1. Please can you confirm the cost of councillor’s wages for each of the last ten years?
Councillors do not receive wages, but an allowance. This information is already publicly available in the outturn reports on the Devon County Council website. The information for the financial year 2024/25 will be published in about May / June to the Cabinet meeting.
2. Please can you confirm the process of how these wages are calculated and the process for deciding the level of wages?
Councillors do not receive wages, but an allowance. The scheme is outlined in the Council’s Constitution. The Local Authorities (Members’ Allowances) Regulations 1991, outline that an Independent Panel should review Member Allowances and recommend a scheme to the Council. They report every February to the Procedures Committee, who review their findings, but ultimately it is a decision for the Council who make a decision at the budget meeting in February each year.
3. Please can you confirm the level of expenses paid to councillors in each of the last ten years? Who signs off on these expenses?
This information is also already available publicly in the Devon County Council outturn reports. The information for the financial year 2024/25 will be published around May / June to the Cabinet meeting. A manager within Democratic Services checks Member claims.
4. Please can you confirm the amount of expenses that have been claimed by council employees in the last five years please? A value for each year would be appreciated?
| 2019/20 | £ 1,263,353 |
| 2020/21 | £ 1,363,962 |
| 2021/22 | £ 1,732,934 |
| 2022/23 | £ 2,201,025 |
| 2923/24 | £ 2,446,781 |
5. Please can you confirm the land assets value that is owned by the council?
The value of land on 31 March 2024 was £102,016,246.
6. Please can you confirm the income that is generated by the land owned by the council in the last five years?
The summary total of disposals is £37,749,933.
7. Please can you confirm how much land assets has been sold off in the last five years?
The total area transferred is 1,350,159sqm.
742,849sqm of this was statutory transfers to academies, trust and church schools.