Cost of Scarborough Mayor Regalia Revealed

Saturday, 2 August 2025 06:00

The cost around the regalia for Scarborough's new mayor have been made public.

It's £10,000.

The new town council's mayor is Councillor Thomas Murray.

His Reform UK colleague Councillor William Stuart says they're trying to keep costs down:

" Regarding the £10,000 on civic regalia, that is an overestimate, we're being cautious.

"It includes insurance for the civic regalia, which is worth a great deal of money, that will require valuing, in order to insure it and traditionally that would require the valuer to take a percentage of the cost similarly to which they do with wills.

"Now what we've managed to do is actually get a fixed rate, and we're trying to bear down on that fixed rate to bring that figure right down. And I think we really all managed to do that, but we're working hard."

Councillor Stuart added savings have been made elsewhere and the figure is an overestimate:

"It's in order that we can evaluate, in order, we can insure it, but we will hopefully come well, within that and I will just point out that there was £5,000 that was allocated to the College of Arms and we've managed to bring down that figure through negotiation and careful discussion to zero.

"So we do like to take our fiscal responsibility seriously."

The news comes after a national debate over the mayor's 600% budget rise which even saw Reform Leader Nigel Farage questioned.

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