PAT general secretary Philip Parkin said it was 'good news' the Government had again agreed to allow councils further scope for capitalisation of their assets.
Capitalisation is a process in which local authorities are able to borrow against their assets over several years.
The Government issued £500m of capitalisation directions for equal pay back-pay in September 2007 to 46 local authorities in England, allowing councils to settle claims from 100,000 employees, mainly women. In 2006-07 there were 35 equal pay capitalisation applications approved by Government, totalling £160.5m.
Mr Parkin said, 'We need to move more quickly than we have been. In the authorities where we have been involved and where they have offered payments to members, it has worked quite well. But there are still a lot of authorities that have not made progress and we hope this speeds that process up.'
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