Councillors in Oxfordshire have had almost £1m paid into their pension pots, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

Oxford Mail report:

TAXPAYERS have given almost £1m to Oxfordshire councillors’ pensions as part of an “unjustified” scheme that will be outlawed.

Some £960,814 in contributions have been made to the “gold plated” Local Government Pension Scheme by Oxfordshire councils.

The scheme – of which about one in four eligible district, county and city councillors are members – will close from next April.

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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.