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Corporate Performance Report 2024 to 2025

Purpose and recommendations

This report is the end of year corporate performance report for 2024/25.

The Agency Board is asked to:

1. Note the Agency’s performance against the 12 measures set out in the Annual Operating Plan 2024/25, 11 of which have been achieved and one partially achieved.
2. Note that information in this report will be included in the 2024/25 Annual Report and Accounts.
3. Agree the change in trajectory for performance measure four, proportion of developments approved in accordance with SEPA’s advice on flood risk, from increasing to maintaining.

Read the corporate performance report (Word, 1.3 MB)

1. Introduction

1.1 This report is the end of year corporate performance report for 2024/25. At the end of each quarter, we produce a report to describe our progress towards achieving the 12 measures set out in the Annual Operating Plan 2024/25. The attached report summarises our performance over the whole year. 

2. Overview

2.1 This is the end of year corporate performance report and performance has been assessed as either “achieved”, “partially achieved” or “not achieved”.

2.2 From April 2024 to March 2025, we have achieved 11 performance measures, and one has been partially achieved.

2.3 We are partially achieving the measure of annual reports of greenhouse gas emission by SEPA. Overall, our 2024/25 direct emissions have shown a slight reduction from our 2022/23 baseline. While we have seen a significant reduction in emissions from our workspaces, this has been offset by an increase in those from travel as our survey vessel, the Sir John Murray (SJM), has returned to operational capacity. We still consider our Net Zero Routemap target to reduce emissions from these sources by 15% by 31 March 2026 to be appropriate.

2.4 We propose to change the trajectory of measure four, proportion of developments approved in accordance with SEPA’s advice on flood risk, from increasing to maintaining. This is because it was set to increasing against a performance of 99% in 2023/24 in error and should have been set to maintaining. As part of the Performance Management Framework going into 2025/26, it will be set to maintaining.

2.5 As required, we have followed the principles for performance reporting set out in the Scottish Government Framework Agreement for SEPA (2024) and the Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM). We have kept this performance report concise and factual and have detailed progress over the year.

3. Recommendations

3.1 The Agency Board is asked to:

1. Note the Agency’s performance against the 12 measures set out in the Annual Operating Plan 2024/25, 11 of which have been achieved and one partially achieved.
2. Note that information in this report will be included in the 2024/25 Annual Report and Accounts. With the Annual Report and Accounts having a wider context and different audience, it is anticipated that some of the language used in this report will vary slightly, however the key messaging and status of the performance measure will remain the same.
3. Agree the change in trajectory for performance measure four, proportion of developments approved in accordance with SEPA’s advice on flood risk, from increasing to maintaining.