Purcell Quango Troughers

It's never ending....

.......City Building – previously a department of the local authority – allowed salaries for senior managers, some closely associated with the Labour Party, to balloon after it became a much-feted "arms-length" company wholly owned by the public......


.....Scotland on Sunday has learned that City Building executives:


*allowed the wage bill for senior staff to more than double from at least £730,000 in 2007 to at least £1.5m in 2009, in the first two full years of nominal independence from the council;


*approved a vehicle leasing scheme that allowed executives to rent luxury cars, including Mercedes Benz, from the business;


*spent nearly £20,000 in a single year on 18 dinner events, 11 of which were attended by Labour councillors;


*took a table at the cost of £2,000 at a Labour Party fundraiser, where it entertained senior Labour figures, including Scottish leader Iain Gray and his wife, despite long-standing conventions that public bodies do not make contributions to political parties.


*agreed a salary hike from at least £110,000 to at least £140,000 for Docherty.

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