GWYNEDD Council spent £1.365m on redundancy packages last year at the same time as it spent £1.3m on senior officers’ wages, the Cambrian News can reveal.

The council’s official accounts for the 2016-17 financial year, seen by the Cambrian News ahead of their official publication later this year, reveal 92 members of staff were made redundant at a cost of £1.365m to the taxpayer — down from £1.8m on the previous year.

This happened at the same time that four senior officers were paid in excess of £100,000 — all salary figures include pension contributions — with another eight earning more than £70,000.

Twenty four non-senior council staff earned more than £60,000, seven of which earned more than £75,000 with one earning more than £130,000.

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