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Tunbridge Wells, Transparency on Spend
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council has now made it even easier to
see where the Council spends tax payers money with a dedicated
transparency page.
The Council has for many years made public,
details of senior officer salaries within the published Statement
of Accounts and as part of the annual audit it has always been
possible for the public to request to see further information on
the various vouchers which support the figures. A public notice to
this effect is published in the local press every year and indeed
the press often come in and trail through the detailed
documents.
The Council also places a notice every year in
the local press so that the public can see how much in allowances
and expenses were paid to every member of the Council.
But to fully embrace the transparency agenda
of the coalition government the Council has placed all this
information on to a single page and teamed up with ‘Spotlight on
spend’ which has been praised by the Secretary of State for
Communities and Local Government as a way of making the information
easier to interpret. This is just the start and further publication
of financial information will follow.
Read the full article on the Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
website
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Spend data
Source: tunbridge.gov.uk
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