ALMOST 60% of Scotland’s councillors have a second job including three posties, two hypnotists and a vet, a data investigation by The National has found.
We previously told how more than 120 councillors are employed as staffers for MSPs and MPs, with 26 out of 31 local authorities (83%) in our analysis having at least one representative taking on an additional party role.
The National created a data set from information contained in the registers of interests of 1192 councillors from 31 local authorities. Falkirk is excluded as the information is not available on the authority’s website, and they did not respond to our request for clarification.
