Trade Union Facility Time

1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025

We recognise two trade unions: 

UNISON and GMB 

Representatives 

We currently have 2 employees who are UNISON representatives (including general, learning and health and safety representatives) all of whom are full time employees.

Time spent on Facility Time 

The amount of time spent on facility time is 2.5 days (18.5 hours) per year.  As a percentage this is :

• 0% of working hours: 0 representatives
• 1 to 50% of working hours: 2 representatives 
• 51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives 
• 100% of working hours: 0 representatives

Cost of Facility Time 

The total pay bill  is £9,123,970.13 and facility time is estimated to cost £213.  This means that 0.009% of pay is spent on facility time.