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   "source_url": "https://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Accounts_24-25_DCC.pdf",
   "source_title": "Dundee City Council Audited Annual Accounts 2024/25",
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   "source_url": "https://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Accounts_24-25_DCC.pdf",
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   "source_title": "Dundee City Council Audited Annual Accounts 2024/25",
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   "source_url": "https://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Accounts_24-25_DCC.pdf",
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   "costPartial": false
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   "cost": 1464000,
   "costPartial": false
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  {
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   "cost": 463000,
   "costPartial": false
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  {
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   "cost": 21000,
   "costPartial": false
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  {
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   "costPartial": false
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   "council": "Dundee City",
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   "lower": 150001,
   "upper": 250000,
   "packages": 1,
   "cost": 153000
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  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2024/25",
   "lower": 100001,
   "upper": 120000,
   "packages": 1,
   "cost": 114000
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   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2019/20",
   "lgps": 24077000,
   "teachers": 18100000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £24,077k, Movement in Reserves section of Note 20 (Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; Tayside Pension Fund column also covers discretionary benefits arrangements); printed in £000s. Teachers: £18.1m paid to Teachers' Pensions per Note 19, printed in £m. No combined total printed. Note 20 asset reconciliation shows a slightly different 'Employer contributions' figure of £24,038k."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2020/21",
   "lgps": 24344000,
   "teachers": 19940000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £24,344k, Movement in Reserves section of Note 20 (Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; column also covers discretionary benefits arrangements); printed in £000s. Teachers: £19.94m paid to Teachers' Pensions (31.4% of pensionable pay) per Note 19, printed in £m. No combined total printed. Note 20 asset reconciliation shows a slightly different 'Employer contributions' figure of £24,620k."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2021/22",
   "lgps": 24749000,
   "teachers": 20300000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £24,749k, Movement in Reserves section of Note 20 (Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; column also covers discretionary benefits arrangements); printed in £000s. Teachers: £20.3m paid to Teachers' Pensions per Note 19 (printed as '£20.3.m', read as £20.3m), printed in £m. No combined total printed. Note 20 asset reconciliation shows a slightly different 'Employer contributions' figure of £25,101k."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "lgps": 26233000,
   "teachers": 22500000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £26,233k, Movement in Reserves section of Note 20 (Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; column also covers discretionary benefits arrangements); printed in £000s. Teachers: £22.5m paid to Teachers' Pensions (31.5% of pensionable pay) per Note 19, printed in £m. No combined total printed. Note 20 asset reconciliation shows a slightly different 'Employer contributions' figure of £26,305k."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "lgps": 28406000,
   "teachers": 24200000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £28,406k, Movement in Reserves section of Note 20 (Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; column also covers discretionary benefits arrangements); printed in £000s. Teachers: £24.2m paid to Teachers' Pensions per Note 19, printed in £m. No combined total printed. Note 20 asset reconciliation shows a slightly different 'Employer contributions' figure of £28,278k."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2024/25",
   "lgps": 27310000,
   "teachers": 27100000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'employers' contributions payable to scheme' £27,310k, Movement in Reserves section of Note 20 (Defined Benefit Pension Schemes; column also covers discretionary benefits arrangements); printed in £000s. Teachers: £27.1m paid to Teachers' Pensions (34.9% of pensionable pay) per Note 19, printed in £m. No combined total printed. Note 20 asset reconciliation shows a slightly different 'Employer contributions' figure of £27,233k."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2019/20",
   "total": 642362,
   "salaries": 592536,
   "n": 29,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, all-councillors table (printed in whole £): salaries £592,536 and total £642,362 as printed. No single expenses line printed; components shown separately (mileage/travel £3,635, training £885, telephone £2,760, provision of council cars £42,546). 29 elected councillors per Annual Governance Statement."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2020/21",
   "total": 652222,
   "salaries": 608195,
   "n": 29,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, all-councillors table (printed in whole £): salaries £608,195 and total £652,222 as printed. No single expenses line printed; components shown separately (telephone £3,618, provision of council cars £40,409; mileage and training nil). 29 elected councillors per Annual Governance Statement."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2021/22",
   "total": 674456,
   "salaries": 631672,
   "n": 29,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, all-councillors table (printed in whole £): salaries £631,672 and total £674,456 as printed. No single expenses line printed; components shown separately (mileage £266, telephone £2,929, provision of council cars £39,589). 29 elected councillors per Annual Governance Statement."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2022/23",
   "total": 713275,
   "salaries": 661527,
   "n": 29,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, all-councillors table (printed in whole £): salaries £661,527 and total £713,275 as printed. No single expenses line printed; components shown separately (mileage £4,767, training £85, telephone £3,277, other allowances £285, provision of council cars £43,334). 29 elected councillors per Annual Governance Statement."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2023/24",
   "total": 744131,
   "salaries": 689150,
   "n": 29,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Remuneration paid to Councillors' table (printed in whole £): salaries £689,150 and total £744,131 as printed. No single expenses line printed; components shown separately (mileage £6,283, telephone £2,147, other allowances £521, provision of council cars £46,030). 29 elected councillors per Annual Governance Statement."
  },
  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "fy": "2024/25",
   "total": 775636,
   "salaries": 720468,
   "n": 29,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report, 'Remuneration paid to Councillors' table (printed in whole £): salaries £720,468 and total £775,636 as printed. No single expenses line printed; components shown separately (mileage £2,524, training £90, telephone £1,532, other allowances £596, provision of council cars £50,426). 29 elected councillors per Annual Governance Statement."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "council": "Dundee City",
   "body": "Leisure and Culture Dundee",
   "body_type": "SCIO",
   "fy": "2024/25",
   "name": null,
   "title": "Employees in band",
   "salary": null,
   "salary_band": "£120,000 - £130,000",
   "is_band": 1,
   "notes": "Note 5, staff numbers and costs: '1 employee received remuneration of between £120,000 and £130,000 (2024 - 1)'; only band at or above £100,000. Individual not named.",
   "source_url": "https://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/sites/default/files/lacd-accounts-24-25-signed.pdf",
   "source_title": "Leisure & Culture Dundee Annual Report and financial statements for the year to 31 March 2025 (charity SC042421)",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Judy Dobbie",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Dundee City Council's audited 2024/25 remuneration report names Judy Dobbie, Director of Leisure and Culture Dundee, with salary GBP 125,210 (pension GBP 19,658) - inside the GBP 120,000-130,000 band - and LACD's own accounts disclose exactly one employee in that band. The council report has disclosed her in this post since 2019/20.",
    "sources": "https://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Accounts_24-25_DCC.pdf; https://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/sites/default/files/lacd-accounts-24-25-signed.pdf"
   }
  }
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 "notes": "Null means not disclosed, never zero. In pay_bands_by_year, 'nominal' counts staff above a fixed cash threshold and 'real' counts staff above the CPI-equivalent of that threshold in the first recorded year. Officer 'ident' is the full name behind disclosed initials, with its basis. See /methodology/."
}