Thursday 29 December 2011

Transparency in Local Government

As part of their effort to appear more transparent, Peterborough City Council publishes a monthly digest of all payments made by them to suppliers over £500.

At the time of writing, December 29th 2011, they have published numbers up until October 2011.

During that month, the following individual payments were made to Amtec Consulting:

Paid on 7th October 2011

2880.00
4368.00
5741.95
6494.40
21516.00
16197.60
8289.60
9451.20
22945.20
36000.54
24950.21
11067.00
49992.00
15876.00
47832.00
5040.00
4838.40
93271.92
16200.00
720.00
8910.00
30293.40
4395.60
27208.80
4770.00
11224.98
1008.00
16128.00
16926.00

Total: 524536.80


That half a million pounds is a typical monthly total for Amtec.

It's impossible to imagine what all these payments represent. You would have to be a fool to think that a request to PCC for some flesh on the bone would meet with anything other than obfustication and delay, by which time three more month's worth of payments would have been and gone west.

There is no transparency.

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