Shrewsbury and Atcham Council is to vote on whether its officers and staff should be asked to take a lie detector test after redundancy plans were leaked to the media.

The local authority’s standards committee made the recommendation that people who had seen a confidential report about the planned 15 job cuts be asked to take a lie test after three staff were named in the Shrewsbury Chronicle as being in line to lose their jobs.

A council spokesperson said there would be a vote next week, but the chief executive had recommended that the council should not approve the lie-test recommendation. "No further purpose will be achieved by having the tests and the point has already been made," she said.

The proposed cuts are still being decided.