The 6 “missing” pages of Cllr Tony Smith’s expenses claims shed more light on Lyndale School matters

The 6 “missing” pages of Cllr Tony Smith’s expenses claims shed more light on Lyndale School matters

The 6 “missing” pages of Cllr Tony Smith’s expenses claims shed more light on Lyndale School matters

                                                                                

As part of the 2013/14 audit of Wirral Council, I exercised a legal right to a copy of the councillors’ expenses forms. I have published what I received last month (which attracted much public interest), but a lot of pages were still not provided at that point. You can read the earlier nine pages for Councillor Tony Smith here.

The internal processes seem to be that the finance side of Wirral Council ask for these from Human Resources. Human Resources then ask for legal advice. The legal side of Wirral Council then recommend to redact officer names, registration numbers of councillors’ cars, payroll numbers, signatures and other information on these forms. Quite why that whole process takes over two months I’m not quite sure.

As many readers of this blog will know there was a call in of the Cabinet decision of September 4th on Lyndale School which happened during a five-hour public meeting on the evening of October 2nd 2014. The six pages of the Cabinet Member for Education’s expenses (Cllr Tony Smith) I requested in August 2014 but were only supplied to me this morning (17th October 2014).

It shows some meetings which may be of interest to the continuing public debate on Lyndale School. The last meeting with Alison McGovern MP is education related due to its location, however whether it is connected to Lyndale School or a different education matter I am unsure at this point. I include the original six pages below.

Wirral Council also provided me today with a further dozen or so pages of councillors expenses for other councillors that had also been missing from what I had been supplied with. I plan to publish these in the near future.

Date | Description | Departure location | Return time and location| No of miles| Rate

17.5.13 | Visits to Foxfield and Elleray Park School – in role of Cabinet Member | Home | | 10 | 0.40p
9.8.13 | Meeting re Lyndale School with Director + Officers / Hamilton Building | Home | Hamilton | 10 | 0.40p
13.9.13 | Meeting ?? ?? M.P. Alison McGovern and officers / Hamilton | Home | Hamilton | 10 | 0.40p

Cllr Tony Smith expenses claim 2013 page 1 of 6
Cllr Tony Smith expenses claim 2013 page 1 of 6
Cllr Tony Smith expenses claim 2013 page 2 of 6
Cllr Tony Smith expenses claim 2013 page 2 of 6
Cllr Tony Smith expenses claim 2013 page 3 of 6
Cllr Tony Smith expenses claim 2013 page 3 of 6
Cllr Tony Smith expenses claim 2013 page 4 of 6
Cllr Tony Smith expenses claim 2013 page 4 of 6
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Cllr Tony Smith expenses claim 2013 page 5 of 6
Cllr Tony Smith expenses claim 2013 page 6 of 6
Cllr Tony Smith expenses claim 2013 page 6 of 6

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