Coventry City Council has won the best staff travel policy award at the 2015 Employee Benefits Awards for its Mycar salary sacrifice scheme from Leasedrive.

The leasing company entered the local authority into the category for the most effective travel strategy for business and perk car drivers.

Jane Williams, payroll support and project specialist at Coventry City Council, who received the award, said: “Like all councils, motivating staff  while reducing the cost of delivering services is a fine balancing act and Mycar has proven an innovative way to achieve this and position us as an employer of choice.

"We have more than 7,700 eligible employees for the salary sacrifice car scheme and Mycar has already delivered significant savings to the council by way of reduced national insurance and pension contributions.

"Average emissions for cars ordered on the scheme are just 101g/km, 27.3g/km lower than the average CO2 output of ‘at work’ private cars they replaced, boosting our corporate social responsibility.”