The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 (the Code) was issued to meet the government’s desire to place more power into citizens’ hands to increase democratic accountability and make it easier for local people to contribute to the local decision making proces.

Northleach with Eastington Town Council (“the Council”) meets the definition of a local authority covered by the requirements of the Code, which includes ‘a parish council which has gross annual income or expenditure (whichever is higher) exceeding £200,000’ (April 2025).

The Code requires local authorities in England to publish the following information quarterly:

Additionally, local authorities are required to publish the following information annually:

Full details of the Code: Local Government Transparency Code

Payments over £500

This Council publishes details of payments over £500 and these can be found on our Financial Information pages.

Government Procurement Card Transactions

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

This 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.

This Council publishes details of invitations to tender and contracts on our Tenders & Contracts page.

Local Authority Land

The Code requires that local authorities must publish details of all land and building assets including service and office properties, undeveloped land, whether freehold and leasehold, and all future commitments, for example under an agreement to lease, from when the contractual commitment is made.

For each land or building asset, the following information must be published together in one place:

  • Unique Property Reference Number
  • Unique asset identity
  • Name of the building/land or both
  • Street number(s)
  • Post town
  • United Kingdom postcode
  • Map reference – either Ordnance Survey or ISO 6709
  • Whether the local authority owns the freehold or a lease for the asset and for whichever category applies, the local authority must list all the characteristics that apply from the options given in the code.

This Council publishes this information on its asset register, which can be found on our Land & Assets page.

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

This Council does not hold any social housing stock and therefore has no information to publish.

Grants To VCSE Organisations

The code requires that local authorities must publish details of all grants to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. This can be achieved by either tagging and hence specifically identifying transactions which relate to voluntary, community or social enterprise organisations within published data on expenditure over £500, or by publishing a separate list or register.

For each identified grant, the following information must be published as a minimum:

  • Date the grant was awarded
  • Time period for which the grant has been given
  • Local authority department which has awarded the grant
  • Beneficiary
  • Beneficiary’s registration number (where applicable)
  • Summary of the purpose of the grant
  • Amount

This Council publishes information on its grant giving on our Community Grants page.

Organisational Chart

Local authorities must publish an organisation chart covering staff in the top three levels of the organisation.

This Council’s organisational chart has been published below. This should exclude all staff earning below £50,000. Since no staff earn more than this, we show basic information with job titles only.


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

This Council does not have any staff members who represent a union or devotes any time to union duties. Therefore, the Council 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

This Council does not have a parking account, and has no chargeable on-street parking nor enforcement rights to issue Penalty Charge Notices. Therefore, the Council 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 spaces are not marked out in individual parking bays or spaces.

This Council does not have any 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.

This Council has no posts where remuneration is £50,000 or greater and therefore has no information to publish.

Constitution

Local authorities must under the Code publish their constitution on their website.

This Council’s constitution is made up of the Standing Orders, Financial Regulations, and Code of Conduct, which can be found on our Policies and Procedures webpage.

Pay Multiple

The Code requires that local authorities to 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

This Council’s pay multiple as of 1 April 2025 is 1.28.

Fraud

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

  • Number of occasions they use powers under the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud (Power to Require Information) (England) Regulations 2014, or similar powers
  • Total number (absolute and full time equivalent) of employees undertaking investigations and prosecutions of fraud
  • Total number (absolute and full time equivalent) of professionally accredited counter fraud specialists
  • Total amount spent by the authority on the investigation and prosecution of fraud
  • Total number of fraud cases investigated

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