A NORTH Yorkshire district council paid its chief executive nearly £400,000 last year, a new report has revealed.
Research by the Tax Payers Alliance shows Hambleton District Council, which cover Thirsk, Northallerton, Easingwold and the rural areas in betweem, paid boss Phil Morton £397,000 in 2015/16.
Mr Morton, who took voluntary redundancy in February 2016, was the highest paid council official in Yorkshire.
He earned more than the Richard Flinton, the chief executive of North Yorkshire County Council, who was on £193,105.
A Hambleton spokesman said: "In 2015/16 Hambleton District Council’s chief executive retired upon taking voluntary redundancy – the payment was made in line with council’s corporate policy and as part of a management restructure, which deleted the post of deputy chief executive resulting in significant savings."
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