In a large number of cases, copies of the expense forms which are supposed to accompany the figures are also missing.
The figures for councillor salaries are interesting. Carmarthenshire has 74 councillors, and collectively they cost us £759,000 in basic salary in 2012-13. Nothing very surprising about that, perhaps, but senior salaries (i.e. members of the Executive Board, chairs of committees, etc.) cost us an eye watering £431,000 on top of that.
2012-13 was an unusual year, partly because of the council elections and partly because there were very few meetings for four of the months covered by the period. Despite that, travel expenses for the year totalled £43,361, which was slightly up on the previous year (£42,300).
A trawl through the database shows huge variations in claims, from zero to more than £2,500, with ten councillors (13% of the total) accounting for 36% of total claims.
Here are the top five:
1. Jane Tremlett (Ind) | £2,564 |
2. Tom Theophilus (Ind) | £2,130 |
3. Colin Evans (Lab) | £1,746 |
4. Anthony Jones (Lab) | £1,569 |
5. Ivor Jackson (Ind) | £1,504 |
That other Independent stalwart, Dai 'Trelech' Thomas, was not far behind at £1,082.
Together Labour and the Independents accounted for 8 out of the 10 top claimers.
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