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  {
   "name": "L Long",
   "title": "Chief Executive",
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   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 10000,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Pension contribution disclosed only in £000s (£10k); rounded figure. Other fees and taxable expenses nil.",
   "council": "Inverclyde",
   "source_url": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/19849/Inverclyde-Council-Audited-Accounts-2024-2025-.pdf",
   "source_title": "Inverclyde Council Audited Annual Accounts 2024-2025",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Louise Long",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same person as senior_pay 'Long, L'. Signature blocks in the council's audited accounts (2020-21 and 2022-23) are signed 'Louise Long, Chief Executive'; council news release 'Louise is new Chief' (Jun 2021) records her appointment as Chief Executive.",
    "sources": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/16666/Inverclyde-Council-Audited-Accounts-2022-2023.pdf; https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/news/2021/jun/louise-is-new-chief"
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  {
   "name": "K Rocks",
   "title": "Chief Officer, Inverclyde Health and Social Care Partnership",
   "salary": 135563,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 9000,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Pension contribution disclosed only in £000s (£9k); rounded figure.",
   "council": "Inverclyde",
   "source_url": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/19849/Inverclyde-Council-Audited-Accounts-2024-2025-.pdf",
   "source_title": "Inverclyde Council Audited Annual Accounts 2024-2025",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Kate Rocks",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same person as senior_pay 'Rocks, K'. Council news release (Apr 2022) and IJB appointment paper name Kate Rocks as Chief Officer of Inverclyde HSCP from 16/08/2022; council minutes of 28/09/2023 list 'Kate Rocks, Chief Officer, Inverclyde Health & Social Care Partnership'.",
    "sources": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/news/2022/apr/new-health-and-social-care-chief-officer-appointed; https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/meetings/documents/16844/Complete%20PUBLIC%20Mins%201-17.pdf"
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  },
  {
   "name": "R Binks",
   "title": "Corporate Director Education, Communities & Organisational Development",
   "salary": 134380,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 9000,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Pension contribution disclosed only in £000s (£9k); rounded figure.",
   "council": "Inverclyde",
   "source_url": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/19849/Inverclyde-Council-Audited-Accounts-2024-2025-.pdf",
   "source_title": "Inverclyde Council Audited Annual Accounts 2024-2025",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Ruth Binks",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same person as senior_pay 'Binks R' / 'Binks, R'. Council management structure chart (02/09/2019) and council news releases (Jun 2018 appointment; Jan 2026 departure after 11 years) name Ruth Binks in this post throughout.",
    "sources": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/5151/current-management-structure-as-at-020919.pdf; https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/news/2026/jan/education-director-leaving-after-11-years"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "S Jamieson",
   "title": "Director Environment & Regeneration",
   "salary": 122253,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 8000,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Pension contribution disclosed only in £000s (£8k); rounded figure.",
   "council": "Inverclyde",
   "source_url": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/19849/Inverclyde-Council-Audited-Accounts-2024-2025-.pdf",
   "source_title": "Inverclyde Council Audited Annual Accounts 2024-2025",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Stuart Jamieson",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same person as senior_pay 'Jamieson, S'. The 2024-25 audited accounts are signed 'Stuart Jamieson, Chief Executive'; the management structure chart (02/09/2019) and the 2020-21 accounts note (5) trace his promotion chain from Head of Regeneration & Planning through Interim Service Director to Director Environment & Regeneration.",
    "sources": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/19849/Inverclyde-Council-Audited-Accounts-2024-2025-.pdf; https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/5151/current-management-structure-as-at-020919.pdf"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "A Puckrin",
   "title": "Chief Financial Officer",
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   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 7000,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Pension contribution disclosed only in £000s (£7k); rounded figure.",
   "council": "Inverclyde",
   "source_url": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/19849/Inverclyde-Council-Audited-Accounts-2024-2025-.pdf",
   "source_title": "Inverclyde Council Audited Annual Accounts 2024-2025",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Alan Puckrin",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same person as senior_pay 'Puckrin, A'. Signature blocks in the council's audited accounts (2020-21 and 2022-23) name 'Alan Puckrin C.P.F.A' as Chief Financial Officer / Interim Director, Finance and Corporate Governance; the management structure chart (02/09/2019) names him Chief Financial Officer.",
    "sources": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/16666/Inverclyde-Council-Audited-Accounts-2022-2023.pdf; https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/5151/current-management-structure-as-at-020919.pdf"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "J Hinds",
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   "salary": 104492,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 7000,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Pension contribution disclosed only in £000s (£7k); rounded figure.",
   "council": "Inverclyde",
   "source_url": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/19849/Inverclyde-Council-Audited-Accounts-2024-2025-.pdf",
   "source_title": "Inverclyde Council Audited Annual Accounts 2024-2025",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Jonathan Hinds",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same person as senior_pay 'Hinds, J'. The council's Inverclyde HSCP Senior Management Team page names Jonathan Hinds as Chief Social Work Officer and head of children's services; the 2022-23 audited accounts note (2) records his appointment on 20/02/2023.",
    "sources": "https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/who-we-are/hscp-management-team; https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/16666/Inverclyde-Council-Audited-Accounts-2022-2023.pdf"
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   "notes": "LGPS: 'Employers' contributions payable to Strathclyde Pension Fund' £14,012k, prior-year column of Note 16 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (£000s, ×1000). Teachers: £6.867m paid in respect of teachers' retirement benefits per Note 17 Post-employment Benefits: Teachers (£m, ×1,000,000). No combined total printed."
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   "council": "Inverclyde",
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   "notes": "LGPS: 'Employers' contributions payable to Strathclyde Pension Fund' £14,337k, Note 16 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (£000s, ×1000). Teachers: £8.080m paid in respect of teachers' retirement benefits per Note 17 Post-employment Benefits: Teachers (£m, ×1,000,000). No combined total printed."
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   "council": "Inverclyde",
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   "notes": "LGPS: 'Employers' contributions payable to Strathclyde Pension Fund' £15,094k, prior-year column of Note 16 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (£000s, ×1000). Teachers: £8.544m paid in respect of teachers' retirement benefits per Note 17 Post-employment Benefits: Teachers (£m, ×1,000,000). No combined total printed."
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   "council": "Inverclyde",
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   "notes": "LGPS: 'Employers' contributions payable to Strathclyde Pension Fund' £16,612k, Note 16 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (£000s, ×1000). Teachers: £9.005m paid in respect of teachers' retirement benefits per Note 17 Post-employment Benefits: Teachers (£m, ×1,000,000). No combined total printed."
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   "council": "Inverclyde",
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   "lgps": 17943000,
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   "notes": "LGPS: 'Employers' contributions payable to Strathclyde Pension Fund' £17,943k, prior-year column of Note 16 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (£000s, ×1000). Teachers: £9.557m paid in respect of teachers' retirement benefits per Note 17 Post-employment Benefits: Teachers (£m, ×1,000,000). No combined total printed."
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   "fy": "2024/25",
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   "teachers": 10996000,
   "notes": "LGPS: 'Employers' contributions payable to Strathclyde Pension Fund' £7,795k, Note 16 Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (£000s, ×1000); the fall reflects the employer rate cut to 6.5% from 1 April 2024 per the 2023 triennial review. Teachers: £10.996m paid in respect of teachers' retirement benefits per Note 17 Post-employment Benefits: Teachers (£m, ×1,000,000). No combined total printed."
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   "n": 22,
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   "salaries": 445474,
   "n": 22,
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   "salaries": 472522,
   "n": 22,
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   "salaries": 485714,
   "n": 22,
   "notes": "Remuneration Report s6 'Councillors' Remuneration', 2023-2024 comparative column of the All Councillors table (whole £): salaries and total as printed. Expenses null: itemised expense lines printed but no single expenses subtotal. 22 councillors per the council profile in the same document."
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   "salaries": 510578,
   "n": 22,
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