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Storm brewing over exit payment data demands

Government demands for details of senior staff pay-offs have been branded ‘particularly pernicious’ and unfairly aimed at local government.

Government demands for details of senior staff pay-offs have been branded ‘particularly pernicious' and unfairly aimed at local government.

Officials at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have written to finance directors demanding details of exit payments going back seven years after the Treasury was forced into a U-turn on its £95,000 cap earlier this year.

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