NLC Update
Here's North Lanarkshire Council's response to an FOI request I submitted back in December 2014.
During the same period the chief executive's basic salary increased from £120,426 to £137,807 as a result of annual pay - a rise of £17,381 or 14.4%.
And as regular readers know, the council's chief executive received another whopping pay rise on 1 April 2002 which took his basic salary from £105,777 to £119,480 - another big increase of 13%.
All I can say is that I wish North Lanarkshire Council's chief officials spent as much time and energy on the rest of the workforce as they did looking after their own high salaries.
Dear Mr. Irvine,
Request for Information
I refer again to your e-mail of 18 December 2014 seeking information in relation to salary and performance related pay.
In the first instance, I should acknowledge that this response falls outwith the statutory deadline outlined in the Freedom of Information legislation – and for this I apologise.
Returning to your request and having investigated, my response to your queries numbered (1) to (5) is as follows:-
(1) and (2)
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(3)
2002-2003 31
2003-2004 30
2004-2005 34
2005-2006 34
2006-2007 33
2007-2008 28
2008-2009 28
2009-2010 30
2010-2011 30
2011-2012 31
2012-2013 27
2013-2014 27
(4) and (5)
I regret to advise you that the information sought for these parts of your enquiry constitutes personal data in respect of which disclosure would contravene the Data Protection principles and that this constitutes a ground of absolute exemption in terms of Section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. In coming to this conclusion, I have had particular regard of the decision of the Scottish Information Commissioner No. 041/2012 in the case of Mr. Paul Hutcheon of the Sunday Herald and North Lanarkshire Council which held that disclosure of information relative to objectives and targets for performance related pay was exempt under Section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. For ease of reference the link to this decision is undernoted below.