Spending priorities

Published: 18 February, 2011

• AT a time of massive public expenditure cut backs how on earth can Conservative Westminster Council possibly justify the following recent spending: 

• £91,390 to The Bridge Media Training Ltd; 

• £32,870 to Mind Gym; 

• £4,320 to Heritage Cars Ltd; 

• £74,259 to Cornish King Bulb Growers and Windowflowers Ltd?  

Why is the city council spending £200,000 on media training, car hire and on flowers at a time of austerity? 

If this sort of expenditure is part of the routine activities of the city council then it makes a mockery of prudent budgetary control and the setting of sensible priorities. 

Why is it deemed more important to spend public money on this unnecessary back-office expenditure when vulnerable adults and children are being told that there is no money to support services on which they depend?

CLLR PAUL DIMOLDENBERG
Leader of the Labour Group