This is an information request relating to council officers being given permission to work from outside the United Kingdom. By the United Kingdom, I refer to Northern Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland, not including the crown dependencies. Please include the following information for the following financial years, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24. If possible, for each employee given permission, please provide their pay band, and the country which they were provided permission to work from.

1. The number of employees currently with permission to work outside of the United Kingdom
5 employees.

2. The number of employees who were given permission to work outside of the United Kingdom in the 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 financial years
2020/21: There was 1 Wokingham Borough Council staff member who had permission to work outside of the United Kingdom.
2021/22: There were 2 Wokingham Borough Council staff members who have permission to work outside of the United Kingdom.
2022/23: There were 4 Wokingham Borough Council staff members who have permission to work outside of the United Kingdom.
2023/24: There are 5 Wokingham Borough Council staff members who have permission to work outside of the United Kingdom.

Employee 1, Europe, NLGC79 – NL40 £32020 - £46549
Employee 2, Asia, NLG11 – NL52 £53,700 - £58,855
Employee 3, Europe, NLG6 – NL22 £27,344 - £31,099
Employee 4, Europe, Agency worker N/A
Employee 5, Europe, NSM4 – NL89 £84,265 - £88,936

Our IT service have advised that supplying the Country could cause issues around our Cyber Security. If Countries were to be supplied, it may hinder our detection software from picking up threats as activity might be seen as the workers from those countries, and malicious attempts may try and mimic workers usage to circumnavigate our software detection. As a compromise we have supplied continent.