Stockport Council News

April 2013:-

£53,134.66

What we paid Lex Autolease in March 2013:-

£186,144.16

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/stockport-town-hall-told-give-2991861

Stockport Council has been told to give our more free school dinners.

February 2013 – £8,675.65

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305711/Nick-Clegg-turns-Tories-accuses-squandering-millions-vanity-projects.html

What about the waste of money in LibDem-run-for-a-decade Stockport Council? £8,000 spent on a day at the races by Children’s Services under the dastardly Andrew Webb:-

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/waste-of-money.html

Money wasted on 5 star hotes, even in hop and a skip away Salford:-

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/often-5-star-hotels.html

Top of the range BMWs, Audi TTs and Mini Cooper Cabriolets, one third of which are given to council officers who don’t need a car to do their job:-

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/council-lease-cars.html

£31,000 pa spent on committee teas provided to councillors for meetings which often last only 10 minutes. Buy a sandwich or eat before you leave home.

Email received 12th March 2013 at 14.40

Dear Mrs Oliver,

I am writing in response to your request for information (ref FOI 6817).

The relevant Council Service(s) has searched for the requested information and our response is as follows/attached/enclosed.

Further to your FOI request I can confirm that a budget of £31,000 has been allocated for the provision of meals before evening Council and Committee meetings. Depending on the nature of the meeting, this may be a hot meal or a cold sandwich buffet meal.

The figure specifically for ‘Councillors Teas’ for this financial year is £15,638.

The Council intends to buy up property in Stockport Market. This would be fine if they had any sort of track record of successful regeneration. They don’t! They just keep borrowing in our name with no results.

http://democracy.stockport.gov.uk/documents/s25901/Notice%20of%20intention%20to%20hold%20an%20Executive%20meeting%20in%20Private%20-%20Strategic%20Property%20Acquisition%20in%20the%20.pdf