Financial Information

Payments over £500

Yatton Parish Council publishes a list of all payments over £500. You can see:

  • a list of payments between April 2011 and March 2012 here.
  • a list of payments between April 2010 and March 2011 here.

Grants

You can see a list of grants made by Yatton Parish Council in the year ending 31 March 2012 here. Grants made in the previous year are listed in the Annual Report, here.

Staff costs

Total staff costs for each month are shown in the list of payments over £500 (above) and total annual staff costs are in the Annual Return (below).

The Clerk, the senior and highest-paid officer (employee) of the Parish Council, is paid according to the scales agreed between the National Association of Local Councils and the Society of Local Council Clerks. You can see the scales here. There has been no change to the scales since 1 April 2009.The Parish Council has agreed that the Clerk should be paid on Scale LC2, which is the scale appropriate to a large village or small town.

The salaries of other members of staff have been benchmarked by HR colleagues at North Somerset Council against similar posts in North Somerset Council.

The Goverment asks larger parish and town councils to publish a 'pay multiple' showing the relationship between the earnings of the highest paid employee (in Yatton Parish Council, the Clerk) and a figure representing the average of the earnings of all employees (technically the earnings of the median employee). For Yatton Parish Council the pay multiple for the year ended 31 March 2011 was 3:1, that is, the earnings of the Clerk were three times that of the median employee. The Clerk is the only full-time employee of the Parish Council.

Councillors' expenses

Parish councillors are unpaid and (apart from the Chairman) receive no allowance, although travel and subsistence expenses are reimbursed. You can see a copy of the scheme for reimbursing travel and subsistence expenses here. The Chairman can claim a small allowance for meeting his expenses as Chairman.

Statements of Accounts

The audit of the Parish Council's accounts for the year ended 31 March 2011 has been concluded. You can see a copy  of the audited Annual Return here. More detailed financial statements are here.

Financial Regulations

You can see a copy of the Council's Financial Regulations here.

If you have any questions about the Council's finances please contact us.