HUGE salaries being taken home by council staff have been revealed.

Despite sweeping funding cuts across East London, the reduction of adult services and the closure of children's centres, councils are paying big remuneration packages to some staff.

Details have been released by the Tax Payers' Alliance which has criticised the high paying authorities. 

A remuneration package includes salary, and can include other benefits like bonuses.

In Redbridge twenty staff took home over £100k in the year 2013/14 and four pocketed over £150k.

Chief executive of the council Roger Hampson who will resign in June 2016 raked in £193,301 while the director of children’s services Patricia Reynolds earned £163,980.

Simon Barry, director of environmental and community services was given £163, 637 and John Powell the director of adult social services and housing was paid £162,944.

Amid calls for him to stand down over the town hall asbestos scandal, last year, in Waltham Forest the chief executive of the council, Martin Esom, pocketed £180,467.

Deputy chief executive for environment and regeneration, Shifa Mustafa, had £164,969 in her package.

Thirteen staff at the town hall took home more than £100,000

The figures were published in the annual ‘Town Hall Rich List’ by the Taxpayers’ Alliance, a guide to executive pay in councils throughout the UK.

Considering many councils are cutting back services, the Taxpayers’ Alliance said the figures raise questions over value for money - but the council says the group has painted a "misleading picture" by including pension contributions.

Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “Local authorities that are providing more for less and delivering council tax cuts clearly have talented people at the helm, but taxpayers living in poorly performing areas will be furious at the scale of some of these massive pay awards.

“After more than a decade of reckless spending and council tax hikes, local politicians now have to make necessary savings and the pay and perks for the town hall elite have to come under the spotlight.

 “We all deserve to know how our money is being spent, and taxpayers should have the right to decide if they are getting value for their money from public servants.”