Northamptonshire County Council
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Freedom of Information
Matthew Peleszok
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Our ref:
FR7946
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Your ref:
Date:
8th February 2018
Dear Mr Peleszok,
Information Request: FR7946
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 3rd February 2018which was received by
us on 5th February 2018. Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act
and is detailed below in italics with our response in bold.
(Please note the extract below has been taken directly from your original information request and
is unedited).
Can I please request a breakdown of all allowances/ payments made to Cllr Allan Matthews since
first elected.
A breakdown of his attendance record for council meetings and committees he sits on.
Also any voting records for council decisions at full council or committee level.
Clarification received for Q3
I am requesting information for all formal votes that have taken place at council level that Cllr
Matthews has either voted for or against or abstained from.
I.e. for option 4 on the libraries closures how did Cllr Matthews vote?
I woukd like to see how he represents his local electorates interests.
Our Response
The Freedom of Information Team has been provided with the following information in response to
your recent request on behalf of Northamptonshire County Council (NCC).
1)
Please find attached a breakdown of allowances paid to all councillors from April
2013 to March 2017. Cllr Matthews was elected in May 2013 and his data is included in these
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documents. For the current year, I can advise that he has received £11050.30 in allowance
payments (basic plus special responsibility allowance as a member of the
adoption/fostering panel and has claimed £813.67 in expenses.)
2)
Please find attached a breakdown of attendance for all councillors for the period in
question. The current year is not complete but I have updated Cllr Matthews’ attendance
figures. The committees of which he is a member are shaded white. The committees of
which he is not a member are shaded grey.
3)
Individual votes are not usually recorded at meetings. The exception is council
meetings where a recorded vote is either requested by the requisite number of councillors
or is required by law. I have attached minutes of each of the meetings at which recorded
votes have been taken over the period requested. The record of votes is appended to the
minutes in each case.
The information supplied is provided for private use, such as non-commercial research purposes,
and news reporting. Any other type of re-use will require the permission of the copyright owner
under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.
If you are unhappy with the response, you can ask the Council to review it. To do this please write
to the address below:
Mr Simon Deacon
Reviewing Officer
Northamptonshire County Council
One Angel Square
Angel Street
Northampton
NN1 1ED
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If our internal review does not resolve the issue to your complete satisfaction, you have the right to
apply to the information Commissioner for a decision at the following address:
Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Or, if you have any complaints in respect of your information request please complete the on-line
comments form that can be found at
www.northamptonshire.gov.uk, along with a full set of
guidance.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information/Data Protection Team
Business Intelligence and Project Management
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