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Dear Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council,

Given that there will have to be drastic cuts to services as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic please state:-

1) The number of Officers Officers employed by the Council on 1st April, 2011 and on 1st April, 2021.

2) How many officers are part of a Shared Service?

3) With which Councils are they shared?

4) Who is the paymaster?

5) Is the salary shared equally with the other Councils and if not how is it apportioned?

Yours faithfully,

Fergus Wilson

foi, Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council

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Dear foi,

Can I give you a reminder?

Yours sincerely,

Fergus Wilson

Mathew Brooks, Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council

To Fergus Wilson

 

Please see the Council’s response to your FOI request below:

 

1) The number of Officers employed by the Council on 1st April, 2011 and
on 1st April, 2021.

1 April 2021 = 413, 1 April 2021 = 250

2) How many officers are part of a Shared Service?

5

3) With which Councils are they shared?

               Sevenoaks District Council

4) Who is the paymaster?

               Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council (TMBC) pays the members
of staff within the Building Control Service that it directly employs.

5) Is the salary shared equally with the other Councils and if not how is
it apportioned?

Staff within the Building Control shared service are directly employed
either by TMBC or Sevenoaks District Council. Salaries are paid by the
Council directly employing the staff member.

 

If you are dissatisfied with this response, then you may ask the Council
to conduct an internal review of your case by writing to the Council’s FOI
Team ([1][Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council request email]). If you are still not content after the Council
has conducted an internal review of your case, then you may apply directly
to the Information Commissioner (ICO) for a decision. Generally, the ICO
cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the internal review
procedure provided by the Borough Council.

 

The Information Commissioner can be contacted in writing at: The
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Please quote the reference number at the top of this email in any future
correspondence about this request.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Mathew Brooks

Senior HR Adviser

Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council

 

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