Councillor Pensions

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Do any of the Councillors receive any kind of pension from the city council?

If so, is this all the councillors or can you provide a list please?

Is the pension (if there is one) included in their annual allowance?

Yours faithfully,

Maria Hardwick

Westminster City Council

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Do any of the Councillors receive any kind of pension from the city
council?

If so, is this all the councillors or can you provide a list
please?

Is the pension (if there is one) included in their annual
allowance?

FOI Reference Number: 4305
Target Completion Date: 28/09/2009

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David Boothroyd left an annotation ()

General Purposes committee recommended in 2003 (http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/csu/Gener...), and the council has subsequently decided, that councillors could not join the Local Government Pension Scheme. The Councillors Allowances scheme says so explicitly - this is the current version: http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/newcsu/Co...

So far as I know no element of the councillors' allowance is intended as a pension contribution.

Maria Hardwick left an annotation ()

Thank you for that information David. I can now close this FOI request, as I needn't trouble the FOI team with this.