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New data from the Department for Levelling Up and Communities shows the council spent £1,228,000 to make 70 staff members redundant in the year to March 2023.
Each package had an average cost of £18,000 each.
The council made a total of 89 redundancies the year before, at a cost of £1,545,000.
It spent £347,000 less than in the year to 2020, when its bill for redundancies was £1,575,000.
According to Bolton Council,…
