Shropshire council has said revealing the pay-offs made to senior staff under the Freedom of Information Act would be “unfair”. 

The Shropshire Star report:

Director of places Tom McCabe and head of finance and commerce Rachel Musson drew a combined annual salary of more than £210,000.

They both left the authority recently as part of a management shake-up.

The council’s information governance team today refused a Freedom of Information request from the Shropshire Star – claiming it would be ‘unfair’ to reveal what pay-offs they were given.

You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.