Issue - meetings

The Localism Act 2011 (Section 39) requires all public authorities to publish an Annual Pay Policy Statement. The Council is required to adopt the Annual Pay Policy Statement each year and the Council is not legally permitted to depart from the policies set out in that statement when it considers actual decisions in relation to individuals’ remuneration, including redundancy and/or severance.

The Annual Pay Policy Statement for the 2023/24 financial year is attached at Annexe 1. It has been updated in line with the requirements of the Localism Act 2011 and harmonised in terms of wording with the Guildford Pay Policy. The table below highlights the key changes.

Recommendation

The Executive recommends to Council that the Pay Policy Statement for the 2023/24 financial year, attached at Annexe 1, be approved.

90.1     The Leader introduced the Annual Pay Policy Statement and moved the recommendation, which was seconded by Cllr Liz Townsend.

RESOLVED that the Pay Policy Statement for the 2023/24 financial year be approved.

The Localism Act 2011 (Section 39) requires all public authorities to publish an Annual Pay Policy Statement. The Council is required to adopt the Annual Pay Policy Statement each year and the Council is not legally permitted to depart from the policies set out in that statement when it considers actual decisions in relation to individuals’ remuneration, including redundancy and/or severance.

Recommendation

That the Executive recommends to Council that the Pay Policy Statement for the 2023/24 financial year, attached at Annexe 1, be approved.

The Executive RESOLVED to recommend to Council that the Pay Policy Statement for the 2023/24 financial year, attached at Annexe 1, be approved, subject to an amendment to correct the reference to the Joint Chief Executive being the Council’s Returning Officer.

Reason: to comply with the Localism Act 2011 (Sections 38 and 39).

[This matter is recommended to Full Council for decision.]

The Leader presented the report which set out the Council’s Pay Policy Statement, which the Council was required to review and adopt annually. The Pay Policy Statement had been aligned with Guildford’s and where there were differences these were shown in the covering report.

Cllr Jerry Hyman spoke on this item and pointed out that in section 11 incorrectly stated that the Joint Chief Executive was Waverley’s Returning Officer. The Leader thanked Cllr Hyman for pointing out this error and

The Executive RESOLVED to recommend to Council that the Pay Policy Statement for the 2023/24 financial year, attached at Annexe 1 to the report, be approved, subject to an amendment to correct the reference to the Joint Chief Executive being the Council’s Returning Officer.

Reason

To comply with the Localism Act 2011 (Sections 38 and 39).