FI15888

Request

  1. The total number of political assistants/researchers currently employed by your Council. These may be staff allocated to assist different councillor political groups.
  2. The total number of policy officers currently employed by your Council.
  3. The total number of scrutiny officers/scrutiny co-ordinators employed by your Council to administer Council committees.
  4. The total number of committee clerks (other than scrutiny officers/scrutiny co-ordinators) employed by your Council to administer Council committees.

Response

  1. Zero.
  2. There are six members of staff in Planning and one in Housing who have the word ‘policy’ in their job title.
  3. Zero.
  4. The support for clerking the Overview and Scrutiny Committee forms part of the Democratic Services team. One officer is responsible for clerking Overview and Scrutiny Committee but that is not the only committee that they clerk.