Transparency data

EA executive directors and board expenses 2023 to 2024

Updated 28 January 2025

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The Environment Agency provides flood risk management, environmental regulation and other environmental services across England. The majority of staff are based in local offices close to where they provide services. Our main National Office is in Bristol, with a further office in London.

The nature of the work of the Chair, Chief Executive and Executive Directors requires a significant degree of travel in England. This includes early starts and late finishes necessitating overnight stays. So that the Environment Agency can remain effectively networked with environmental regulators in other countries, some foreign travel is required. This report reflects expenses which were paid by the Environment Agency and does not include travel paid for by external partners.

To minimise carbon emissions, travel in the UK is mostly undertaken using public transport. Best value is used both for travel and for hotel accommodation through the Environment Agency and cross-government procurement contracts.

Director or Board Member UK accommodation and subsistence (£) Total travel inc mileage and UK travel (£)[footnote 1] Foreign accommodation and subsistence (£) Foreign travel (£) Total (£)
Alan Lovell – Chair 2,361.72 4,775.77 0 0 7,137.49
James Bevan [footnote 2] – Chief Executive 186.57 0 0 0 186.57
Philip Duffy [footnote 3] – Chief Executive 1,837.79 3,962.90 0 0 5,800.69
John Curtin [footnote 4] - Executive Director Local Operations / Interim Chief Executive 1,362.11 1,226.09 822.44 0 3,410.64
Lucy Hunt [footnote 5] – Chief Operating Officer 826.42 938.63 0 0 1,765.05
Sarah Chare [footnote 6] - Interim Chief Operating Officer and Interim / Executive Director for Local Operations 389.80 900.30 0 0 1,290.10
John Leyland - Executive Director of Environment and Business 4,750.87 5,933.80 0 0 10,684.67
Caroline Douglass - Executive Director of Flood and Costal Risk Management 1,530.53 2,593.90 424.34 49.67 4,598.44
Tamara Bruck [footnote 7] - Executive Director for Strategy, Transformation and Assurance 175.00 637.90 0 0 812.90
9 Board members (not included above) 7,068.05 11,429.00 0 0 8,497.05
Totals 20,488.86 32,398.29 1,246.78 49.67 54,183.60

  1. Excludes lease car mileage. ↩

  2. James Bevan left the organisation in March 2023. ↩

  3. Philip Duffy joined the organisation on the 1 July 2023. ↩

  4. John Curtin was Interim Chief Executive from 1 April 2023 to 30 June 2023. ↩

  5. Lucy Hunt left the organisation on the 10 August 2023. ↩

  6. Sarah Chare was Interim Executive Director for Local Operations 1 April 2023 to 31 July 2023 and 14 November 2023 to 31 March 2024 and Interim Chief Operating Officer 1 August 2023 to 13 November 2023. ↩

  7. Tamara Bruck joined the organisation on 4 March 2023. ↩

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