The cost to your council tax of gagging orders payments

The disclosure that over £500,000 has been spent by this Council in paying past employees to keep their mouths shut about issues around their leaving is an absolute disgrace... To gag what would have been embarrassing items showing incompetence sometimes of the Council and sometimes of the past employee seems just a way of avoiding the public knowing or asking questions.
One employee refused a payment of £70,000 so that they could talk about their treatment and try to clear their name after the tribunal....
so much for open Government!!!