FOI/25/263

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I would like to request the following information from your organisation:

1. Staff Count: Could you please provide the current total number of staff employed by the trust? (please could this be broken down by each year from 2019 to 2024)

2. Remote/Hybrid Workers: How many staff members are currently designated as remote or hybrid workers? (please could this be broken down by each year from 2019 to 2024)

3. How many days per week are hybrid employees allowed to work from home?

4. Remote Working Policy: I would appreciate it if you could share a copy of the remote working policy implemented within the organisation.

5. How long has this been the policy and has it changed since the pandemic?

6. Monitoring Work Hours: How do you ensure that remote or hybrid workers fulfil their full contractual hours?

7. Laptop Purchases in 2024: In the year 2024 so far, how many new laptops have been procured specifically for remote or hybrid working?

8. Cost of Laptop Purchases: What has been the total cost associated with the procurement of these laptops in 2024 so far?

If this request will be over the cost and time limits for freedom of information requests, please ignore questions 7 and 8. If it is still over these limits, please could the questions be prioritised from question 1 onwards

 

Response

 1.Staff Count: Could you please provide the current total number of staff employed by the trust? (please could this be broken down by each year from 2019 to 2024)

2. Remote/Hybrid Workers: How many staff members are currently designated as remote or hybrid workers? (please could this be broken down by each year from 2019 to 2024)

 

Year	Headcount
Mar -2019	3412
Mar -2020	3956
Mar -2021	4088
Mar -2022	4543
Mar -2023	4663
Mar -2024	5028

 

Relates to question 1 and 2

3. How many days per week are hybrid employees allowed to work from home?

Staff members must work a minim of three days in the office /on site each week, pro-rated for part time staff
 

4. Remote Working Policy: I would appreciate it if you could share a copy of the remote working policy implemented within the organisation.

Attached
 

5. How long has this been the policy and has it changed since the pandemic?

Revised policy as of July 2024
 

6. Monitoring Work Hours: How do you ensure that remote or hybrid workers fulfil their full contractual hours?

This is managed locally by managers

 

7. Laptop Purchases in 2024: In the year 2024 so far, how many new laptops have been procured specifically for remote or hybrid working?

8. Cost of Laptop Purchases: What has been the total cost associated with the procurement of these laptops in 2024 so far?

If this request will be over the cost and time limits for freedom of information requests, please ignore questions 7 and 8. If it is still over these limits, please could the questions be prioritised from question 1 onwards.

We do not have a specific number for this at the moment for question 7 and 8, it will take longer than the timeframe we have. Time limits for compliance under the Freedom of Information Act (Section 10)