St. Agnes Parish Council is committed to openness, accountability and providing clear public information. This page brings together the documents and data the Council publishes under the Local Government Transparency Code 2015, along with other key governance and financial information. The purpose of this page is to help residents, businesses and other interested parties understand how St. Agnes Parish Council operates, how public money is spent, what assets and services the Council manages, and where important decisions, records and reports can be accessed. It includes links to spending information, contracts, grants, land and buildings, staffing information, audit and governance documents, parking information and other required transparency publications. Where there is no information to publish in a particular category, this will be stated clearly.
If you cannot find the information you require, please contact the Council.
Expenditure Over £500
The Council must publish details of each individual item of expenditure over £500, with this information published at least quarterly. All expenditure is reported monthly through Full Council meetings, and links to the relevant expenditure reports can always be found within the agenda papers and minutes for those meetings. To provide fuller transparency, the Council has published expenditure across the entire 2025/26 financial year, covering the period from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026.
List of Payments made between 01/04/2026 and 30/06/2026 (2026/27, Quarter 1 period)
List of Payments made between 01/04/2025 and 31/03/2026
Government Procurement Card Transactions
This section is not applicable, as St. Agnes Parish Council does not use a government procurement card as defined by the Code.
Contracts and Procurement Information
The Council is required to publish, at least quarterly and no later than one month after the end of each quarter, details of any contract, commissioned activity, purchase order, framework agreement or other legally enforceable agreement with a value exceeding £5,000 (excluding VAT). This sits alongside the Council’s adopted Financial Regulations, which require the Council to secure best value, obtain at least three fixed-price quotes for contracts over £5,000 excluding VAT, use formal tenders for contracts estimated to exceed £60,000 including VAT, comply with any applicable statutory notice requirements above £30,000 including VAT, and ensure that contracts are not split to avoid procurement rules. The Council is not obliged to accept the lowest quote or tender, but must act lawfully, transparently and in the best interests of the public.
Expenditure over £5,000 Register 2026-27, Quarter 1 (Apr-June)
Expenditure over £5,000 Register 2025-26
Details of land and buildings owned or operated by St. Agnes Parish Council
The Council must publish details of all land and building assets. This must be published annually. The Full Council formally reviews the Asset Register annually in May (please refer to the Meetings webpage). You can view all St. Agnes Parish Council’s land, building and other assets on our Asset Register:
Asset Register
We are currently working on producing a more comprehensive list of all Council land, buildings and other assets. In the meantime, please contact us if you have any questions relating to our land and building assets.
Policies and Governance Documents, including Standing Orders and Financial Regulations
The Council’s policies and governance documents can be found on its Documents and Policies page. Standing Orders and Financial Regulations are reviewed and re-adopted annually in May.
Council Budget
The Council’s budget is published annually following formal adoption, usually in December or January for the forthcoming financial year. In addition to income it raises directly, St. Agnes Parish Council is funded through the precept, which Cornwall Council collects on the Council’s behalf as part of council tax. The Council’s budget is published on the Council Finances page.
Adoption, Full Council minutes – 176/25, 1st December 2025
Adoption, Full Council minutes – 208/24, 2nd December 2024
Grants to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations
St. Agnes Parish Council publishes details of all grants awarded to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. This includes the name of the recipient, a description of the purpose of the grant, the amount awarded, and the date of the award. This information is made available via the Grant webpage to ensure openness and accountability in how public funds are allocated and to demonstrate the community benefit achieved through grant funding.
Information regarding how to apply for a grant can be found on the Grant webpage.
Parking Account & Parking Spaces
The Council operates two off-street car parks:
- Trelawney Road Car Park, Trelawney Road, St. Agnes, TR5 0TP (UPRN: 10001215432). This car park provides 67 spaces. This is the Council’s only car park subject to a formal Off Street Parking Places Order, which came into operation on 1st February 2022.
- Shoppers Car Park, Beach Road, Porthtowan, TR4 8AA. This car park provides approximately 30 spaces and operates on an honesty box basis. There are no formal parking charges.
Breakdown of income and expenditure on the parking account, 2026-27, Quarter 1 (Apr-June)
2025-2026 Breakdown of income and expenditure on the parking account.
All income shown within the Council’s parking account relates to off-street parking only. The Council does not receive any income from Penalty Charge Notices.
Internal and External Auditors
Internal Audit
In accordance with the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015, councils are required to have an annual and mid-year internal audit. The Internal Auditor is appointed by Full Council to evaluate and review the Council’s risk management, controls and governance.
St. Agnes Parish Council’s Internal Auditor is: Mulberry Local Authority Services Ltd
Internal Audit reports are published on the Council Finance page.
External Audit
Each year, the Council’s accounts and Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) are independently reviewed by the appointed external auditor. This process provides assurance that the Council has followed the proper reporting and governance requirements and helps maintain public confidence in the management of public money. The AGAR must be completed and submitted to the appointed external auditor before the end of June each year.
The current appointed External Auditor for Cornwall is: BDO LLP
The AGAR and other external audit reports are publish on the Council Finance page.
Councillor’s Allowances and Expenses
St. Agnes Parish Council does not pay Councillors an allowance. An annual budget of £550 is set to enable reimbursement of legitimate expenses incurred by Councillors in the course of their official duties during their term of office, such as mileage or attendance at civic functions, where properly claimed and approved. This budget equates to approximately £34 per Councillor per year based on 16 Councillors. Any such payments are subject to the Council’s normal authorisation and payment controls under its Standing Orders and Financial Regulations, are included within the approved budget published on the Council Finance page, and are disclosed through the Council’s published expenditure information in line with its transparency obligations.
Organisation Chart, Senior Salaries and pay multiples
The Code requires local authorities to publish details of any senior employee salaries, job title and responsibilities for those earning over £50,000 per annum. As at 31st March 2026, St. Agnes Parish Council has one employee that has met this criteria:
The Parish Clerk and Responsible Financial Officer – Pay Band NALC/SLCC LC3 42 – 45, permanent contract £53,460 to £57,139.
The Clerk is the Council’s Proper Officer and Responsible Financial Officer, with responsibility for the strategic leadership of the Parish Council, its lawful and effective operation, advice to Members on governance, policy and strategy, leadership and management of staff, oversight of Council services, land, buildings and resources, and management of the Council’s budget, financial procedures and statutory reporting. The Clerk also works with other tiers of local government to help develop a clear vision and long-term aims for the Parish and the Parish Council.
Organisation Chart, April 2026
The Council currently employs 16 permanent members of staff (full time and part time). Staff work across three teams: Office (Administration), Library and Maintenance. You can learn more about Council staff on the Council Staff webpage (which is undergoing some updates).
The Code requires that local authorities must publish the pay multiple on their website, defined as the ratio between the highest paid taxable earnings for the given year (including base salary, variable pay, bonuses, allowances and the cash value of any benefits-in-kind) and the median earnings figure of the whole of the authority’s workforce, including all part-time and seasonal staff. The measure must:
- Cover all the elements of remuneration that can be valued.
- Use the median earnings figure as the denominator, which should be that of all employees of the local authority on a fixed date each year, coinciding with reporting at the end of the financial year.
- Exclude changes in pension benefits, which due to their variety and complexity cannot be accurately included in a pay multiple disclosure.
St. Agnes Parish Council’s Pay Multiple as at 31st March 2025 is 1.90:1
These calculations include part-time employees’ total salaries as full-time equivalents, not pro rata.
St. Agnes Parish Council does not pay bonuses or benefits in kind to employees.
This means that the highest-paid post is 1.90 times the median full-time equivalent taxable earnings of the Council’s workforce (£30,029 median of the 16 FTE salary values c.LC1 15). For wider context, the Hutton Review of Fair Pay in the Public Sector recommended that public bodies should track, publish and explain their pay multiples over time, and noted that public-sector pay multiples were often observed in the region of 8:1 to 12:1. That broader observation is not a target and is not directly equivalent to the Local Government Transparency Code measure, which compares the highest paid taxable earnings with the median earnings of the workforce. However, it does provide context, and on that basis St. Agnes Parish Council’s ratio indicates a relatively low level of pay dispersion within the organisation.
Waste Contracts
The Council’s waste contracts are currently operated by:
Biffa Waste Services Ltd – recycling and general waste from administrative operations
Initial Hygiene – Clinical & Hazardous waste, including from public toilets
Cornwall Council – public litter and dog waste bins
Social Housing
St. Agnes Parish Council does not provide any social housing or own any social housing stock. For any queries of this nature, please visit Cornwall Council’s Housing webpage.
Trade Union Facility Time
St. Agnes Parish Council does not have any Trade Union Representatives. There are no relevant details to publish.
Fraud
There have been no cases of fraudulent activity investigated during the preceding 12-month period, and no staff have professional accreditation as counter fraud specialists.