Full details of the code can be found here Local Government Transparency Code 2015

Expenditure Exceeding £250 

Government Procurement Card transactions

The code requires that local authorities must publish details of every transaction on a Government Procurement Card.

Bursledon Parish Council does not use a Government Procurement Card and therefore has no information to publish. 

 

Procurement information

The code requires that local authorities must publish details of every invitation to tender for contracts to provide goods and/or services with a value that exceeds £5,000.
The code requires that local authorities must also publish details of any contract, commissioned activity, purchase order, framework agreement and any other legally enforceable agreement with a value that exceeds £5,000. 

Bursledon Parish Council has no tenders and contracts which fulfil this requirement.

 

Local Authority Land

The code requires that local authorities must publish details of all land and building assets including:

• All service and office properties occupied or controlled by user bodies, both freehold and leasehold
• Any properties occupied or run under Private Finance Initiative contracts
• Garages unless rented as part of a housing tenancy agreement
• Surplus, sublet or vacant properties
• Undeveloped land
• Serviced or temporary offices where contractual or actual occupation exceeds three months
• All future commitments, for example under an agreement to lease, from when the contractual commitment is made

Bursledon Parish Council publishes this information on its asset register, which is detailed below. This list is correct as at 31 March 2018. 

Asset Register Document 

 

Social Housing Assets 

The code requires that local authorities must publish details of the value of social housing stock that is held in their Housing Revenue Account.

Bursledon Parish Council does not hold and social housing stock and therefore has no information to publish.

 

Grants to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations

The code requires that local authorities must publish details of all grants to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. 

Bursledon Parish Council publishes this information as a separate list, as below.

 

 

Bursledon Parish Council welcomes and values the work of local voluntary groups and organisations. The Council has a policy for making grants to groups and organisations which contribute to the welfare of the community by improving or supporting activities/facilities. Applicants must be able to demonstrate a clear need for financial support.

A copy of the Grant Awarding Policy and an application form can be downloaded by clicking on the links below:

Organisational Chart

 

Trade Union Facility Time  

• The code requires that local authorities must publish the following information on trade union facility time: 
• Total number (absolute number and full time equivalent) of staff who are union representatives 
• Total number (absolute number and full time equivalent) of union representatives who devote at least 50 per cent of their time to union duties 
• Names of all trade union represented in the local authority 
• A basic estimate of spending on unions 
• A basic estimate of spending on unions as a percentage of the total pay bill 

Bursledon Parish Council has no staff members who are union representatives and therefore has no information to publish. 

Parking account

• The code requires that local authorities must publish on their website, or place a link on their website to this data if published elsewhere: 
• A breakdown of income and expenditure on the authority’s parking account, including details of revenue collected form on-street parking, off-street parking and Penalty Charge Notices 
• A breakdown of how the authority has spent a surplus on its parking account 

Bursledon Parish Council has no chargeable parking and therefore has no information to publish. 

 

Parking spaces

The code requires that local authorities must publish the number of marked out, controlled on and off-street parking spaces within their area, or an estimate of the number of spaces where controlled parking space is not marked out in individual parking bays or spaces. 

 Bursledon Council has no controlled parking spaces and therefore has no information to publish.

 

Senior salaries

• Local authorities are already required to publish, under the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015, the following information with regard to senior salaries: 
• The number of employees whose remuneration in that year was at least £50,000 in brackets of £5,000 
• Details of remuneration and job title of certain senior employees whose salary is at least £50,000 
• Employees whose salaries are £150,000 or more must also be identified by name 
• In addition to this requirement, local authorities must place a link on their website to these published data or place the data itself on their website, together with a list of responsibilities (for example, the services and functions they are responsible for, budget held and number of staff) and details of bonuses and ‘benefits-in-kind’, for all employees whose salary exceeds £50,000. 

Bursledon Parish Council has no staff member whose salary is £50,000 or greater and therefore has no information to publish. 

 

Constitution

• Local authorities are already required to make their constitution documents available for inspection at their offices under section 9P of the Local Government Act 2000. Local authorities must also, under the code, publish their constitution on their website.
• Bursledon Parish Council’s constitution is made up of the Standing Orders, Financial Regulations and Code of Conduct, which can be found by clicking on the links below. 

 

Pay multiple

The code requires that local authorities must publish the pay multiple on their website, defined as the ratio between the highest paid taxable earnings for the given year (including base salary, variable pay, bonuses, allowances and the cash value of any benefits-in-kind) and the median earnings figure of the whole of the authority’s workforce. The measure must:

• Cover all the elements of remuneration that can be valued
• Use the median earnings figure as the denominator, which should be that of all employees of the local authority on a fixed date each year, coinciding with reporting at the end of the financial year
• Exclude changes in pension benefits, which due to their variety and complexity cannot be accurately included in a pay multiple disclosure

Bursledon Parish Council’s pay multiple as at 1 April 2018 is 1.39 (2017 2.00)

Fraud

The code requires that local authorities must publish the following information about their counter fraud work:

Bursledon Parish Council has no staff members undertaking fraud investigation work and therefore has no information to publish.