2nd July 2021 MHCLG publishes summary exit payment data

MHCLG has today published Local authority exit payments (first estimates), England, 2019-20 and 2020-21. Note that the file on the site is in OpenDocument format which you may need to convert into Excel in order to see all the data. This is the first summary of the exit payment data submitted by councils and will be followed by a further publication in the coming weeks however initial indications are that the average exit payment made in 2020-21 across local authorities was £26,000 including pension strain.