Response 3899563
Response to request for information
Reference
3899563
Response date
17 February 2026
Request
From the current financial year's budgeted figures and the prior three years outturn (i.e. years ended 31st March 2023, 31st March 2024 and 31st March 2025:
- Climate-related posts
- The number of posts (headcount, and FTE where recorded) employed by the council with job titles that include any of the following terms:
- Climate;
- Net Zero;
- Sustainability;
- Carbon;
- Emissions;
- Environmental Sustainability;
- Climate Change;
- Climate Action;
- Climate Policy;
- Climate Programme;
- Climate Project;
- Climate Data;
- Climate Reporting;
- Climate Adaptation;
- Climate Resilience;
- Energy and Climate;
- Sustainable Procurement;
- Green Finance;
- Green;
- Climate crisis;
- Climate emergency.
- The number of posts (headcount, and FTE where recorded) employed by the council with job titles that include any of the following terms:
- Cost of those posts
- The total employment cost for the posts identified in Question 1, including salary and employer on-costs (e.g. pension and National Insurance), as recorded by the council.
- External consultants
- The total amount paid during the same financial year to external consultants, companies, or contractors where the expenditure is recorded under any cost centre, project code, budget line, or purchase description that includes one or more of the following terms:
- Climate;
- Net Zero;
- Sustainability;
- Carbon;
- Emissions;
- Environmental Sustainability;
- Climate Change;
- Climate Action;
- Climate Policy;
- Climate Programme;
- Climate Project; Climate Data;
- Climate Reporting;
- Climate Adaptation;
- Climate Resilience;
- Energy and Climate;
- Sustainable Procurement;
- Green Finance;
- Green;
- Climate crisis;
- Climate emergency.
- The total amount paid during the same financial year to external consultants, companies, or contractors where the expenditure is recorded under any cost centre, project code, budget line, or purchase description that includes one or more of the following terms:
This should include, but not be limited to, expenditure coded to professional services, consultancy, advisory services, or specialist support. If the council does not record expenditure in this way, please provide the closest equivalent recorded information held (for example, totals by relevant cost centre or project). If any information requested is not held, please state this clearly. If figures are held only in aggregated form, please provide the aggregated figures. Estimates derived from recorded financial information are acceptable.
Response
The information requested is contained in the response spreadsheet.