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Alberta Premier Alison Redford, facing escalating criticism over her office’s refusal to say how much severance was paid to Redford’s former chief-of-staff, ordered an about-face Thursday.

In a news release, Redford said she has directed Don Scott, the associate minister of accountability, transparency and transformation, “to put a policy in place that expands the proactive disclosure of salary and severance information for senior government employees.”

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The policy would be retroactive to the time Redford’s current government was sworn in after the last provincial election in April 2012.

Redford said she wants Scott’s work to be completed by the end of the year.

The new disclosure policy’s time frame would include the severance payout to Redford’s former chief-of-staff, Stephen Carter.

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Redford’s announcement came a day after Global TV reported that bureaucrats in her office were defying a direction from Alberta’s privacy commissioner to reveal how much Carter was paid when he left Redford’s office in the spring of 2012.