NLC Update



Here's North Lanarkshire Council's response to an FOI request I submitted back in December 2014.

The response shows that the Council's chief executive was paid a performance bonus on top of his basic salary every year worth £113,543.74 between 2002/03 and 2013/14.

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)



Annual Salary
PRP 
2013/2014
£137,807.00 
£11,395.26 
2012/2013
£136,848.00 
£11,039.20 
2011/2012
£136,848.00 
£11,919.18 
2010/2011
£136,848.00 
£12,050.16 
2009/2010
£136,848.00 
£12,268.80 
2008/2009
£133,509.00 
£11,969.28 
2007/2008
£130,254.00 
£11,435.10 
2006/2007
£127,077.00 
£10,444.72 
2005/2006
£123,978.00 
£10,721.04 
2004/2005
£120,426.00 
£10,301.00 


(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.

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