I always had a little sympathy for John Major as he approached the end of his tenure as PM – every time he picked up the morning papers he must have thought “what have the idiots who work for me got up to this time?”. I am sure that Irene Lucas, Chief Executive of South Tyneside Council, some how feels the same every time the Shields Gazette is dropped onto her desk. Missing ballot boxes and papers, evidence of polling irregularities, errant Councillors, budget deficits, an inquiring public, committee boycotts and a plethora of lunatics loose in the asylum. Can it get any worse?
Clearly it can, as today’s Gazette reveals some remarkable figures on the levels of expenditure for Borough middle and senior managers. The Tax Payers Alliance (http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/, an excellent site for information on how Councils and government spend our money) has revealed the following figures for South Tyneside Borough;
NUMBER OF STAFF WITH REMUNERATION PACKAGES ABOVE £50000
1996 – 1997 – 1
2001 – 2002 – 8
2006 – 2007 – 80
TOTAL COST
1996 – 1997 – £55,000
2001 – 2002 – £510,000
2006 – 2007 –£4,940,000
POPULATION ALL AGES
MID 2006 – 151,000
COST PER PERSON – £32.72
In 10 years the number of managers on over £50,000 has gone from 1 to 80. Over the same period the costs involved have gone from £50,000 to just under £5 million. So that’s £32.72 per head the public pay to only 80 people in the Borough. Now there’s a club we would all want to be a member off!
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Council39s-5m-bill-for-middle.3741182.jp
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