Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.THE leader of North Lanarkshire Council’s Conservative group has criticised payments of more than £12.2 million made by the authority to departing staff in recent years.Councillor Meghan Gallacher says these figures highlight how council resources have been “stretched to the bone” by Scottish Government cuts to local authorities.The council has made 475 agreements in just the last three years, with the bill totalling over at least £3 million in each financial year since 2017/18.A Freedom of Information request shows the council was second out of local authorities in terms of agreements made, behind only Aberdeen City which made 555 agreements since 2017.Councillor.
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