AUTHORITY 2004 /05 SUBSCRIPTION (£)
Unitary Authorities
Darlington £33,439.01
Hartlepool £30,125.85
Redcar and Cleveland £47,613.87
Middlesbrough £45,735.27
Stockton £61,378.85
218,292.84
Metropolitan Districts
Gateshead £65,136.04
Newcastle £88,908.82
North Tyneside £65,340.98
South Tyneside £52,020.03
Sunderland £95,296.05
366,701.91
Counties
Durham £84,075.70
Northumberland £52,651.92
136,727.62
Districts
Chester Le Street £9,102.65
Derwentside £14,533.50
Durham £14,977.53
Easington £16,002.22
Sedgefield £14,823,83
Teesdale £4,184.15
Wear Valley £10,451.82
Alnwick £5,362.54
Berwick £4,457.40
Blyth Valley £13,935.77
Castle Morpeth £8,368.29
Tynedale £10,110.26
Wansbeck £10,417.67
136,727.62
REGION 858,450.00
3 comments:
Neil,
Could you possibly help clarify a couple of points - are the subscriptions from each individual local authority designed to cover the costs of their individual representatives on the Assembly or does the funding all go into one big pot? Merely curious. Is there a criteria as to what your authority contributes (anything they can get away with?).
When Mr Barber offers the details of allowances awarded to Assembly members, where does the money for allowancs actually come from? Are these allowances covered by the £858,450.00 or from the overall budget, believed to be around £2.2million.
If a member can't drive and lives a "canny walk" from Newcastle, how are these costs covered? Might sound daft, but this is all public money - and I know of at least one who can't drive.
Hillbilly, Wear(d) Valley, Co. Durham
Awaiting clarification, and end of year accounts, from Mr. Barber.
As the unelected assembly is an 'unincorporated association' the members are about to find themmselves in a bit of a legal pickle.
Watch this space.
I think they'll be claiming some expenses from their own local authorities. That's what I was told by the council Finance Office here, a few years ago.
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