Deputy Lord Mayor to be Abolished

Tonight I will be attending the annual ceremony in which the mayor is installed at Leeds City Council. For the first time since the position was created in the 1960s there will be no Deputy Lord Mayor.

Cllr Patrick Davey who currently holds the position has said that this will save the taxpayer £100,000. This is great news in an era of public spending cuts. A lot of the discussion in the press in Leeds on the cost of the Lord Mayor stems from a Freedom of Information request that I put in last year.

Good to see the council have finally responded although if the figures quoted by Cllr Davey in the Yorkshire Evening Post are a little optimistic based on my FOI request.