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How We Share Public Data: Melksham Town Council’s Transparency Commitment

Public Data Transparency

The Government has published ‘The Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency’ which effectively recommends Town Councils which have a gross annual income or expenditure (whichever is the higher) of a least £200,000 to publish ‘Public Data’.

The Code of Recommended Practice for local authorities is to provide greater transparency of public bodies, which is at the heart of their mandate to enable greater democratic accountability over how council tax and public money is spent. However, Public Data does not include personal information as this would contravene the Data Protection Act 2018.

In accordance with the Code of Recommended Practice and general good practice, Melksham Town Council makes the following information available:

Expenditure

Melksham Town Council decided to publish all bank and credit card payments, regardless of their limit, every month.

Please visit our Finance and Audit Page.

Notice of Conclusion of Audit 2023 -2024

Each year the Council is required to complete and submit to its External Auditor, an Annual Governance and Accountability Return. Once the return has been approved by the External Auditor, it is published on the Council’s website.
The audited accounts for Melksham Town Council for year ended on 31st March 2024 has been complete.

Please visit our Finance and Audit Page.

Procurement Information

Notice of Conclusion of Audit
Section 1,2 and 3 of the Annual Governance
Financial Documents year-end March 2025
Please visit our Finance and Audit Page.

Budget

  • 2025/2025
  • 2023/2024
  • 2022/2022
  • 2022/2020/2021

Details of any contracts, commissioned activity, purchase orders, framework agreement or any other legally enforceable agreement with a value that exceeds £5,000.

Please visit out Finance and Audit Page.

Local Authority Land

Details of our land and building assets can be found in this document.

Social Housing Asset Value

Local authorities must publish details on the value of social housing assets within local authorities Housing Revenue Account. This must be published annually.
The Parish Council does not hold any Social Housing Assets.

Grants to Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Organisations

All grants approved by Melksham Town Council to follow.  Visit the Grants section for further details of our grants and an application form.

Organisation Chart

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Trade union facility time

The Town Council does not have any Trade Union representatives.

Parking Account

Local authorities must publish on their website or place a link on their website to this data if published elsewhere: a breakdown of income and expenditure on the authority’s parking account, and a breakdown of how the authority has spent a surplus on its parking account. This must be published annually.

The Town Council does not have a parking account.

Senior Salaries

The Town Council is required to publish details of any senior employees (including job descriptions, responsibilities, budgets, and number of staff) earning over £50,000 per annum. This must be published annually.

One member of staff receives a salary of over £50,000:

Chief Executive Officer
The Chief Officer is responsible for all 18 members of staff.

Constitution

Local authorities must publish their Constitution on their website. This must be published annually.

Fraud

Local authorities must publish information about any counter fraud work.
The Parish Council do not have any current fraud cases

Freedom of Information

Freedom of Information Requests 2024/25

 

Waste Contracts

Local authorities must publish details of their existing waste collection contracts at the point they first publish quarterly contract information. This is a one-off publication.

Our Waste Contract can be found in the Finance and Audit Page.