Wednesday 1 June 2011

After the Lord Mayor's Show

Cornwall Council has just updated its defence of its spending card history, following Saturday's Daily Telegraph revelations. One futher question bound to be asked is how much it is costing, in terms of officer time, to explain hundreds of individual spending decisions over the past three years. I wonder if this is what Eric Pickles had in mind when he declared that publication of all spending decisions over £500 was the best way to make councils more responsible.

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