FOI release

S151 Officer designation

Case reference FOI2026/01607

Received 9 October 2026

Published 2 November 2026

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information about your council's statutory chief finance officer (the officer designated under section 151 of the Local Government Act 1972, the s151 officer). 1. For the period 1 April 2020 to the date of your response, a list of every separate period during which a person held the s151 officer designation, including on an acting, interim or temporary basis. For each period please give: (a) the job title held; (b) the date the designation began; (c) the date it ended, or 'current'; (d) the employment basis, using one of: permanent employee; fixed-term employee; interim engaged through an agency or consultancy; secondment from another organisation; shared and, if so, with which other organisation; other (please specify). If you can disclose the postholder's name in line with your usual practice for senior officers, please include it; if not, job title is sufficient. Please provide the information as a spreadsheet (.xlsx or .csv) if possible. If you think any part of this request would exceed the cost limit, please advise how I could narrow it.

Response

Director of Finance, Growth and Delivery (s151 Officer)
S151 Designation began prior to April 2020 and he is still currently s151
Full Time Permanent Employee
Mr Lee Colyer

Documents

There are no documents for this release.

This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.