North Lanarkshire Update
I submitted the following FoI request to North Lanarkshire Council 10 days or so ago now, but even though officials must have this information to hand I am sure I'll have to wait the full 28 days laid down in the legislation before anyone responds.
Now thesis perfectly within the time limits laid down by Scotland's FoI regime although if you ask me, it says some thing public bodies who wait until the last minute to respond even though in this case the issues involved must have been discussed and approved by a Council committee.
So what's the big secret, why not just spill the beans?
North Lanarkshire Update (21/05/15)
Here's my latest FoI request to North Lanarkshire which focuses on the recent news that the Council's chief executive, Gavin Whitefield is to retire early at only 59 years young.
Now I think that lots of employees in North Lanarkshire would dearly love to retire early, but just why is it that the highly paid Council bigwigs always seem to be first in the queue?
Maybe I should ask another FoI question about how many low paid North Lanarkshire staff have been allowed to retire from their duties over the past 10 years.
I'll bet the answer is very few, if any at all.
Gavin Whitefield
Chief Executive
North Lanarkshire Council
BY E-MAIL TO: whitefieldg@northlan.gov.uk
Dear Mr Whitefield
FOISA Request
I would like to make the following request under the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002.
1 Please confirm the financial elements of the early retirement package under which the current chief executive will leave North Lanarkshire Councll later this year?
2 Please confirm whether any extra years have been added to the CEO's early retirement package and the additional costs, if any, involved?
3 Please confirm how any decision to add extra years was approved within the Council and the grounds for reaching this decision?
I look forward to your reply and would be grateful if you could respond to me by e-mail to: markirvine@compuserve.com
Kind regards
Mark Irvine
