Environmental Health Staffing and Costs

These questions relate to Environmental Health / Public Protection teams covering Statutory Nuisance, Housing, Private Water Supplies, Contaminated Land, PPC, Air Quality, Food and Environmental Crime for the 2024/25 2025/26 financial years. Please could you provide the following: Question - (All questions relate to Environmental Health / Public Protection teams covering Statutory Nuisance, Housing, Private Water Supplies, Contaminated Land, PPC, Air Quality and Environmental Crime) 2024/25 Financial Year 2025/26 Financial Year 1 How many FTE contractors/agency staff were used in these areas? 2 The overall spend on contractors/agency staff in these areas? 3 What role(s) were the contractors / agency staff covering? E.g. investigation of nuisances or water sampling. 4 How long the contractor/ Agency staff were hired to complete this work to the nearest month? 5 How much was spent on over-time for non-agency staff within these areas? 6 How much was spent on training for teams within these areas? 7 How many staff did you recruit into teams within these areas?


FOI Reference : 4188181
Received Date: 09/04/2026