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Record Ref : FOI 11188
Date Received : 29/01/2025
Date Completed : 25/02/2025
Organisation : Private Individual
Application Type : Private Individual
Category : Expenditure, Budgets and Income
Question

1. Please can you confirm the cost of councillor's wages for each of the last ten years? 2. Please can you confirm the process of how these wages are calculated and the process for deciding the level of wages? 3. Please can you confirm the level of expenses paid to councillors in each of the last ten years? 4. Who signs off on these expenses? 5. Please can you confirm the amount of expenses that have been claimed by council employees in the last five years please? A value for each year would be appreciated? 6. Please can you confirm the land assets value that is owned by the council? 7. Please can you confirm the income that is generated by the land owned by the council in the last five years? 8. Please can you confirm how much land assets has been sold off in the last five years

Answer

1. 2014/15 £718,627.77 2015/16 £711,764.58 2016/17 £720,099.64 2017/18 £698,281.75 2018/19 £745,438.04 2019/20 £770,944.11 2020/21 £766,334.96 2021/22 £772,351.84 2022/23 £828,787.46 2023/24 £883,854.19 2. The Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales produces an Annual Report, which sets out the type and levels of payments that authorities may or must make available to their members and co-opted members. They also require councils to publish the scope and amounts of these salaries and allowances for their particular authority. This is a link to the MTCBC website where we publish these allowances. 3. 2014/15 - 2015/16 498.00 2016/17 - 2017/18 270.00 2018/19 290.70 2019/20 201.05 2020/21 184.00 2021/22 183.42 2022/23 - 2023/24 222.41 4. Democratic Services 5. 2019/20 £271,631.24 2020/21 £142,137.81 2021/22 £147,446.96 2022/23 £178,808.91 2023/24 £198,643.39 6. £36,560,483.00 7. Income from land in last 5 years is £521,997.65, income made from car parks: 2019/20 358,347.63 2020/21 125,594.24 2021/22 233,624.27 2022/23 312,778.84 2023/24 327,363.44 8. 109 parcels of land have been sold in the last 5 years