TRANSPARENCY - DETAILS OF PAYMENTS

Senior Management Pay

We believe transparency is a key condition and driver for the delivery of our services. As a publicly funded organisation, we have a duty to our residents to be transparent in our business operations and outcomes.  The links below provide information which outlines the salaries and responsibilities for the senior management team.

Senior Management Pay at 1st October 2010 (Excel format) (28KB)

Senior Management Pay at 1st October 2010 (PDF format)  (40KB)

Senior Management Travel Expenses 2010

This information can be found in the Councils Statement of Accounts 2009/10  (please scroll to pages 26 and 27)

Staff Pay and Allowances

Details of pay scales, holiday entitlement, sickness payments, Employee Local Government Pension rates and subsistence allowances can be found by clicking on the following link.

HBC Key Terms & Conditions

Payments to Suppliers

We are open about the suppliers that we use to provide the goods and services without which the Council could not operate. Our suppliers can be limited companies, other local authorities, government departments, community organisations, small businesses or the self-employed.

Although this information was previously available to the public on request, all Councils are now encouraged by the Government to publish whatever supplier payment information they can, at the minimum cost. Later this year the Government will issue national payments disclosure guidance and Councils will re-consider their publication arrangements based on the guidance.

The documents below list the total payments over £500 made to each supplier during the financial year from April 2009 - March 2010.  We have now begun to also post lists of payments on a monthly basis from September 2010.

Explanatory notes

We have included payments that we have made to each supplier.

We make payments once a week but also have the facility to make urgent payments at any time. If more than one invoice is due to be paid for a single supplier, our computer system will combine them into one payment, in order to minimise the Council’s administrative costs (including our bank charges).  Payments can be made direct to bank accounts or by cheque. 

The listing only includes payments that the Council has made which relate to the purchase of goods and services. This means that the lists do not include:

• payments to employees (eg salaries or the reimbursement of business related costs)
• housing benefit payments or refunds (eg for overpaid council tax or business rates)
• refunds of income
• investments that we have made
• minor purchases e.g. petty cash expenditure

Yearly analysis of payments

Below is the information for the year ended 31 March 2010 in two different formats. We understand that some people and organisations would like to analyse our payments information in depth. For this reason we are making available year to date payments information in excel format which can be easily read in a variety of applications or saved in CSV format for use in other applications.  The information is also shown in PDF format. The supplies have been categorised using the Proclass categorisations where possible.

Payments to suppliers 2009 - 2010 (Excel format) (118KB)

Payments to suppliers 2009 - 2010 (PDF format)  (928KB)

Monthly lists of payments

Monthly payments to suppliers from September 2010 to March 2012 (Excel format) (75KB)

Monthly payments to suppliers from September 2010 to March 2012 (PDF format) (81KB)

Contract Details

List of Contract Details

Further information

The data above is available to reuse under the Open Government Licence for public sector information.

Further information is available on this site about Selling to the Council and the Council's procurement policies.  For procurement queries please contact:-

Telephone: (023) 9244 6396 in office hours (9.00am – 5.00pm, Monday – Friday)

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