Councillors Allowances
Dear Devon County Council,
For the financial year 2022/23 please advise:
The total cost of basic allowances paid to Councillors;
The total cost of Special Responsibility Allowances paid to Councillors’
The total cost of Travel and Subsistence allowances paid to Councillors;
The amount of Special Responsibility Allowance paid to the Leader of the Council;
The amount paid to all Councillors as a Basic Allowance;
The number of Councillors in receipt of a Special Responsibility Allowance;
Yours faithfully,
phil spring
Dear Phil Spring
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Dear Phil Spring,
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Dear access to information - mailbox,
Thank you for your response.
You provided a link to your response.
On accessing this I received a 404 message saying the page could not be found.
Please send the information directly to me or give me another link.
Yours sincerely,
phil spring
Dear Phil Spring,
Apologies that the link included within your Freedom of Information response did not work.
The response is published here https://www.devon.gov.uk/accesstoinforma... on public webpages.
Within that response is a link to this document https://democracy.devon.gov.uk/documents... which is also published, publicly.
I hope you can now access these pages/documents.
Regards
Access to Information Team
01392 380100
Room 170, County Hall, Exeter, Devon, EX2 4QD
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