Hill & Smith PLC - Data
Operating company

Data

  2024 2023 2022 2021 2020

Product Research & Development

          
Spend on R&D £3.4m £3.3m £2.8m £1.9m £2.0m
Percentage of revenue 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3%

Environmental

          
Environmental penalties £nil £nil £nil £nil £nil
Carbon Disclosure Project (‘CDP’) Rating C B B D C
Group water usage (m3) 98,825 92,963 84,667 104,795 95,093
Solid waste to landfill (tonnes) 6,338 4,769 5,138 3,600 5,165
Recycled waste (tonnes) 21,664 22,385 20,761 13,755 19,145
Percentage of recycled waste 77% 82% 80% 79% 79%

Greenhouse gas emissions

          
Emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 1: UK (1) 16,041 17,060 17,518 18,362 17,689
Emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 1: Rest of World (1) 22,560 21,640 20,902 21,611 23,068
Location-based emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 2: UK (1) 3,063 3,201 3,072 3,896 3,849
Location-based emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 2: Rest of World (1) 10,995 10,705 10,234 10,668 10,486
Market-based emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 2: UK (1) 82 164 428 1,094 4,477
Market-based emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 2: Rest of World (1) 9,450 10,528 10,477 10,787 10,585
Intensity Ratio 0.06 0.06 0.07 0.09 0.10
Scope 3 (tCO2e) – Group(1) 1,016,734 862,259 1,007,641 n/a n/a
Other greenhouse gas emissions – CH4 (tCO2e) 67 64 61 66 63
Other greenhouse gas emissions – N2O (tCO2e) 137 155 156 165 157

Energy Consumption

          
Energy Consumption UK (kWh) 95,875,309 100,338,137 103,246,843 110,355,033 104,827,829
Energy Consumption Rest of World (kWh) 150,792,407 144,927,420 142,328,304 147,407,078 154,029,308
Energy Consumption Total (kWh) 246,667,716 245,265,557 245,575,147 257,762,111 258,857,137

Health & Safety

          
No. of workplace fatalities 0 0 0 0 0
No. of lost time injuries 30 35 85 142 109
LTIR 0.33 0.43 1.1 1.7 1.5
No. of near miss reports 990 1,969 2,217 2,126 955

Ethical conduct

          
Charitable donations £119,618 £98,985 £62,000 £39,000 £21,000
Whistleblowing reports made by employees 44 10 12 2 3
Modern Slavery audits carried out Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Talent & employment practices

          
No. of Group employees (as at 31 Dec) 4,559 4,336 3,817 4,402 4,398
Voluntary (Regrettable) attrition rate 18% 9% 14% 14% 6%
Percentage of employees with access to a recognisable Trade Union 3% 5% 11% 18% 18%
UK Gender Pay Gap (Median Pay Gap) -1.0% -0.1% 2.8% -4.5% 0.1%
Training spend £0.8m £0.9m £0.8m £0.6m £0.4m
Total No. of training days 5,285 5,799 5,626 4,119 4,000
UK Apprenticeships 66 60 55 49 34
Percentage of UK sites utilising the Apprenticeship Levy 89% 83% 89% 57% 49%
Employees participating in training & development 2,506 3,527 2,386 156 111
Percentage of employees participating in training &
development that are female		 8% 9% 10% 17% 10%

Engagement

          
Engagement Survey participation 83% 80% 80% 62% n/a
Engagement Score 56% 56% 61% 55% n/a
Inclusion Engagement Score 73% 73% 69% 63% n/a

gender diversity

                    
  M F M F M F M F M F
PLC Directors 5 3 5 2 5 3 5 3 5 2
Executive Committee 4 2 3 2 4 2 4 2 n/a n/a
No. of subsidiary directors 40 9 46 10 39 7 49 3 66 5
No. of senior leaders 100 28 109 26 78 20  201 38 174 39
Percentage of PLC Directors 62% 38% 71% 29% 62% 38%  62%  38%  71% 29% 
Percentage of Executive Board 67% 33% 60% 40% 67% 33% 67% 33%  n/a  n/a 
Percentage of Subsidiary Directors 82% 18% 82% 18% 85% 15% 94% 6% 93% 7%
Percentage of Senior Managers* 78% 22% 81% 19% 80% 20% 84% 16% 82% 18%
Total percentage of Group employees 89% 11% 89% 11% 90% 10% 90% 10% 90% 10%