Councillors' expenses

You’ll find information about payments and reimbursements received by our councillors, together with costs associated with conferences and visits they have undertaken, from 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009, here.

All payments comply with current legislation, as well as council policies and procedures.

Councillors are listed in alphabetical order.

Download councillors' expenses (Excel – 93KB)

Please note that this spreadsheet is password protected and is available as a read-only Excel file. Click the 'read-only' button when prompted to view the information.

About our payments

Payments to councillors are split into three categories:

allowances
expenses for travelling to and from meetings
conferences and visits

Allowances

There are two kinds of allowances which councillors receive:

basic allowance – the amount, determined by law, which all councillors are entitled to
special responsibility allowance - the amount paid to councillors who have special responsibilities, for example, the chairmanship of a committee

These payments are gross amounts, prior to the deduction of income tax and national insurance contributions.

We also pay certain expenses to our councillors. They cover:

Expenses for travelling to and from meetings

This includes public transport costs or car allowances for travelling to and from approved duties such as committee meetings, working groups and outside bodies.

Conferences and visits

Details of any conferences or visits attended by each councillor include the following information:

date (the date the conference or visit began)
description (name and location of conference or visit)
conference fees
travel costs
subsistence (includes accommodation, meals and out of pocket expenses).

Payments associated with councillors attending conferences are made on the basis that their attendance has been approved by the relevant committee.