Environmental Health Officers - Freedom of information requests

Title or Description: Environmental Health Officers
FOI Number: 422
Date Received: 27/04/2022
Type of Request: FOI
Request or Question: I am looking for information on your environmental health services.1. Could you please provide figures on the number of environmental health officers employed by the council over the last five financial years starting from April 2017/18 and including 18/19, 19/20, 20/21, 21/22. Please provide total number across the environmental health services you offer.2. I am also looking for numbers - again for the last five financial years - of the number of pest control workers (or equivalent job title in your LA). Could you also please provide the number of cases dealt with by pest control workers over the last five financial years?3. I am also looking for the number of officers charged with commercial waste enforcement over the last five years as well as the number of cases in the same time period.
Response: 1.
Headcount figures below as requested:
Year Headcount - Environmental Health Officer Headcount - Pest Control Officer
2017/18 (snapshot date 31/03/2018) 11 2
2018/19 (snapshot date 31/03/2019) 10 2
2019/20 (snapshot date 31/03/2020) 7 2
2020/21 (snapshot date 31/03/2021) 8 2
2021/22 (snapshot date 31/03/2012) 7 2

2. For the last five financial years (2017 – 2022) there have been 2 pest control officers employed by SBC.
4714 pest control cases (service requests and contracts) have been dealt with by pest control over the last five financial years.

3.
Year Headcount - Trade Waste Officer/Waste and Recycling Advisor
2017/18 (snapshot date 31/03/2018) 2
2018/19 (snapshot date 31/03/2019) 5
2019/20 (snapshot date 31/03/2020) 4
2020/21 (snapshot date 31/03/2021) 4
2021/22 (snapshot date 31/03/2012) 5