24 January 2023
Your request
The questions relate to the pay of both chief executives and interim chief executives.
- Has your organisation hired an interim chief-executive officer(s) in the past five years (from now up until January 2018)? If this is the case, please provide their names and the dates they held the position for (if more than one interim CEOs have been in place over the past five years, please give the dates both held the position? If an interim CEO is currently in place, please make this clear.
- For each interim-CEO who was in place, please provide their pay (before tax). Ideally, this will be given as a daily rate – however, if this is not achievable, please provide a monthly salary or an annual one. Please include any bonuses awarded to the individual(s) during their employment. If an interim-CEO is currently in place, please provide the number of months they are expected to serve and how many of these have been served so far. If their pay changed over their term, please clarify when and how it was altered.
- Please provide the salary of the current chief executive (full-time not interim). If an interim-CEO is currently in place, please provide the annual salary of the most recent permanent CEO and the dates they were in the position for. As above, please provide any bonuses awarded to the CEO in this period. If the individual’s salary changed over the five year term, please make this clear.
Our response
- Yes - Andrew Travers 24/10/2017 to 13/09/2018
- Day rate was £791.33 PAYE for the duration of the engagement.
- Lambeth Council has not provided the information in response to this request as we consider that the information is intended for future publication as part of the pay policy statement to be published shortly. We therefore engage Section 22 to this request as per below definition.
However, as per s16 of the Freedom of Information Act (duty to provide advice and assistance), we can confirm that the current pay is £187,775.
Section 22: Information intended for future publication
(1) Information is exempt information if:
(a) the information is held by the public authority with a view to its publication, by the authority or any other person, at some future date (whether determined or not),
(b) the information was already held with a view to such publication at the time when the request for information was made, and
(c) it is reasonable in all the circumstances that the information should be withheld from disclosure until the date referred to in paragraph (a).
Public Interest in Disclosure
Lambeth Council acknowledges that disclosure would increase transparency and improve the public’s understanding of this issue.
Public Interest in maintaining the exemption
The data requested is in draft form and releasing incomplete information would be inaccurate and potentially misleading.