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Council double pay axed

MINISTERS have announced plans to outlaw within weeks a controversial system of gratuity payments to councillors serving on the boards of bodies funded by the same local authority.

JOHN Swinney: Aims to stop council abusing Aleo system.
JOHN Swinney: Aims to stop council abusing Aleo system.
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GERRY BRAIDEN

Finance Secretary John Swinney will today publish new regulations to stop local authorities allowing a body it controls awarding payments, in a pre-emptive swipe aimed at Labour-run Glasgow City Council’s raft of so-called arm’s-length external organisations (Aleos).