Payments to Councillors from Rochdale Borough Council

Rochdale Borough Council provides details of payments made to local councillors to help meet the costs of representing their communities. The dataset is licensed under OGL-UK-3.0 and was last updated on 2026-07-08. Councillors are volunteers and unpaid, but receive payments set by an independent review body.

Use Cases

• Analyzing public expenditure on local political representation based on the described payment details.
• Monitoring transparency and accountability in local government finances based on the published payment records.
• Comparing councillor allowance structures across different UK councils based on the described independent review body framework.

Strengths

• Data is provided under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, facilitating reuse.
• The dataset has a specific last updated timestamp of 2026-07-08 13:33:21.485544.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Rochdale Borough Council

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:21.485544; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rochdale Borough, United Kingdom