Corporate report

Environment Agency corporate scorecard quarter two 2019 to 2020

Published 2 July 2020

The Environment Agency corporate scorecard shows a high level overview of our performance against our environmental and business aims.

The scorecard is reported every 3 months to executive directors and the board within the Environment Agency. Our Corporate Scorecard enables us to monitor how well we are achieving our stated aims as set out in the Environment Agency Action plan. It is also shared with the Department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra), and is published here. Our corporate scorecard measures also contribute towards the wider Defra single departmental plan.

1. Corporate scorecard summary page

We use a red amber green system to see at a glance how we are performing. Green means we are performing at or above the target(s) set, amber means we are falling slightly short of the target and red means there is improvements to be made.

This table shows the red, amber green scores for the 12 measures plus the actual and target figures.

1.1 Protecting and improving the environment

Measure title	Units	Q2 Actual	Q2 Target	Year end target	Q2 Status	Year end forecast
The water environment is healthier (Defra)	Kilometres	1489	1816	2,300	Amber	Amber
We protect people, the environment and wildlife by reducing serious pollution incidents (Defra)	Number of incidents in the last 12 months	390	400	400	Green	Amber
We increase biodiversity and promote an environmental net gain by creating more and better habitats for the benefit of people and wildlife (Defra)	Hectares created	Reposts in Q4	Reports in Q4	Reports I Q4	Green	Green
We reduce the number of high risk illegal waste sites (Defra)	Number of high waste sites	264	196	196	Red	Red
We reduce the risk of flooding for more households (Defra)	Number of households better protected	200,425	196,000	240,000	Green	Green
We maintain our flood and costal risk management assets at or above the target condition (Defra)	% of high risk assets at target condition	96.9%	98%	98%	Amber	Green
We have a first class incident response capability - number of staff trained and ready to respond to incidents (Defra)	Number of people	6,460	6,000	6,000	Green	Green
We successfully influence planning decisions by local authorities	% decision notices successfully influenced	96.5%	97.0%	97.0%	Amber	Green

1.2 Outstanding organisation

Measure title	Units	Q1 Year to date actual	Q1 Year to date target	Year end target	Q1 year to date status	Forecast
We manage our money efficiently	% spend on budget	93%	100%	100%	Amber	Green
We reduce our carbon footprint	Tonnes of carbon dioxide	14,019	15,438	30,876	Green	Green
We have a diverse workforce: a) The proportion of our staff are from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME)	% of workforce	4.3%	14%	14%	Red	Red
We have a diverse workforce: b) The proportion of our executive managers who are female	% of executive manager workforce	41%	50%	50%	Red	Red
We have the lowest possible lost time incident (LTI) frequency rate	LTI frequency rate per 100,000 hours	0.11	0.11	0.11	Green	Green

Key: (DEFRA) this measure is reported to Defra on the Defra scorecard

2. The water environment is healthier

Q2 Status	Q2 actual (km)	Q2 target	Year end Forecast	Year end target (km)
Amber	1,489	1,816	Amber	2,300

During quarter two we and our partners have enhanced a further 538km of the water environment, bringing the total to 1,489km for 2019/20 and 6,479km since the publication of the 2015 updated river basin management plans. The majority of the enhancements reported this quarter have been achieved through the Area Environment Programme, and Area Flood & Coastal Risk Management programmes. Work has focussed on improving the fish and eel passage across the country, for example, in Thames area as part of the Thames European Eels project. We have also improved habitat within a number of water bodies; for example, the restoration of Holt Heath mire in Wessex area, and in North Lincolnshire, has enhanced 36km by planting 9,000 acres with cover crops to reduce diffuse pollution. Natural flood management work has also contributed to enhancements in this quarter. We have also undertaken works to protect 862km of water bodies from deterioration. The majority of these have been from protecting the River Exe in Devon, a principal salmon river. We intervened following the collapse of a weir in Exeter to maintain flows in the river, ensuring adult salmon continue to be able to access all parts of the catchment.

Kilometres of rivers, lakes and coastal waters enhanced this year

Quarter	Actual km	Target km
Q1 2018/19	1,044	1,014
Q2 2018/19	1,213	1,345
Q3 2018/19	1,426	1,602
Q4 2018/19	1,719	2,000
Q1 2019/20	951	970
Q2 2019/20	1,489	1,816

Insight cumulative totals

Quarter	Actual km	Target km
Q1 2018/19	4,314	3,745
Q2 2018/19	4,483	4,076
Q3 2018/19	4,696	4,333
Q4 2018/19	4,989	4,731
Q1 2019/20	5,939	5,959
Q2 2019/20	6,479	6,805

Actions

Action(s)	Owner(s)	Deadline(s)
Area leads to continue to capture km enhanced because these still need to be reported as they are a “protect” measure.	Area reporting leads	31/12/2019

3. We protect people, the environment and wildlife by reducing serious pollution incidents

Q2 Status	Q2 actual (+10%)	Actual minus Natural Cause	Ceiling target	Year end forecast	Year end target
Green	390 (429)	364	400	Amber	400

Performance - no. of category 1 and 2 pollution incidents

The data shown here is using initial quarterly data which is subject to change. The results for the most recent quarters are likely to increase in future reports due to the inherent lag time in investigating and recording all the necessary incident details onto the reporting system.

Quarter	Cat 1	Cat 2	+10%	Q Total actual cat 1 and 2 shown	Target
2013/14 Q4	60	636	N/A	696	436
2014/15 Q4	56	546	N/A	602	631
2015/16 Q4	66	441	N/A	507	631
2016/17 Q4	54	441	N/A	495	553
2017/18 Q4	54	376	N/A	430	496
2018/19 Q2	85	454	N/A	539	400
2018/19 Q3	83	450	N/A	533	400
2018/19 Q4	76	442	N/A	518	400
2019/20 Q1	66	423	N/A	489	400
2019/20 Q2	44	346	39	390	400

After seeing a significant rise in pollution incidents in 2013 we have targeted the sectors showing the poorest performance. For each sector we developed Pollution Incident Reduction Plans which we are now delivering. Incidents can be weather-related and will continue to show significant seasonal variations, especially as our weather patterns become more extreme.

Illegal Waste main contributors

Quarter	Illegal waste site	Burning of waste	Unauthorised waste management activity	Fly-tipping	Other
2018 Oct - Dec	13	5	2	2	0
2019 Jan - Mar	13	0	2	1	2
2019 Apr - Jun	11	1	2	4	0
2019 Jul - Sep	3	1	1	3	1

Category 1 and 2 incidents from illegal waste management

Quarter	Total
2015 Jul - Sep	13
2015 Oct - Dec	14
2016 Jan - Mar	14
2016 Apr - Jun	26
2016 Jul - Sep	30
2016 Oct - Dec	22
2017 Jan - Mar	22
2017 Apr - Jun	11
2017 Jul - Sep	8
2017 Oct - Dec	10
2018 Jan - Mar	17
2018 Apr - Jun	20
2018 Jul - Sep	22
2018 Oct - Dec	22
2019 Jan - Mar	18
2019 Apr - Jun	18
2019 Jul - Sep	9

Water Company Main Contributors

Quarter	Water distribution system	Sewage treatment works	Foul sewer	Rising Main	Pumping station	Surface water outfall
2018 Oct - Dec	3	1	4	4	1	0
2019 Jan - Mar	1	1	4	0	2	0
2019 Apr - Jun	3	4	5	0	4	2
2019 Jul - Sep	1	4	4	2	4	1

Category 1 and 2 incidents from the water company sector

Quarter	Total
2015 Jul - Sep	26
2015 Oct - Dec	11
2016 Jan - Mar	9
2016 Apr - Jun	13
2016 Jul - Sep	30
2016 Oct - Dec	14
2017 Jan - Mar	5
2017 Apr - Jun	20
2017 Jul - Sep	15
2017 Oct - Dec	17
2018 Jan - Mar	6
2018 Apr - Jun	15
2018 Jul - Sep	25
2018 Oct - Dec	15
2019 Jan - Mar	8
2019 Apr - Jun	19
2019 Jul - Sep	18

Agriculture main contributors

Quarter	Dairy and livestock	Intensive farming	Arable and horticulture	Other / unspecified agriculture
2017 Oct - Dec	5	7	1	0
2019 Jan - Mar	6	3	0	0
2019 Apr - Jun	2	1	4	0
2019 Jul - Sep	4	0	0	1

Category 1 and 2 incidents from agriculture

Quarter	Total
2015 Jul - Sep	27
2015 Oct - Dec	17
2016 Jan - Mar	33
2016 Apr - Jun	13
2016 Jul - Sep	16
2016 Oct - Dec	8
2017 Jan - Mar	19
2017 Apr - Jun	9
2017 Jul - Sep	15
2017 Oct - Dec	25
2018 Jan - Mar	26
2018 Apr - Jun	23
2018 Jul - Sep	15
2018 Oct - Dec	13
2019 Jan - Mar	9
2019 Apr - Jun	12
2019 Jul - Sep	5

Non regulated industry sectors main contributors

Quarter	Natural source	Domestic & residential	Service sector	Manufacturing	Transport	Retail sector
2018 Oct - Dec	2	8	3	1	2	3
2019 Jan - Mar	4	3	5	4	0	1
2019 Apr - Jun	9	6	2	1	2	0
2018 Jul - Sep	11	2	4	2	1	1

Category 1 and 2 incidents from non regulated industry sectors

Quarter	Total
2015 Jul - Sep	39
2015 Oct - Dec	19
2016 Jan - Mar	19
2016 Apr - Jun	25
2016 Jul - Sep	30
2016 Oct - Dec	19
2017 Jan - Mar	21
2017 Apr - Jun	26
2017 Jul - Sep	23
2017 Oct - Dec	13
2018 Jan - Mar	24
2018 Apr - Jun	26
2018 Jul - Sep	66
2018 Oct - Dec	21
2019 Jan - Mar	17
2019 Apr - Jun	22
2019 Jul - Sep	21

Which sectors make up the most number of category 1 and 2 pollution incidents over the last 12 months

Sector	Number of incidents	Cumulative %
Agriculture	39	100%
Other non regulated industry sectors	81	21%
Other regulated industry sectors	68	75%
Not identified	80	41%
Water company	60	90%
Illegal waste management	67	58%

Commentary

1. Quarter two incident numbers At this stage 95 serious incidents were recorded for quarter two 2019/20. This compares with 147 at this stage last year.

2. Summary Compared to 2018/19 we experienced a reduced number of incidents and this is attributed to less extreme summer weather. This time last year there were 492 incidents recorded (subsequently increased to 539) compared with the 390 incidents recorded that we currently have. The target for the year is no more than 400. Following feedback from last quarter we are showing what the actual current number of incidents is, minus current natural cause.

3. Sector insights a) Agriculture: In quarter two five incidents are attributed to agriculture which is significantly less than in the last five years. This is likely to be an effect of two years of drier weather. Four of these incidents are slurry related, following the trend of slurry management being the highest cause of agricultural incidents. They were caused by poor, insufficient or faulty storage. The remaining incident relates to a spillage of domestic heating oil at an agricultural premises. Quarter two covers the summer months where there are less likely to be agricultural incidents from slurry as these are more often related to winter storage, rainfall and spreading. There are no Intensive Farming Incidents this quarter which bucks the trend. b) Illegal Waste: There were nine incidents in quarter two, all of which were category two. This is the second lowest number of incidents of this type recorded since 2015. The incidents included three illegal waste sites and three illegal dumping incidents. The incidents occurred over four different areas and appear unconnected. Of the incidents, three have been recommended for prosecution, two for warning letters and one formal caution with the remainder either still under investigation or the offenders yet to be identified. We continue to tackle waste crime as a corporate priority. The Defra Resource and Waste Strategy presents a comprehensive series of actions and ambitions for tackling waste crime. c) Water Companies: Incidents in quarter two show a very slight decrease from quarter one (from 19 in quarter one to 18 in quarter two). The overall trend is consistent with seasonal fluctuations and annual totals show a broadly constant level for five years. Incidents in quarter two 2019/20 were caused by both clean water assets (three) and waste water assets (15). Of the 15 waste water incidents, there were four each from foul sewers, sewage treatment works and pumping stations, two from rising mains and one from surface water outfalls. We are progressing some work streams now and embedding the Improving Water Company Performance Programme, drawn from Environment & Business and Operations, to review and improve how we regulate to improve water company performance. In June our Operations Executive Director met water company CEOs and pressed the need for improvement. We published the annual performance report in July and used media messages to further this influence. The Secretary of State called in the company CEOs in July to press for faster performance improvements. We will build on this with a letter from James Bevan requesting pollution incident reduction plans d) Other Non-Regulated sectors: There are 21 incidents recorded in quarter two 2019/20 this compares to 62 for the same quarter of 2018/19. Much of this reduction can be attributed to incidents recorded as natural. e) Other Regulated sectors and Not Identified: There are 12 incidents from the Other Regulated Sectors. This compare with 25 for the same quarter of 2018/19. There are 30 Not Identified incidents for quarter two 2019/20. Overall this represents an increase, we will further review these to understand what can be done to identify them.

Actions

Action(s)	Owner(s)	Deadline(s)
Detailed analysis of IWS data from National Incident Report System (NIRS) and Case Management System (CMS) to understand discrepancies in reported trends and further review of the use of sub-sector fields to improve clarity, consistency and value of this measure.	Enforcement and Waste Crime Manager	31/03/2020
Produce intervention plan to reduce pollution incidents in the ‘other’ sector, where achievable by the EA (includes service sector, transport, natural causes, unidentified, food & drink, other regulated sectors).	Deputy Director Radioactive Substances and Industry Regulation	30/09/2020

4. We increase biodiversity and promote an environmental net gain by creating more and better habitats for the benefit of people and wildlife

Q2 Status	Q2 actual	Q2 target	Forecast	Year end target
Green	Reports in Q4	Reports in Q4	Green	1,280 Hectares (ha)

Quarter	Hectares created	Target
2014/15	1,869	700
2015/16	575	300
2016/17	424	400
2017/18	619	530
2018/19	460	410

Commentary

Several areas are now likely to exceed their targets, mainly because long-standing legal issues have been resolved. Cumbria and Lancashire expect to contribute an extra 69 hectares, Hertfordshire and North London 29 hectares and Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire 82 hectares. Taken with the losses notified in quarter one (although Yorkshire’s forecast has improved to just 9.5 hectares) and a further expected loss of seven hectares in West Midlands we expect to beat the target by 73 hectares.

5. We reduce the number of high risk illegal waste sites

Q2 Status	Q2 actual	Ceiling target	Forecast	Year end target
Red	264	196	Red	196

Commentary

During quarter two the number of active high risk sites increased, for the third quarter in succession, from 260 to 264 whilst the total number of all active sites remained static at 691. Six areas recorded quarter two reductions in their number of high risk sites, and whilst seven areas remain under their baseline totals, we are red against the quarter two profiled target of 223. The number of active sites over two years old has now risen to 215. On average it is taking us 237 days to stop an illegal waste site despite 49% of new sites being stopped in less than 90 days. There is a growing risk from the increasing age profile of active sites which merits greater focus in tandem with early intervention at new sites. Our enforcement strategy is approaching sign-off and we have begun drafting a waste enforcement strategy to ensure the effective deployment of resource in tackling waste crime. We know that EU Exit and other pressures are affecting our ability to direct enough resource to this work and we are working to understand what more we can do to reduce illegal waste site numbers in the short term. We continue to train and embed the additional staff funded by the £30m for waste crime and ensure our evaluation is focussed on identifying our most effectiveness interventions.

Number of high risk illegal waste sites in England

Quarter	Total	Ceiling target
Baseline	380	380
Q4 17/18	259	223
Q1 18/19	255	254
Q2 18/09	260	240
Q3 18/09	233	219
Q4 18/19	250	196
Q1 19/20	260	196
Q2 19/20	264	196

Actions

Action(s)	Owner(s)	Deadline(s)
Commence Phase II of Waste Crime Systems Review including trialling new interventions and performance metrics.	Lead Area Director for Enforcement	31/10/2019
Undertake an internal review of current activity to tackle illegal waste sites and identify any short term measures to reduce number of high risk sites.	Deputy Director for Waste Regulation	31/12/2019
Complete drafting and sign-off of a Waste Enforcement Strategy	Deputy Director for Waste Regulation	31/12/2019

6. We reduce the risk from flooding to more households

Q2 Status	Q2 actual	Cumulative target	Forecast	Year end target
Green	200,425	196,000	Green	240,000

Commentary

30 separate projects have better protected 5,170 homes in quarter two of 2019/20 bringing the cumulative total since April 2015 to 200,425.

The scheme that took us over the 200,000 homes better protected milestone was Cottingham and Orchard Park Flood Alleviation Scheme in Yorkshire Area, which better protected 1,008 homes and is forecast to better protect a further 1,042 by the end of 2019/20.

We are forecasting the cumulative delivery at the end of 2019/20 to be over 250,000 against a target of 240,000 and the programme remains on track to better protect 300,000 homes by the end of March 2021.

Houses protected

2019/20 programme cumulative target = (240,000)

Quarter	Total
Q1 2018/19	144,210
Q2 2018/19	146,274
Q3 2018/19	155,385
Q4 2018/19	193,604
Q1 2019/20	195,255
Q2 2019/20	200,425

7. We maintain our flood and coastal risk management assets at or above the target condition

Q2 Status	Q2 actual	Target	Green	Year end target
Amber	96.9%	98%	Green	98%

Commentary

The National position for KPI 962 Environment Agency high consequence has reduced to 96.9%. This reflects the inspection programme being more front end loaded whilst asset repairs tend to be delivered later in the year. Ten of the areas are currently more than 1% below the national target. Work to date suggests that the National target of 98% will be a challenge, the mitigating actions are currently being reviewed and actions implemented within areas with the aim of improving the position.

Where assets are below the required condition this identifies that work is required, this does not mean that they have structurally failed or that performance in a flood is compromised. If the performance of an asset is reduced, we will take action to ensure that flood risk is effectively managed until the asset is fully repaired or replaced.

% of high consequence assets at or above the required target condition

Quarter	% Actual (Rounded)	% Target
2017/18	97.7%	97.5%
Q1 18/19	97.2%	97.5%
Q2 18/19	96.9%	97.5%
Q3 18/19	96.8%	97.5%
Q4 18/19	97.9%	97.5%
Q1 19/20	97.2%	97.5%
Q2 19/20	96.9%	97.5%

No. of high consequence assets passing

At or above required target condition (EA)	Below required target condition (EA)
31725	1,021

Actions

Action(s)	Owner(s)	Deadline(s)
Review of area plans and funding requirements to achieve the required improvements to asset condition.	Deputy Director, Operations	01/09/2019
Provision of improved management reporting for below required condition assets.	Deputy Director, Flood Risk & Coastal Management	01/08/2019

8. We have a first class incident response capability. Number of staff who are trained and ready to respond to incidents

Q2 Status	Q2 actual	Q2 target	Forecast	Year end target
Green	6,460	6,000	Green	6,000

We estimate that there are 6,460 trained and capable incident staff ready to respond to incidents. This is 108% of the target 6,000.

There has been a small reduction on last quarter’s figures, reflecting natural staff turnover and ongoing work by role leads to improve assessment of role capability and quality assurance of the information recorded.

We continue to maintain a strong pool of around 800 people in training who will contribute to our trained and ready workforce as they become capable and confident in their roles.

We also have an additional 200 staff from core Defra who support communications during incidents.

Number of staff who are trained and ready to respond to incidents

Quarter	Number
2017 Jan - Mar	6,716
2018 Jan - Mar	6,568
2018 Apr - Jun	6,568
2018 Jul - Sep	6,507
2018 Oct - Dec	6,698
2019 Jan - Mar	6,657
2019 Apr - Jun	6,548
2019 Jul - Sep	6,460

Actions

Action(s)	Owner(s)	Deadline(s)
We will continue to reflect the contribution of people who do not have an incident role but play a critical role in our incident response through their day job.	Deputy Director Incident Management & Resilience (SM)	31/12/2019
Ensure all incident staff continue to manage their own professional capability through the Incident Management Academy. This will also enable us to accurately capture information for this measure.	Deputy Director Incident Management & Resilience (SM)	31/12/2019
Continue to support a culture that gives the ability to balance our incident and day job roles by promoting personal resilience, and stop, slow, reset initiatives.	Deputy Director Incident Management & Resilience (SM)	31/12/2019
We will ensure any impacts on incident staff resilience from EU Exit negotiations are managed effectively through Stop slow reset planning arrangements and continued support for our people. Whilst we may see an impact on training of new staff, we expect the overall numbers to be maintained as incident response is prioritised.	Deputy Director Incident Management & Resilience (SM)	31/12/2019

9. We successfully influence planning decisions by local planning authorities

Q2 Status	Q2 actual	Q2 target	Green	Year end target
Amber	96.5%	97%	Green	97%

Performance for quarter two is 95.5% against a target of 97% and therefore amber. There were 43 applications not determined in line with our advice, 10 of which were for ‘major’ development. The majority of objections made related to flood risk issues, with seven instances of local planning authorities (LPAs) not insisting on flood risk assessments to be undertaken when required, this is also against government planning policy. LPAs have also overruled our advice in relation to land contamination, pollution control and biodiversity matters.

Areas will be requested to investigate why LPAs are not making decisions in line with our advice and implement measures to address this. Where local conversations with LPAs don’t result in better uptake of our advice (particularly where this is also contrary to government planning policy) this can be raised nationally with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (MHCLG). With appropriate plans in place the CSM should be green by the end of the year.

On a positive note, decisions captured this quarter show how working with developers and LPAs has helped resolve significant environmental issues that could otherwise have led to planning applications for 9,481 new residential units being refused. These residential developments will help contribute around £160m to UK economic output.

% decision notices where Local Planning Authorities have accepted our representations

Quarter	Total
2016/17	97.4%
2017/18	96.7%
Q1 2018/19	97.2%
Q2 2018/19	97.8%
Q3 2018/19	97.2%
Q4 2018/19	97.2%
Q1 2019/20	97.5%
Q2 2019/20	96.5%

Actions

Action(s)	Owner(s)	Deadline(s)
Areas that are failing to successfully influence 97% of planning decisions to investigate the reasons for this and put in place measures to ensure that they reach a performance level of 97% by the end of quarter four.	Relevant Area Environment, Planning and Engagement Managers	31/12/2019

10. We manage our money effectively to deliver our outcomes

Q2 Status	Q2 actual (£m)	Q2 budget (£m)	Forecast	Year end target
Amber	£574 m	£618m	Green	100%

We invested 43% of full year budget in the first half of 2019/20. This is a little below the proportion invested to the same point last year (45%), although the amount invested this year is higher than in 2018/19 (£574m vs £558m). EDT in October reviewed the mid-year position including full year forecast spend versus funding, and agreed a number of actions to ensure best use of our available funding for the environment.

Cumulative expenditure against YTD budget (%)

Quarter	Total
Q1 18/19	97%
Q2 18/19	99%
Q3 18/19	99%
Q4 18/19	100%
Q1 19/20	95%
Q2 19/20	93%

Cumulative expenditure against YTD budget (£m)

Quarter	Planned profiled cumulative expenditure (£m)	Actual cumulative expenditure (£m)
Q1 18/19	£272	£264
Q2 18/19	£566	£558
Q3 18/19	£865	£857
Q4 18/19	£1,227	£1,227
Q1 19/20	£286	£273
Q2 19/20	£618	£574

Actions

Action(s)	Owner(s)	Deadline(s)
Conduct a mid year financial review to be presented to EA Directors in October.	Director of Finance	31/10/2019

11. We reduce our carbon footprint

Quarter 2 year to date carbon dioxide emissions (tonnes)

Q2 Status	Q2 actual	Ceiling target	Year end target
Green	14,019	15,438	30,876

11.2 Quarter 2 year to date carbon dioxide emissions by type (tonnes)

Type	Status	Actual	Target
Total	Green	14,019	15,438
Operational fuel	Green	1,601	1,930
Travel	Green	4,420	4,477
Buildings (inc labs)	Green	2,413	2,856
Pumping	Green	5,585	6,175

Our Carbon Dioxide emissions are 9% under the mid-year target and the emissions remain similar to the same period last year.

Due to dry prolonged dry weather conditions during quarter one and quarter two last year, our operational pumping emissions were high. This year our emissions increased in quarter one due to operation of Ely-Ouse Transfer Scheme following maintenance work but balanced out by significant reduction in operation during quarter two.

Facilities Management (FM), although well within their mid-year target, have seen a slight increase (10%, 178 tonnes) in buildings emissions compared to last year. National Laboratory Service (NLS) are well within their mid-year target. Electricity use and associated emissions has fallen considerably with the closure of the Nottingham site. Defra reduced the conversion factor again in June, reflecting the change in UK grid mix of renewables, which accounted for some of the drop in our emissions.

Carbon emissions from our travel remain similar to the same period last year, although there’s a slight increase of 3%, 109 tonnes on last year. We continue to work closely with our Fleet Operations team in greening our Fleet to help meet this target. We continue to see an increase in the use of number of hybrids (increased to 31% compared to 16% at the end of quarter two last year). The number of electric vehicles have also significantly increased which now makes up 1% of our total fleet.

The emissions from our mobile fuel is slightly higher due to purchase of extra fuel in some areas to ensure all our tanks /bowsers remain full in preparation for EU Exit. However the emissions from the monitoring’s Boats is down due to one of the boats the Solent guardian being out of use for three months due to repairs.

Tonnes of carbon dioxide produced

2020 target is 30,876 tonnes

Quarter	Total
2014/15	35,635
2015/16	38,460
2016/17	34,470
2017/18	32,450
2018/19	30,930
Q1 19/20	8,529
Q2 19/20	14,019

Actions

Action(s)	Owner(s)	Deadline(s)
Managers to continue their focus on Travel and Subsistence and the application of the travel hierarchy to support continued reduction in travel emissions.	Executive Directors, Directors and Deputy Directors	Ongoing
Continue rollout of additional charge points to support increasing volume of electric and plug in hybrid vehicles in our fleet.	Deputy Director of Fleet	Ongoing

12. We have a diverse workforce

The proportion of our staff who are from a Black, Asian and minority ethnic background (BAME %)

Q2 Status	Q2 actual	Target	Forecast	Year end target
Red	4.3%	14%	Red	14%

There were 15 new BAME recruits this quarter out of a total of 264 new starters, which represents 5.7% of all external recruits, close to the mean value of 6.2% for the whole period beginning quarter one 2016/17. There was a small net increase in headcount from 455 in quarter one 2019/20 to 459, and the proportion of BAME employees in the Environment Agency remained at 4.3%; the 2016/20 target remains however at 14%.

The Environment Agency has a suite of initiatives underway to move us towards our aspirations. These include promoting more community / university focused outreach work, unconscious bias training for recruiting managers, development programmes and mentoring for BAME staff, reviews of exit interviews, an EDT ‘Race Action Plan’, a refreshed resourcing strategy with all vacancies now placed on the VERCIDA online portal, blind sifting of CVs in recruitment, the “increase the pace on race” events, a more engaged BAME network and more active communication on our ethnic diversity.

BAME staff as % of all staff

2020 target = 14%

Quarter	Total
Q2 2016/17	3.7%
Q3 2016/17	3.7%
Q4 2016/17	3.8%
Q1 2017/18	4.0%
Q2 2017/18	4.0%
Q3 2017/18	3.8%
Q4 2017/18	3.8%
Q1 2018/19	3.9%
Q2 2018/19	4.0%
Q3 2018/19	4.0%
Q4 2018/19	4.1%
Q1 2019/20	4.3%
Q2 2019/20	4.3%

The proportion of our executive managers who are female %

Q2 Status	Q2 actual	Target	Forecast	Year end target
Red	41%	50%	Red	50%

The percentage of female Executive Managers (EMs) is 41.1% (37), which is almost unchanged from the previous quarter one 2019/20 (41.1%), the headcount only having risen by one to 37 out of a total EM headcount of 90. This compares to a target of 50%. The equivalent figure for the UK Civil Service is 45.0%, which has increased from 38.7% in 2016. The percentage of female Grade 7 employees has fallen slightly to 32% (153), resulting from the very slight decrease in headcount in the context of a rise in the overall Grade 7 headcount from 471 to 473; the percentage has changed little over the last six quarters. This compares to a target of 50% and an equivalent Civil Service Grade 6 figure of 45%.

Proportion of Executive Managers (EMs) who are female

2020 target = 50%

Quarter	Total
Q2 2016/17	36%
Q3 2016/17	34%
Q4 2016/17	37%
Q1 2017/18	38%
Q2 2017/18	37%
Q3 2017/18	35%
Q4 2017/18	34%
Q1 2018/19	34%
Q2 2018/19	34%
Q3 2018/19	34%
Q4 2018/19	35%
Q1 2019/20	41%
Q2 2019/20	41%

Actions

Action(s)	Owner(s)	Deadline(s)
Unconscious bias training for interview	Exec. Director FCRM	Ongoing
Development programmes and coaching for BAME staff	Legal Services	Ongoing
Development programmes and coaching for female staff	Legal Services	Ongoing
Active support for Brunel and associated engagement initiatives	All Executive Directors	Ongoing

13. We have the lowest possible lost time incident (LTI) frequency rate

Q2 Status	Q2 actual	Ceiling rate	Forecast	Year end target
Green	0.11	0.11	Green	0.11

Lost Time Incident Frequency Rate (LTIFR) is a universally accepted lagging indicator of health and safety performance. We define lost time incidents as work related injuries resulting in a day or more lost time. By using such a conservative definition, plus a very low ceiling of 0.11 injuries per 100,000 hours worked, this creates a very challenging aspiration for our overall Health Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) performance. The fact that we are usually close to this ceiling indicates that all the steps we have been undertaking to manage and further improve our HSW are delivering results in terms of reduced numbers of injuries to our people. In quarter two our rate remained the same as quarter one, which continues to represent a significant improvement on the previous year. These HSW improvements most recently include improvements in Field Operations teams specifically by refining the training, planning and managing of construction work. We have also reviewed incident response; induction training; and emphasis on near miss reporting and active monitoring, amongst many other things. We also continue to improve our processes for learning from LTIs and Safety Critical Incidents (SCIs), including a recently extending the range of incidents that our trained reviewers investigate.

Lost time incident frequency rate

12 month rolling average

Quarter	Number
July 2018	0.18
August 2018	0.17
September 2018	0.16
October 2018	0.16
November 2018	0.13
December 2018	0.13
January 2019	0.14
February 2019	0.13
March 2019	0.13
April 2019	0.12
May 2019	0.13
June 2019	0.11
July 2019	0.11
August 2019	0.10
September 2019	0.11

Number of LTIs

Quarter	Number
Q1 2016/17	4
Q2 2016/17	6
Q3 2016/17	5
Q4 2016/17	4
Q1 2017/18	7
Q2 2017/18	6
Q3 2017/18	13
Q4 2017/18	6
Q1 2018/19	6
Q2 2018/19	5
Q3 2018/19	6
Q4 2018/19	6
Q1 2019/20	5
Q2 2019/20	5

Actions

Action(s)	Owner(s)	Deadline(s)
Implement the Health, Safety and Wellbeing plan for 2019/20	Executive Director of Operations	Q4 19/20