FOI - Total spend on staffing [Aug 2023]

Key information

Request reference number: MGLA130623-9724

Date of response: August 2023

Summary of request

Your request

Please provide the following for each of the last three financial years (2020-21 to 2022-23):

Total spend on staffing.
Total spend on agency staff.
Initial budget for spend on agency staff.
Annual percentage turnover rate.
Annual percentage sickness absence rate.

If possible, also provide the above requests broken down by department across your local authority.

Our response

Please find below the information we hold within the scope of your request.

1. Total spend on staffing

Staffing including agency costs for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2023:

Directorate	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23
Assembly and Secretariat	6,354,167	6,161,408	6,202,812
Chief Officer's Directorate	4,312,634	4,861,233	5,149,353
Communities and Skills	12,470,573	13,477,673	16,940,883
Good Growth	19,628,166	19,680,914	22,259,080
Housing and Land	11,954,254	13,195,900	15,496,959
Mayor's Office	5,669,653	5,451,818	5,511,652
Resources	9,124,513	9,357,939	8,924,158
Strategy and Communications	12,359,956	11,929,075	13,831,652
Grand Total	81,873,916	84,115,960	94,316,548

2. Total spend on agency staff

Agency costs for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2023

Directorate	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23
Assembly and Secretariat	578,093	790,171	210,269
Chief Officer's Directorate	71,758	238,891	628,900
Communities and Skills	546,887	718,950	1,061,819
Good Growth	1,249,090	1,771,695	1,661,247
Housing and Land	20,053	272,916	342,901
Mayor's Office	177,865	511,168	137,429
Resources	882,874	656,557	842,939
Strategy and Communications	606,190	886,297	669,711
Grand Total	4,132,809	5,846,644	5,555,215

3. Initial budget for spend on agency staff

The GLA does not have a specific budget for agency temps. Any agency staff costs are contained within existing pay or programme budgets.

4. Annual percentage turnover rate

Annual percentage turnover has been reported in the GLA’s workforce reports for 2020-2021 and 2021-2022:

1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021

1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022

The workforce report for 2022-23 will be published later this month.

5. Annual percentage sickness absence rate

The figures below represent the sickness absence rate for the financial year, for staff in post at the end of the financial year.

Notes

The number of staff in post on 31 March 2023 does not necessarily reflect our published workforce reports. Sickness absence periods are rounded up to a full day.

Department	Average Sick Day 2020-21	Sickness Absence Rate 2020-21	Average Sick Day 2021-22	Sickness Absence Rate 2021-22	Average Sick Day 2022-23	Sickness Absence Rate 2022-23
Assembly & Secretariat	2.8	1.2%	2.2	1.1%	3.1	1.4%
Chief Officer's Directorate	5.8	2.5%	5.1	2.3%	2.0	1.1%
Communities & Skills	2.6	1.1%	5.0	2.2%	2.9	1.3%
Good Growth	2.0	0.9%	2.9	1.3%	2.0	0.9%
Housing & Land	1.6	0.8%	2.4	1.0%	1.5	0.7%
Mayor's Office	2.4	1.0%	0.8	0.4%	0.3	0.1%
Resources	3.2	1.3%	8.1	3.3%	12.5	5.2%
Strategy & Communications	3.5	1.5%	5.5	2.5%	4.4	1.9%
Grand Total	2.6	1.1%	4.2	1.9%	3.4	1.5%

If you have any further questions relating to this matter, please contact us, quoting reference MGLA130623-9724.

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