Trade Unions - Find a freedom of information request

1. The details of any office accommodation your organisation provides to staff to carry out trade union business. Please include details of:

2. Do you deduct trade union subscriptions for any of your employees via payroll (sometimes known as the "check off" system)? If so, do you charge a fee to the trade unions concerned for providing this service? 

3. With regard to trade union facility time, please provide the total cost of facility time from your pay bill for the financial year 2023/24 and the budget for the current financial year. Please also advise the current number of employees that you fund to be union officials, measured as full time equivalents? (For guidance on definitions please refer to the Government's Transparency Code for local government: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-transparency-code-2015/local-government-transparency-code-2015)

4.  Please advise any estimates for other costs met for those staff on trade union facility time apart from salaries - including travel expenses, office supplies, telephone expenses and energy bills.
 

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council (LCC). I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. None.

2. Where employees have requested their union deduction to be made through their salary the Council does this as no fee to the Trade Unions.

3. Please refer to the following link: https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/trade-union-facility-time

4. LCC do not collect any info on reps claiming expenses