Leicester City Council Trade Union Facility Time 2020/21

Leicester City Council's dataset details staff time allocated to trade union duties for the 2020/21 financial year. It is published annually as part of the UK government's Transparency Code. The data provides a record of facility time, which is paid time off granted to union representatives for their official duties.

Use Cases

• Analyzing public sector expenditure on trade union facility time based on reported staff time.
• Benchmarking facility time commitments across different local authorities based on annual publication.
• Monitoring compliance with the UK Transparency Code for public sector bodies.
• Tracking annual trends in trade union activity within a specific local government organization.

Strengths

• Published by a specific local government authority, Leicester City Council.
• Part of a mandated annual publication cycle under the UK Transparency Code.
• Available in multiple open formats including CSV, JSON, and spreadsheet.

Limitations

• No column names or detailed schema are provided, limiting understanding of the data's granularity.
• Metadata for size, row count, license, and author is consistently missing across all platform entries.
• The temporal coverage is limited to a single fiscal year (2020/21) based on the title.

Provenance

Source

Leicester City Council

Collection Method

Likely an administrative record compiled for Transparency Code compliance.

Time Range

2020/21 financial year.

Freshness

Last updated metadata dates: 2026-06-17.

Geography

Leicester, United Kingdom.