[BBC News] Sacked clerk's expenses revealed

[Newsbot]

The former clerk of Braddan Commissioners was paid £33,000 in expenses last year, it is revealed.

 

Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/6639035.stm

[thesultanofsheight]

The former clerk of Braddan Commissioners was paid £33,000 in expenses last year, it is revealed.

 

Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/6639035.stm

 

Do local authorities need to have expenses audited?

[Pragmatopian]

If they don't already this shows that they probably should. It is, after all, one of the most common ways in which businesses are defrauded by their employees.

[TheJudge]

that's an awful lot of mileage !!

[bluemonday]

I see that the BBC reports also points out that fifteen local authority clerks claimed no expenses............

[Fido]

Some people don't claim expenses because they feel their salary should cover matters such as the occasional mileage here and there or it simply isn't worth the paper work for a few hundred quid a year. But £33,000!! Wow, you don't turn your nose up at that do you.

[TheJudge]

Some people don't claim expenses because they feel their salary should cover matters such as the occasional mileage here and there or it simply isn't worth the paper work for a few hundred quid a year. But £33,000!! Wow, you don't turn your nose up at that do you.

 

You don't turn your nose up at £33,000 as long as it is legitimate and doesn't come back to bite you on the arse. Remember, this is the clerk who got sacked for "gross misconduct". I wonder whether or not his expenses have got anything to do with it?

[Sparky]

that's an awful lot of mileage !!

 

Approximately 55,000 @ 60p per mile. Or approximately 1,500 return trips to Ramsey.

[Fido]

'Lawyers Say Clerk's Expenses Figure Inaccurate'

 

Manx Radio Report

[Gladys]

Wasn't there some publicity about his pension during the previous argy bargy? Perhaps that is where the majority of the 'expenses' have been spent and mis-described as expenses. Either way, someone has approved the 'expenses' so you would assume they were rightfully claimed and paid.

 

I love the Manx style news reporting; just stating bald facts without any analysis, leaving us all to start weaving tales of deceit and underhand doings.

[thesultanofsheight]

that's an awful lot of mileage !!

 

Approximately 55,000 @ 60p per mile. Or approximately 1,500 return trips to Ramsey.

 

Maybe Braddan has its own Chopper. You could spend a few quid dropping fuel into one of those for a quick trip into Douglas. Its hard to see how you could run that sort of bill up otherwise.