions are
absolute and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the
exemption outweighs that in disclosing the information. You will be
informed if this is the case and the reason why.

Once the information has been identified the Authority may also ask that a
fee be paid for processing and delivering the information to you. Details
of any fee to be charged will be notified to you as soon as possible.

Under the terms of the legislation, we have an obligation to respond to
your request within 20 working days from the day after your request was
received.  However, please be aware that some services may experience a
reduction in staffing levels due to absence or because resources have been
diverted to support frontline services to respond to the Covid-19
pandemic. Therefore, in some cases there may be a delay in issuing a
response. In the meantime, you may find some of the information you are
looking for on the searchable Disclosure Log: [1]Responses to Freedom of
Information Requests on our website.

Yours faithfully

Eden District Council

FOI Team

Tel: 01768 817817
Email: [Eden District Council request email]

Town Hall
Penrith
Cumbria CA11 7QF

www.eden.gov.uk

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Dear Hannah Jewell,

 

Freedom of Information Request Relating to Council Staff.

 

Further to your request which was logged under reference FOI: 08526, we
are now in a position to provide a response to your request for
information under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

Please find the information requested 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?

Eden District Council currently directly employs 186 staff members.

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.

Eden District Council employs 1 Sustainability Team Leader (1 FTE), 2
Sustainability Officers (2 FTE) and 1 Ecologist (1 FTE) that work full
time on carbon reduction, climate change, biodiversity and others
climate/carbon related 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.

The Sustainability Team undertake work on decarbonisation projects for our
own estate.

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

1 Sustainability Team leader (1FTE), 1 Sustainability Officer (1 FTE).

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.

 None 

 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).

Eden District Council currently employs 1 Ecologist (1 FTE).

 

We hope this satisfies your query. However if you are dissatisfied with
this response, you can request an internal review under the Council’s
Complaints Procedure. To do this, you will need to contact; Assistant
Director Legal and Democratic Services (Monitoring Officer) by email:
[1][email address], or in writing to: Eden District Council, Town Hall,
Penrith CA11 7QF, within 40 working days of receipt of this response.

 

You can also complain to the Information Commissioner (ICO) at:
Information Commissioner’s Officer, Wycliffe House, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF or by telephoning 0303 123 1113.  Generally the ICO cannot make a
decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by
Eden District Council.

 

Most of the information that we provide in response to Freedom of
Information Act 2000 requests will be subject to copyright protection.  In
most cases the copyright will be owned by Eden District Council.  The
copyright in other information may be owned by another person or
organisation as indicated on the information itself.

 

You are free to use any of the information supplied for your own
non-commercial research or private study purposes. The information may
also be used for any other purpose allowed by a limitation or exception in
copyright law, such as news reporting.  However, any other type of re-use,
for example by publishing the information in analogue or digital format,
including on the internet, will require the permission of the copyright
owner.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Eden District Council

 

FOI team

Eden District Council, Town Hall, Penrith CA11 7QF

Tel: 01768 817817

E-mail: [2][Eden District Council request email]

 

[3]www.eden.gov.uk

 

 

 

From: foi <[Eden District Council request email]>
Sent: 19 January 2023 11:05
To: [FOI #938089 email]
Subject: Freedom of Information request relating to Council Staff -
Climate Action - Reference FOI 08526

 

Dear Requester

Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
received on 16/Jan/2023.  We have registered your request under reference
number FOI 08526 and would be grateful if you would please use this
reference and the email address [4][Eden District Council request email] on any future
correspondence relating to this request.

We aim to respond to your request no later than 14/Feb/2023.

Description of 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).

Whilst it is the Council’s policy to provide information wherever
possible, we need to advise you that there are a number of exemptions
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which may prevent the release of
some or all of the information you have requested. Some exemptions are
absolute and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the
exemption outweighs that in disclosing the information. You will be
informed if this is the case and the reason why.

Once the information has been identified the Authority may also ask that a
fee be paid for processing and delivering the information to you. Details
of any fee to be charged will be notified to you as soon as possible.

Under the terms of the legislation, we have an obligation to respond to
your request within 20 working days from the day after your request was
received.  However, please be aware that some services may experience a
reduction in staffing levels due to absence or because resources have been
diverted to support frontline services to respond to the Covid-19
pandemic. Therefore, in some cases there may be a delay in issuing a
response. In the meantime, you may find some of the information you are
looking for on the searchable Disclosure Log: [5]Responses to Freedom of
Information Requests on our website.

Yours faithfully

Eden District Council

FOI Team

Tel: 01768 817817
Email: [6][Eden District Council request email]

Town Hall
Penrith
Cumbria CA11 7QF

[7]www.eden.gov.uk

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