Financial Allowances and Member Attendance Information
Remuneration payments to Town Councillors:
Please note that the payments marked compulsory are a requirement under the Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales and MUST be made available.
The following payments were available in the municipal year May 2024 to April 2025:
£156 per year to be paid per Member paid yearly in arrears as reimbursement for ‘working from home’, unless the Clerk is advised in writing that a Member does not wish to take up all or part of the payment and should be made in each Municipal Year (May-April). (Compulsory Payment).
£52 per year to be paid per Member paid yearly in arrears as reimbursement of expenses unless the Clerk is advised in writing that a Member does not wish to take up all or part of the payment and should be made in each Municipal Year (May-April). (Compulsory Payment).
Payments Made
2025/26
Cllr. L. Harling-Bowen – Working from Home and general expenses payments £208.00
Cllr. C. Kirkby – Working from Home and general expenses payments £208.00
Cllr. D. Edwards – Mayor’s Allowance/Expenses 2025-26 £136.80
Cllr. T. Owens – Balance of Mayor’s Allowance/Expenses from 2024-25 (spent in 2025-26)
£1200.00
Total £1752.80
All but two of the thirteen Members declined the working from home and expenses
allowances. No other payments were made.
2024/25
Cllr. B. Baynham – Working from Home and general expenses payments £208.00
Cllr. C. Kirkby – Working from Home and general expenses payments £208.00
Cllr. T. Owens – Mayor’s Allowance/Expenses £135.11
Cllr. B. Baynham – Balance of Mayor’s Allowance/Expenses from 2023-24 (spent in 2024-25) £1234.31
All but two Members declined the working from home and expenses allowances.
No other payments were made.
2023/24
Cllr. B. Baynham – Mayor’s Allowance expenses of £265.69
Cllr. B. Baynham – Working from Home and general expenses payments £208.00
All but one Member declined the working from home and expenses allowances.
No other payments were made.
2022/23
Cllr. D. Edwards – Mayor’s Allowance – £1000 plus expenses of £12.00. Balance of expenses wil lbe paid in 2023/24.
Cllr. F. Preece – balance of Mayor’s expenses 21/22 £354.88
All Members declined the £150 allowance.
No other payments were made.
2021/22
Cllr. F. Preece – Mayor’s Allowance – £1000 Allowance plus expenses of £137.25.
All Members declined the £150 annual allowance.
No other payments were made.
2020/21
Cllr. T. Owens – Mayor’s Allowance (inc balance from 2019/20) £2453.20 Allowance (two years) £259.68 (expenses)
Twelve Members declined the £150 annual allowance. One Member was paid – Cllr. F. Preece £150.
No other payments were made.
2019/20 Cllr. T. Owens – Mayor’s Expenses £132.30 (balance of Allowance held pending allocation after coronavirus crisis). No Members claimed the £150 annual allowance.
2018/19 Cllr. C. Kirkby – Mayor’s Allowance £1100. No Members claimed the £150 allowance on offer.
2017/18 Cllr. J. Wilding – Mayor’s Allowance £1050.
2016/17 Cllr. J. Tennant-Eyles – Mayor’s Allowance £1000.
Member Attendance at Meetings
For details on the attendance for individual Councillors please see below. Failure to attend meetings for six consecutive months results in automatic disqualification from office unless an extension of the absence has been agreed by full Council prior to the expiry of the six month period.
- Member Attendance 2025-26
- Member Attendance 2024-25
- Member Attendance2023-24
- Member Attendance 2022-23
- Member Attendance 2021-22
- Member Attendance 2020-21
- Member Attendance 2019-20
- Member Attendance 2018/19
- Member Attendance 2017/18
- Member Attendance 2016/17
- Member Attendance 2015/16
- Member Attendance 2014/15
