Cap the pay-offs

Thanks to the Taxpayers Alliance, senior staff leaving public sector roles in England and Wales will soon have ‘redundancy’ payouts capped at £95,000 by the westminster government.

In Scotland three council chiefs were handed huge golden goodbyes in 2017-18. Perth and Kinross Council gave the head of finance £287,000 and the senior deputy chief executive £194,188. Aberdeen City Council made a golden goodbye of £188,093.

As reported by The Scotsman in 2007, the chief executive of East Lothian Council persuaded councillors to pay him £130,000 redundancy, despite him planning to retire. Public anger forced Audit Scotland to investigate and the payment was cancelled.

That was 11 years ago, so why did the Scottish Government not do something at that time to stop this taxpayer-funded scandal? I trust the Scottish Government will now act and rush the appropriate legislation through and show Westminster how it should be done.

CLARK CROSS Springfield Road Linlithgow