Hill & Smith PLC - Data
Operating company

Data

  2023 2022 2021 2020 2019

Product Research & Development

          
Spend on R&D £3.3m £2.8m £1.9m £2.0m £1.4m
Percentage of revenue 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2%

Environmental

          
Environmental penalties £nil £nil £nil £nil £nil
Carbon Disclosure Project (‘CDP’) Rating B B D C D
Group water usage (m3) 92,963 84,667 104,795 95,093 91,152
Solid waste to landfill (tonnes) 4,769 5,138 3,600 5,165 4,678
Recycled waste (tonnes) 22,385 18,870 13,755 19,145 22,514
Percentage of recycled waste 82% 78% 79% 83% 85%

Greenhouse gas emissions

          
Emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 1: UK (1) 16,074 16,074 18,322 17,653 n/a
Emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 1: Rest of World (1) 20,591 15,782 18,824 20,278 n/a
Location-based emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 2: UK (1) 3,165 3,066 3,867 3,818 n/a
Location-based emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 2: Rest of World (1) 10,074 8,317 8,652 8,496 n/a
Market-based emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 2: UK (1) 164 428 1,054 4,441 n/a
Market-based emissions (tCO2e) - Scope 2: Rest of World (1) 9,837 8,315 8,624 8,466 n/a
Intensity Ratio 0.06 0.07 0.09 0.10 0.11
Scope 3 (tCO2e) – Group(1) 830,732 1,264,512 n/a n/a n/a
Other Greenhouse gas emissions – CH4 (tCO2e) 65 65 87 81 n/a
Other Greenhouse gas emissions – N2O (tCO2e) 144 114 213 194 n/a

Energy Consumption

          
Energy Consumption UK (kWh) 93,797,826 105,589,838 n/a n/a n/a
Energy Consumption Rest of World (kWh) 147,333,308 118,499,128 n/a n/a n/a
Energy Consumption Total (kWh) 241,131,134 224,088,966 329,447,183 318,527,334 330,041,768

Health & Safety

          
No. of workplace fatalities 0 0 0 0 0
No. of lost time injuries 35 85 142 109 119
Lost time injury rate ('LTIR') (The number of lost time injuries divided by total hours worked multiplied by 100,000) 0.43 1.1 1.7 1.5 1.6
No. of Near Miss Reports 1,969 2,217 2,126 955 n/a

Ethical conduct

          
Charitable donations £98,985 £62,000 £39,000 £21,000 £39,000
Whistleblowing reports made by employees 10 12 2 3 19
Modern Slavery audits carried out Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Talent & employment practices

          
No. of Group employees (as at 31 Dec) 4,336 3,817 4,402 4,398 4,591
Voluntary (Regrettable) attrition rate 9% 14% 14% 6% n/a
Percentage of employees with access to a recognisable Trade Union 5% 11% 18% 18% n/a
UK Gender Pay Gap (Median Pay Gap) -0.1% 2.8% -4.5% 0.1% -3.2%
Training spend £0.9m £0.8m £0.6m £0.4m n/a
Total No. of training days 5,799 5,626 4,119 4,000 n/a
UK Apprenticeships 60 52 49 34 n/a
Percentage of UK sites utilising the Apprenticeship Levy 83% 89% 57% 49% n/a
Employees participating in training & development 3,527 2,386 156 111 n/a
Percentage of employees participating in training &
development that are female		 9% 10% 17% 10% n/a

Engagement

          
Engagement Survey participation 80% 80% 62% n/a 56%
Engagement Score 56% 61% 55% n/a 48%
Inclusion Engagement Score 73% 69% 63% n/a 58%

gender diversity

                    
  M F M F M F M F M F
PLC Directors 5 2 5 3 5 3 5 2 5 2
Executive Board 3 2 4 2 4 2 n/a n/a n/a n/a
No. of Subsidiary Directors 46 10 39 7 49 3 66 5 79 3
No. of Senior Managers* 109 26 78 20 201 38  174 39 221 40
Percentage of PLC Directors 71% 29% 62% 38% 62% 38%  71%  29%  71% 29% 
Percentage of Executive Board 60% 40% 67% 33% 67% 33% n/a  n/a  n/a  n/a 
Percentage of Subsidiary Directors 82% 18% 85% 15% 94% 6% 93% 7% 96% 4%
Percentage of Senior Managers* 81% 19% 80% 20% 84% 16% 82% 18% 85% 15%
Total percentage of Group employees 89% 11% 90% 10% 90% 10% 90% 10% 91% 9%