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Subject: Interim salaries

Reference: WBC-FOI-00315

1. Has your organisation hired an interim chief-executive officer(s) in the past five years (from now up until January 2018)? If this is the case, please provide their names and the dates they held the position for (if more than one interim CEOs have been in place over the past five years, please give the dates both held the position? If an interim CEO is currently in place, please make this clear.

2. For each interim-CEO who was in place, please provide their pay (before tax). Ideally, this will be given as a daily rate - however, if this is not achievable, please provide a monthly salary or an annual one. Please include any bonuses awarded to the individual(s) during their employment. If an interim-CEO is currently in place, please provide the number of months they are expected to serve and how many of these have been served so far. If their pay changed over their term, please clarify when and how it was altered.

3. Please provide the salary of the current chief executive (full-time not interim). If an interim-CEO is currently in place, please provide the annual salary of the most recent permanent CEO and the dates they were in the position for. As above, please provide any bonuses awarded to the CEO in this period. If the individual's salary changed over the five year term, please make this clear.

Response

Full Disclosure - 4 January 2023

Request for Information - WBC-FOI-00315 - Interim salaries

I refer to your request for information received on 03 January 2023. Please see the information below in response to your request: -

Your Request:

1. Has your organisation hired an interim chief-executive officer(s) in the past five years (from now up until January 2018)? If this is the case, please provide their names and the dates they held the position for (if more than one interim CEOs have been in place over the past five years, please give the dates both held the position? If an interim CEO is currently in place, please make this clear.

2. For each interim-CEO who was in place, please provide their pay (before tax). Ideally, this will be given as a daily rate - however, if this is not achievable, please provide a monthly salary or an annual one. Please include any bonuses awarded to the individual(s) during their employment. If an interim-CEO is currently in place, please provide the number of months they are expected to serve and how many of these have been served so far. If their pay changed over their term, please clarify when and how it was altered.

3. Please provide the salary of the current chief executive (full-time not interim). If an interim-CEO is currently in place, please provide the annual salary of the most recent permanent CEO and the dates they were in the position for. As above, please provide any bonuses awarded to the CEO in this period. If the individual's salary changed over the five year term, please make this clear.

Our Response:

From March 2021 Mr Mark Maidment took on the role of Chief Executive Officer on the understanding that at a future date, to be set by the Council, an external process would identify a permanent appointment. He was until that point the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Resources. In so far as there was an understanding that there was to be a campaign for a permanent appointment, Mark's appointment was interim. All salary arrangements are a matter of public record and within normal salary bands set for the CEO post. No external interim arrangements have been made in the reference period requested. Current salary arrangements for the permanent appointment, which covers two local authorities, is displayed in accounts and in the senior salaries information listed and posted in the normal way.

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