FOI Request - Councillors Wages and Expenses and Land Assets
Request 101003710003
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? Who signs off on these expenses?
4. 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?
5. Please can you confirm the land assets value that is owned by the council?
6. Please can you confirm the income that is generated by the land owned by the council in the last five years?
7. Please can you confirm how much land assets has been sold off in the last five years
Response 26-02-2025
1. The information requested is available in our annual accounts by making reference to the remuneration report, which can be found on our website. This information is therefore exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information otherwise accessible. For ease of reference please find a link to the web page here:
http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_44100.html
For Information contained in annual accounts prior to financial year 2018/19, please follow links:
2. Councillors wages are set nationally under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 (Remuneration) Regulations. These are sent to us each year from COSLA (Convention of Scottish Local Authorities).
3. The information on level of expenses can be found in the annual accounts, remuneration report - see 1.
Expenses are signed off by the Head of HR, ICT and Organisational Development.
4. This information is published and available on the Moray Council website and is therefore exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information otherwise accessible. For ease of reference please find a link to the web page here: http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_90017.html
5. Total value as at 31 March 2024 £498.732M, this does not include the Council’s Housing stock value.
6. The annual income generated from the Council’s industrial portfolio over the last 5 financial years is:
2019/2020 - £1,954,000
2020/2021 - £1,940,000
2021/2022 - £2,066,000
2022/2023 - £2,085,000
2023/2024 - £2,269,000
Please note this excludes income from any short-term hall, room or building let and also excludes income from the Council’s housing stock.
7. Moray Council have disposed of 70 buildings or land since January 2020.