FOI Request x3
Request 1
- The total staffing budget for your PCC’s private office and political staff.
- The total number of staff employed in your PCC’s private or political office.
- The salary banding of those staff.
- The declarable interests of those staff.
Request 2
The total sum of money, if any, given to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in grant funding or other funding, since 2016 to the present day.
Request 3
Specifically, I would like to request the following information regarding funding allocations made by the council to the following groups:
1. Friends of the Earth
2. Plant-Based Future
3. Greenpeace
4. Unearthed.com Media
5. Extinction Rebellion
FOI Response
Request 1
The total staffing budget for your PCC’s private office and political staff.
Page 20 of this document contains the budget information for the Office of the police and Crime Commissioner for 2024/25.
The total number of staff employed in your PCC’s private or political office.
To clarify, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) is not the ‘PCC’s private office’ and we do not have ‘political staff’.
The OPCC is a public body made up of 33 members of staff, all of whom are in politically-restricted roles. This means our team are prevented from having an active political life, either inside or outside the workplace.
The OPCC is required by law to publish an organisational structure, which can be accessed on our website.
The salary banding of those staff.
A spreadsheet containing the salary bands of our staff roles is below:
FOI 2-24/25 – OPCC Establishment Salaries June 2024 (application, 17kB)
The declarable interests of those staff.
There is no requirement for OPCC staff to routinely declare their interests, however we recognise the importance of declaring relevant interests in line with the Nolan Principles.
Those with decision-making powers around procurement and commissioning are asked specifically about external interests to assist with internal and external audits.
Request 2
The OPCC does not hold any recorded information on this.
Request 3
The OPCC does not hold any recorded information on this.