Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 128-2026
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
From the financial year 2024/25, 2023/24, and 2022/23 figures:
1. Climate-related posts
a) 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.
Our response:
2 x full time, Head of Sustainability and Sustainability Project Manager
You asked:
2. 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.
Our response:
Band 8a – £62,682 per annum
Band 7 – £56,515 per annum
You asked:
3. 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.
Our response:
Carbon Footprint Reporting – £3,800
Please note: We are a National Health Service (Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust) not a council.
Next steps:
Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:
Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk
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