truman Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 There's no reason why any councillor should pay their own expenses, but you'd imagine that a transparent system of end-of-month returns like everyone else is used to would do just fine. Do they really get free parking and bus travel whether on council business or not? Surely not, they would have to declare that on their tax return as a benefit in kind. It's what's reported in the article in the OP.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biotechpete Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Do we need 3 councellors to each ward now that the council have given most of the work to private contractors ie Roads, Bins and cleaning and housing repairs? Take your point, but I wonder what day to day involvement the councillors would have had with these services even when under authority control. As it turns out, on a per capita basis we get pretty good 'value' form our councillors. City /Population /Councillors /People per Councillor Sheffield /551,800 /84 /6569 Manchester /441,184 /96 /4596 Bristol /398,276 /70 /5690 Birmingham /1,001,185 /120 /8343 *data for other city populations are from here http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/publications/working/2008-06.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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