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Dear council team

I am looking for the number of refuse workers in your local authority area. Could you please provide the FTE number of staff employed to work in the following financial years – April 2017/18, April 18/19, April 19/20, April 20/21 and April 21/22?

As well as the number of council staff employed to collect bins and recycling, could you tell me how many agency staff your local authority has employed in the years specified.

Finally could you tell me the cost to the council of employing these agency staff.

I'm making this request under freedom of information legislation, so look forward to the response within 20 working days. Please do not hestitate to contact me if you need any clarifications. You can also call me on [phone number removed].

Yours faithfully,

Karin Goodwin

CNES FOI Team, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

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Re: FOI request (ticket ref [1]2022042627001254), please see response
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• The number of refuse workers in your local authority area. Could
you please provide the FTE number of staff employed to work in the
following
financial years – April 2017/18, April 18/19, April 19/20, April 20/21
and April 21/22?

17/18 - 40
18/19 - 40
19/20 - 40
20/21 - 40
21/22 - 40

• As well as the number of council staff employed to collect bins and
recycling,
could you tell me how many agency staff your local authority has
employed in the
years specified.

Agency staff are not utilised in our local authority area.

• Finally could you tell me the cost to the council of employing these
agency staff.

As above.

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04/26/2022 23:30 - Karin Goodwin wrote:

Dear council team

I am looking for the number of refuse workers in your local authority
area. Could
you please provide the FTE number of staff employed to work in the
following
financial years – April 2017/18, April 18/19, April 19/20, April 20/21 and
April
21/22?

As well as the number of council staff employed to collect bins and
recycling,
could you tell me how many agency staff your local authority has employed
in the
years specified.

Finally could you tell me the cost to the council of employing these
agency staff.

I'm making this request under freedom of information legislation, so look
forward
to the response within 20 working days. Please do not hestitate to contact
me if
you need any clarifications. You can also call me on [phone number removed].

Yours faithfully,

Karin Goodwin

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