Stephen Curran

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Stephen Curran, City Treasurer of Glasgow City Council

Balancing the Books

A member of Scottish Labour Party and Councillor for Newlands/Auldburn, Stephen Curran is City Treasurer. He has the unenviable task of running a council with £1.3billion debt which pays £90million on interest every year. Added to this, the council is facing the huge expenses of hosting the Commonwealth Games 2014 (expected to cost £373m, with the stadium alone estimated at £98m),[1] and the M74 extension which, in February 2008, look set to cost £657m.[2]


In the Register of Councillors' Interests, Stephen Curran declares the following:

Director of Culture and Sport Glasgow
Director of Culture and Sport Glasgow (Trading) CIC
Director of Streetwatch South CCTV Trust
Chair of Pollokshaws Settlement & Integration Network
Co-opted Member of New Shaws Housing Organisation Committee
Member of GMB Trade Union, The Fabian Society, Christian Socialist Movement, Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, Electoral Reform Society, Make Votes Count and Charter 88

Notes

  1. Gerry Braiden, Finance experts sign up for 2014 Games: Ernst and Young recruited to keep project on budget, The Herald, 17 March 2008, p.4.
  2. Magnus Gardham, 'M74 Go-ahead signals end to city snarl-ups: 60 year wait over for link road but final bill may reach £657m', Daily Record, 15 February 2008, p.2.