Could you please provide the following for each of the last three financial years, 2020/2021, 2021/2022 and 2022/2023.
1. Total spend on staffing.
2. Total spend on agency staff.
3. Initial budget for spend on agency staff.
4. Annual percentage turnover rate.
5. Annual percentage sickness absence rate.
If possible, the above 5 requests also broken down by department across Devon County Council.
Please note that Devon County Council does not budget by service area.
| Year | Gross Pay | Agency Spend | Gross Agency Budget | Turnover | Sickness Absence |
| 2020/2021 | £180,302,850 | £11,601,962 | Not held. | 8.17% | 9.12% |
| 2021/2022 | £192,733,711 | £15,223,408 | £10,883,000 | 12.76% | 12.03% |
| 2022/2023 | £217,595,981 | £19,048,331 | £15,457,000 | 13.38% | 11.52% |
Devon County Council did not budget for agency staff in the financial year of 2020/2021.
Please note that the above figures are gross budgets and we may also have budgeted for grant income or to charge fees to offset a proportion of them. Furthermore, it should also be noted that agency staff are often bought in to fill short term staffing issues and are therefore often funded from the underspends within substantive salary budgets.