Well
only one in 10 council planning departments are fully staffed, with 13% operating with fewer than three-quarters of posts filled
with
80% [of local authorities] reporting they did not have enough officers to carry out their workload
because
long-term cuts to funding have had a visible impact on planning departments’ ability to retain staff... there has been a 43% fall in resources to the planning system from local authorities since 2009-10.
£10.6 billion to the UK government in North Sea revenue for 22/23 v. £2.6 billion for 21/22.
Equinor (Rosebank majority owner) revenues for 22: $75 billion
Ithaca (Rosebank minority owner) revenues for 22: $1.9 billion
BP (formerly state-owned; majority privatisation under Thatcher, from 1979) revenues for 22: $241 billion, for record profit of $28 billion (£23 billion)